Anniversaries 3 August

Birth

Al-Mahdi3

the third Abbasid Caliph 744–785

Antonio Cocchi3

Italian physician and naturalist 1695–1758

Thomas Francis Meagher3

Irish nationalist & American politician 1823–1867

George Francis FitzGerald2

Irish physicist 1851–1901

Henry Cuyler Bunner2

American writer 1855–1896

Stanley Baldwin225

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867–1947

Rupert Brooke5

British poet 1887–1915

Regina Jonas10

rabbi 1902–1944

Habib Bourguiba29

Tunisian politician 1903–2000

Clifford D. Simak137

American writer, journalist 1904–1988

Maggie Kuhn1

American activist 1905–1995

Mark Kac17

Polish-American mathematician 1914–1984

Donald Griffin2

American zoologist 1915–2003

P. D. James26

English crime writer 1920–2014

Leon Uris6

American novelist 1924–2003

Tony Bennett1

American singer 1926

Anthony Sampson3

British writer and journalist 1926–2004

Steven Berkoff1

English actor, playwright, author and director 1937

Marvin Bell1

Poet 1937

Marlan Scully1

American physicist 1939

Martin Sheen14

American actor 1940

Martha Stewart3

American businesswoman, writer, television personality, and… 1941

Steven Millhauser2

American novelist and short story writer 1943

Morris Berman1

American historian 1944

George Saitoti1

Kenyan politician 1945–2012

Georges Abou Khazen1

Syrian bishop 1947

Linda Howard14

American writer 1950

Jim Stovall2

American writer 1958

Walter Kirn3

American novelist 1962

James Hetfield9

American musician, songwriter and record producer 1963

Chris Murphy19

American politician 1973

Tom Brady4

American football quarterback 1977

Sonny Bill Williams9

New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer 1985

Jules Bianchi2

French motor racing driver 1989–2015

Death

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac7

French academic 1714–1780

Richard Arkwright8

textile entrepreneur; developer of the cotton mill 1732–1792

Thorstein Veblen41

American academic 1857–1929

Joseph Conrad127

Polish-British writer 1857–1924

Edward B. Titchener2

American psychologist 1867–1927

Colette59

1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873–1954

Jacoba van Heemskerck18

Dutch painter 1876–1923

Ze'ev Jabotinsky5

Jewish leader 1880–1940

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV14

King of Mysore 1884–1940

Konstantin Rokossovsky5

Soviet and Polish military commander 1896–1968

Bertil Ohlin11

Swedish economist and politician 1899–1979

Beryl Markham7

British writer, aviator, adventurer, racehorse trainer 1902–1986

Henri Cartier-Bresson33

French photographer 1908–2004

Chinmayananda Saraswati118

Indian spiritual teacher 1916–1993

Robert Conquest4

poet and historian from England and the United States 1917–2015

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn120

Russian writer 1918–2008

Roy Hilligenn1

South African bodybuilder 1922–2008

Lenny Bruce19

comedian and social critic 1925–1966

Flannery O’Connor82

American novelist, short story writer 1925–1964

Edward Whittemore1

American writer 1933–1995

William Sleator1

Young adult science fiction novelist 1945–2011