Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 3
Births
[edit]- 1499 - Diane de Poitiers, (pictured) mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
- 1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
- 1869 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
- 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
- 1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
- 1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
- 1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)
- 1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)
- 1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
- 1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor
- 1970 - Gareth Southgate, English footballer
- 1981 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter
Deaths
[edit]- 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
- 1883 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b. 1818)
- 1948 - Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
- 1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
- 1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
- 2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)