Anniversaries 3 October
Birth
![Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke photo]()
English politician
1554–1628
![George Bancroft photo]()
American historian and statesman
1800–1891
![Allan Kardec photo]()
systematizer of Spiritism
1804–1869
![Oliver Cowdery photo]()
American Mormon leader
1806–1850
![Mikhail Lermontov photo]()
Russian writer, poet and painter
1814–1841
![Timothy Thomas Fortune photo]()
American writer and activist
1856–1928
![Pierre Bonnard photo]()
French painter and printmaker
1867–1947
![Barbara Drake photo]()
British politician
1876–1963
![Louis Aragon photo]()
French poet, novelist and editor
1897–1982
![Thomas Wolfe photo]()
American writer
1900–1938
![Charles J. Pedersen photo]()
American organic chemist
1904–1989
![James Herriot photo]()
veterinary surgeon and writer
1916–1995
![José Hermano Saraiva photo]()
Historian, Jurist, Politician
1919–2012
![James M. Buchanan photo]()
American economist
1919–2013
![Philippa Foot photo]()
British philosopher
1920–2010
![Gore Vidal photo]()
American writer
1925–2012
![Charles Duke photo]()
American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and …
1935
![Nancy Peters photo]()
American writer and publisher
1936
![Red Pine photo]()
American author, poet, and translator of poetry
1943
![Yohji Yamamoto photo]()
Japanese fashion designer
1943
![John Perry Barlow photo]()
American poet and essayist
1947–2018
![Kathryn D. Sullivan photo]()
American geologist and NASA astronaut
1951
![Al Sharpton photo]()
American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and telev…
1954
![Stevie Ray Vaughan photo]()
American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist
1954–1990
![Joe Sacco photo]()
Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the …
1960
![Mark Ames photo]()
American writer and journalist
1965
![Sara Zarr photo]()
American children's writer
1970
![John Hennigan photo]()
American professional wrestler
1979
![Zlatan Ibrahimović photo]()
Swedish association football player
1981
![Ashlee Simpson photo]()
American singer, actress, dancer
1984
![ASAP Rocky photo]()
American rapper, singer record producer and music video dir…
1988
Death
![Francis of Assisi photo]()
Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order
1182–1226
![Robert Barclay photo]()
Scottish Quaker apologist
1648–1690
![Orson Pratt photo]()
Apostle of the LDS Church
1811–1881
![Samuel Longfellow photo]()
American clergyman
1819–1892
![William Morris photo]()
author, designer, and craftsman
1834–1896
![E. W. Howe photo]()
Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
1853–1937
![Florence R. Sabin photo]()
American medical scientist
1871–1953
![Gustav Stresemann photo]()
German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1878–1929
![William Steig photo]()
American cartoonist, children's illustrator and writer
1907–2003
![Jean Anouilh photo]()
French playwright
1910–1987
![George Kubler photo]()
American art historian
1912–1996
![Woody Guthrie photo]()
American singer-songwriter and folk musician
1912–1967
![Louis Le Bailly photo]()
Royal Navy admiral
1915–2010
![Denis Healey photo]()
British Labour Party politician and Life peer
1917–2015
![Lucilla Andrews photo]()
British romance novelist
1919–2006
![Philippa Foot photo]()
British philosopher
1920–2010
![Akio Morita photo]()
Japanese businessman
1921–1999
![Leon M. Lederman photo]()
American mathematician and physicist
1922–2018
![Jalal Talabani photo]()
Iraqi politician
1933–2017
![Charles Fuller photo]()
American playwright
1939–2022
![Stefano Casiraghi photo]()
Italian businessman
1960–1990
