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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of September 0301 | EVENT | San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus. |
| 3rd of September 0590 | EVENT | Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great). |
| 3rd of September 0863 | EVENT | Major Byzantine victory at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid. |
| 3rd of September 1189 | EVENT | Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster. |
| 3rd of September 1260 | EVENT | The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire. |
| 3rd of September 1650 | EVENT | Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark. |
| 3rd of September 1651 | EVENT | Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester : Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war. |
| 3rd of September 1658 | EVENT | Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England |
| 3rd of September 1666 | EVENT | The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London |
| 3rd of September 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: during the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time. |
| 3rd of September 1783 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| 3rd of September 1798 | EVENT | The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize. |
| 3rd of September 1802 | EVENT | William Wordsworth composes the sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. |
| 3rd of September 1803 | EVENT | English scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. |
| 3rd of September 1812 | EVENT | 24 settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana. |
| 3rd of September 1838 | EVENT | Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery. |
| 3rd of September 1855 | EVENT | Indian Wars: in Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 between men, women and children. |
| 3rd of September 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance. |
| 3rd of September 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23. |
| 3rd of September 1874 | EVENT | The congress of the state of Mexico elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juarez". |
| 3rd of September 1875 | EVENT | The first official game of Polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British Ranchers". |
| 3rd of September 1878 | EVENT | Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. |
| 3rd of September 1914 | EVENT | William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule. |
| 3rd of September 1925 | EVENT | USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne. |
| 3rd of September 1933 | EVENT | Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m). |
| 3rd of September 1935 | EVENT | Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph |
| 3rd of September 1939 | EVENT | World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies. |
| 3rd of September 1941 | EVENT | The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs. |
| 3rd of September 1942 | EVENT | World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva, in present-day Belarus. |
| 3rd of September 1944 | EVENT | Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving three days later. |
| 3rd of September 1945 | EVENT | Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2. |
| 3rd of September 1950 | EVENT | "Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix. |
| 3rd of September 1951 | EVENT | The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network. |
| 3rd of September 1954 | EVENT | The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy. |
| 3rd of September 1954 | EVENT | The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. |
| 3rd of September 1967 | EVENT | Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight. |
| 3rd of September 1971 | EVENT | Qatar becomes an independent state |
| 3rd of September 1976 | EVENT | Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars. |
| 3rd of September 1987 | EVENT | In a coup d'etat in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya. |
| 3rd of September 1994 | EVENT | Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. |
| 3rd of September 1997 | EVENT | A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64. |
| 3rd of September 1999 | EVENT | An 87-automobile pile-up happens on Highway 401 freeway just East of Windsor, Ontario, Canada after an unusually thick fog from Lake St. Clair. |
| 3rd of September 2004 | EVENT | Beslan school hostage crisis : day 3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children. |
| 3rd of September 1034 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Sanjo of Japan (d. 1073) |
| 3rd of September 1499 | BIRTHDAY | Diane de Poitiers, French noblewoman and mistress of King Henry II of France (d. 1566) |
| 3rd of September 1568 | BIRTHDAY | Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634) |
| 3rd of September 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (d. 1751) |
| 3rd of September 1693 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Radclyffe, British politician (d. 1746) |
| 3rd of September 1695 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764) |
| 3rd of September 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784) |
| 3rd of September 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808) |
| 3rd of September 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Josephine de Beauharnais and adoptive son of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1824) |
| 3rd of September 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871) |
| 3rd of September 1811 | BIRTHDAY | John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure (d. 1886) |
| 3rd of September 1820 | BIRTHDAY | George Hearst, American businessman, father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891) |
| 3rd of September 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Emmett, England cricketer (d. 1904) |
| 3rd of September 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (d. 1909) |
| 3rd of September 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece (d. 1926) |
| 3rd of September 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Sullivan, American architect (d. 1924) |
| 3rd of September 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Stewart, South African cricketer (d. 1913) |
| 3rd of September 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1930) |
| 3rd of September 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951) |
| 3rd of September 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Douglas, England cricketer and boxer (d. 1930) |
| 3rd of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Christian, American trumpeter (d. 1973) |
| 3rd of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Benson, American writer (d. 1972) |
| 3rd of September 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985) |
| 3rd of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician (d. 1986) |
| 3rd of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Dobb, British economist (d. 1976) |
| 3rd of September 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Chapman, England cricketer (d. 1961) |
| 3rd of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (d. 1959) |
| 3rd of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991) |
| 3rd of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | John Mills, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1972) |
| 3rd of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist (d. 1977) |
| 3rd of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988) |
| 3rd of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of September 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Mammes, American cyclist (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964) |
