Anniversaries 3 October

Birth

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke9

English politician 1554–1628

George Bancroft21

American historian and statesman 1800–1891

Allan Kardec13

systematizer of Spiritism 1804–1869

Oliver Cowdery10

American Mormon leader 1806–1850

Mikhail Lermontov34

Russian writer, poet and painter 1814–1841

Timothy Thomas Fortune1

American writer and activist 1856–1928

Pierre Bonnard24

French painter and printmaker 1867–1947

Barbara Drake1

British politician 1876–1963

Alain-Fournier1

French writer 1886–1914

Walter Warlimont8

German general 1894–1976

Louis Aragon3

French poet, novelist and editor 1897–1982

Thomas Wolfe51

American writer 1900–1938

Charles J. Pedersen1

American organic chemist 1904–1989

Ellsworth Wareham1

1914–2018

James Herriot11

veterinary surgeon and writer 1916–1995

José Hermano Saraiva6

Historian, Jurist, Politician 1919–2012

James M. Buchanan5

American economist 1919–2013

Philippa Foot5

British philosopher 1920–2010

Gore Vidal163

American writer 1925–2012

Denise Scott Brown6

American architect 1931

Benjamin Boretz4

American composer 1934

Charles Duke1

American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and … 1935

Nancy Peters16

American writer and publisher 1936

Steve Reich3

American composer 1936

Red Pine1

American author, poet, and translator of poetry 1943

Yohji Yamamoto6

Japanese fashion designer 1943

Katharine Kerr4

American writer 1944

Pierre Deligne1

mathematician 1944

Carolyn Parrish2

Canadian politician 1946

John Perry Barlow30

American poet and essayist 1947–2018

Michael Medved1

American radio host 1948

Kathryn D. Sullivan1

American geologist and NASA astronaut 1951

Al Sharpton26

American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and telev… 1954

Stevie Ray Vaughan6

American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist 1954–1990

Joe Sacco2

Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the … 1960

Tommy Lee8

American drummer 1962

Mark Ames29

American writer and journalist 1965

Sara Zarr28

American children's writer 1970

Neve Campbell2

Canadian actress 1973

Talib Kweli11

American rapper 1975

John Hennigan29

American professional wrestler 1979

Zlatan Ibrahimović16

Swedish association football player 1981

Tessa Thompson2

American actresse 1983

Ashlee Simpson3

American singer, actress, dancer 1984

ASAP Rocky1

American rapper, singer record producer and music video dir… 1988

Morgan Mitchell1

Australian athlete 1994

Death

Francis of Assisi49

Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order 1182–1226

Robert Barclay2

Scottish Quaker apologist 1648–1690

Elizabeth Bath2

English poet 1776–1844

Orson Pratt15

Apostle of the LDS Church 1811–1881

Samuel Longfellow2

American clergyman 1819–1892

William Morris119

author, designer, and craftsman 1834–1896

E. W. Howe35

Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor 1853–1937

Эдгар Хоу3

1853–1937

Florence R. Sabin1

American medical scientist 1871–1953

Gustav Stresemann40

German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1878–1929

William Steig2

American cartoonist, children's illustrator and writer 1907–2003

Jean Anouilh9

French playwright 1910–1987

George Kubler15

American art historian 1912–1996

Woody Guthrie33

American singer-songwriter and folk musician 1912–1967

Louis Le Bailly1

Royal Navy admiral 1915–2010

Denis Healey32

British Labour Party politician and Life peer 1917–2015

Lucilla Andrews1

British romance novelist 1919–2006

Philippa Foot5

British philosopher 1920–2010

Akio Morita47

Japanese businessman 1921–1999

Leon M. Lederman6

American mathematician and physicist 1922–2018

Jalal Talabani19

Iraqi politician 1933–2017

Charles Fuller2

American playwright 1939–2022

Stefano Casiraghi1

Italian businessman 1960–1990