Anniversaries 3 August
Birth
![Al-Mahdi photo]()
the third Abbasid Caliph
744–785
![Antonio Cocchi photo]()
Italian physician and naturalist
1695–1758
![Thomas Francis Meagher photo]()
Irish nationalist & American politician
1823–1867
![George Francis FitzGerald photo]()
Irish physicist
1851–1901
![Henry Cuyler Bunner photo]()
American writer
1855–1896
![Stanley Baldwin photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1867–1947
![Habib Bourguiba photo]()
Tunisian politician
1903–2000
![Clifford D. Simak photo]()
American writer, journalist
1904–1988
![Maggie Kuhn photo]()
American activist
1905–1995
![Mark Kac photo]()
Polish-American mathematician
1914–1984
![Donald Griffin photo]()
American zoologist
1915–2003
![P. D. James photo]()
English crime writer
1920–2014
![Leon Uris photo]()
American novelist
1924–2003
![Anthony Sampson photo]()
British writer and journalist
1926–2004
![Steven Berkoff photo]()
English actor, playwright, author and director
1937
![Martha Stewart photo]()
American businesswoman, writer, television personality, and…
1941
![Steven Millhauser photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1943
![George Saitoti photo]()
Kenyan politician
1945–2012
![James Hetfield photo]()
American musician, songwriter and record producer
1963
![Tom Brady photo]()
American football quarterback
1977
![Sonny Bill Williams photo]()
New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer
1985
![Jules Bianchi photo]()
French motor racing driver
1989–2015
Death
![Étienne Bonnot de Condillac photo]()
French academic
1714–1780
![Richard Arkwright photo]()
textile entrepreneur; developer of the cotton mill
1732–1792
![Thorstein Veblen photo]()
American academic
1857–1929
![Joseph Conrad photo]()
Polish-British writer
1857–1924
![Edward B. Titchener photo]()
American psychologist
1867–1927
![Colette photo]()
1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
1873–1954
![Konstantin Rokossovsky photo]()
Soviet and Polish military commander
1896–1968
![Bertil Ohlin photo]()
Swedish economist and politician
1899–1979
![Beryl Markham photo]()
British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer
1902–1986
![Henri Cartier-Bresson photo]()
French photographer
1908–2004
![Chinmayananda Saraswati photo]()
Indian spiritual teacher
1916–1993
![Robert Conquest photo]()
poet and historian from England and the United States
1917–2015
![Roy Hilligenn photo]()
South African bodybuilder
1922–2008
![Lenny Bruce photo]()
comedian and social critic
1925–1966
![Flannery O’Connor photo]()
American novelist, short story writer
1925–1964
![Edward Whittemore photo]()
American writer
1933–1995
![William Sleator photo]()
Young adult science fiction novelist
1945–2011
