Anniversaries 3 September

Birth

Matthew Boulton1

English industrialist, business partner of James Watt 1728–1809

Hannah Flagg Gould5

American writer 1788–1865

James Joseph Sylvester7

English mathematician 1814–1897

Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury5

British politician 1823–1921

Sarah Orne Jewett21

American novelist, short story writer and poet 1849–1909

Eugene Field15

American writer 1850–1895

Louis Sullivan33

American architect 1856–1924

J. M. E. McTaggart3

British philosopher 1866–1925

Mary Parker Follett25

American academic 1868–1933

Ferdinand Porsche2

German automobile designer 1875–1951

Solomon Lefschetz1

American mathematician 1884–1972

H. Richard Niebuhr18

American theologian 1894–1962

Frank Macfarlane Burnet3

Australian virologist 1899–1985

Carl David Anderson2

American scientist 1905–1991

Loren Eiseley9

US philosopher (1907-1977) 1907–1977

Dixy Lee Ray2

Seventh governor of Washington 1914–1994

Alison Lurie1

American novelist and academic 1926

Samir Amin6

Egyptian economist 1931–2018

Anthony de Mello135

Indian writer 1931–1987

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali6

Tunisian politician 1936–2019

Ryōji Noyori1

Japanese chemist 1938

Eduardo Galeano12

Uruguayan writer 1940–2015

Paul Loverde1

American Roman Catholic bishop 1940

Robert J. Gordon11

American economist 1940

Mick Farren1

English journalist, author and singer 1943–2013

Mario Draghi7

Italian banker and economist 1947

Gerd Gigerenzer4

German psychologist 1947

Maithripala Sirisena19

Sri Lankan politician, 7th President of Sri Lanka 1951

Neal Buckon1

American Roman Catholic bishop 1953

Brunello Cucinelli25

Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist 1953

Swapan Dasgupta8

Indian politician, journalist and columnist 1955

Sadhguru97

Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian 1957

Nancy Leigh DeMoss4

American radio host 1958

Dave Ramsey11

American financial advisor 1960

Malcolm Gladwell70

journalist and science writer 1963

Charlie Sheen36

American film and television actor 1965

Nao Bustamante2

American artist 1969

Maria Bamford18

American actress and comedian 1970

D. Harlan Wilson1

novelist 1971

Kiran Desai13

Indian author 1971

Chamath Palihapitiya2

American businessman 1976

Jenny Han226

American writer 1980

Paz de la Huerta9

American actress 1984

Shaun White2

American snowboarder and skateboarder 1986

Allie (wrestler)2

Canadian professional wrestler 1987

Death

Edward Coke18

English lawyer and judge 1552–1634

Robert Greene (dramatist)11

English author 1558–1592

Oliver Cromwell49

English military and political leader 1599–1658

Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben18

Austrian psychiatrist, poet and philosopher 1806–1849

Ivan Turgenev7

Russian writer 1818–1883

Thomas William Parsons4

American writer 1819–1892

Josiah Parsons Cooke1

Harvard mineralogist and chemist 1827–1894

Eva Dobell15

British poet 1876–1963

Vilhelm Ekelund9

Swedish poet 1880–1949

E.E. Cummings208

American poet 1894–1962

Frank Capra2

Sicilian-born American film director 1897–1991

Piero Sraffa1

Italian economist 1898–1983

Alec Waugh2

British novelist 1898–1981

W. Clement Stone21

American New Thought author 1902–2002

Rensis Likert16

American statistician 1903–1981

Louis MacNeice10

poet 1907–1963

Винс Ломбарди1

1913–1970

Vince Lombardi33

American football player, coach, and executive 1913–1970

Pauline Kael72

American film critic 1919–2001

Og Mandino38

American author 1923–1996

William H. Rehnquist32

Chief Justice of the United States 1924–2005

Morton Feldman13

American avant-garde composer 1926–1987

John Ashbery14

poet from the United States 1927–2017

Michael Hammer14

American academic 1948–2008

Michael Clarke Duncan1

American actor 1957–2012

Paul DiLascia44

American software developer 1959–2008

Thuy Trang5

Vietnamese actress (1973-2001) 1973–2001