| 3rd of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Stanky, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of September 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Wagner, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of September 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Les Medley, English footballer (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Higgins, American reporter and war correspondent, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1966) |
| 3rd of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (d. 1971) |
| 3rd of September 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Mort Walker, American cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) |
| 3rd of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bengt Lindstrom, Swedish outdoor artist (d. 2008) |
| 3rd of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Shoista Mullojonova, Tajikistani Shashmakom singer (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Thompson, American singer (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Papas, Greek actress |
| 3rd of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Lurie, American novelist |
| 3rd of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg politician, 8th Prime Minister of Luxembourg and 7th President of the European Commission (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Armand Vaillancourt, Canadian sculptor and painter |
| 3rd of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Cherry Wilder, New Zealand science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 2002) |
| 3rd of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Albert DeSalvo, American serial killer (accused to be the "Boston Strangler") (d. 1973) |
| 3rd of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Motta, American basketball coach |
| 3rd of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Eileen Brennan, American actress |
| 3rd of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tompall Glaser, American singer |
| 3rd of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Basil Butcher, West Indian cricketer |
| 3rd of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie King, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1976) |
| 3rd of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Clasen, Canadian offroad racer |
| 3rd of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia |
| 3rd of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Pilar Pallete, Peruvian actress and third wife of American movie star John Wayne |
| 3rd of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 3rd of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Caryl Churchill, English playwright |
| 3rd of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist |
| 3rd of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Collins, English actress |
| 3rd of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Shrapnel, English actor |
| 3rd of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Al Jardine, American guitarist (The Beach Boys) |
| 3rd of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Perrine, American actress |
| 3rd of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Lister, English footballer |
| 3rd of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kjell Magne Bondevik, Norwegian politician |
| 3rd of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Bell, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy) |
| 3rd of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Fotis Kouvelis, Greek lawyer and politician |
| 3rd of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (d. 2008) |
| 3rd of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Pekerman, Argentine football manager |
| 3rd of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, Cypriot-born 129th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Pinnick, American bassist and singer (King's X) |
| 3rd of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Denys Hobson, South African cricketer |
| 3rd of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, French film director |
| 3rd of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Jones, English guitarist (Sex Pistols) |
| 3rd of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Pat McGeown, Northern Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member (d. 1996) |
| 3rd of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Garth Ancier, American television executive |
| 3rd of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Cureton, American basketball player |
| 3rd of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Merritt Butrick, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Costas Mandylor, Australian actor |
| 3rd of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mubarak Ghanim, United Arab Emirates footballer |
| 3rd of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Lynn, American porn star |
| 3rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Spike Feresten, American television writer |
| 3rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Curry, American Internet entrepreneur and MTV VJ |
| 3rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer |
| 3rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Holt McCallany, American actor |
| 3rd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Rhodes, English actor |
| 3rd of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Sheen, American actor |
| 3rd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian politician |
| 3rd of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Gatling, American basketball player |
| 3rd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Baumbach, American film director |
| 3rd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model, professional wrestler and valet (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | John Fugelsang, American actor |
| 3rd of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | George Lynch, American basketball player |
| 3rd of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Glick, American United Airlines Flight 93 passenger (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth Southgate, English footballer |
| 3rd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chabeli Iglesias, Spanish journalist |
| 3rd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kiran Desai, Indian writer |
| 3rd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor St. John, American actor |
| 3rd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Boudrias, Canadian short track speed skater |
| 3rd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Straka, Czech ice hockey player |
| 3rd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Estrada, Spanish model and actress |
| 3rd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Zita Urbonaite, Lithuanian road cyclist (d. 2008) |
| 3rd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer |
| 3rd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Paige, American singer-songwriter |
| 3rd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Stoudamire, American basketball player |
| 3rd of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Clare Kramer, American actress |
| 3rd of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rahul Sanghvi, Indian cricketer |
| 3rd of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cristobal Huet, French ice hockey player |
| 3rd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Jones, American actress |
| 3rd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor |
| 3rd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jevon Kearse, American football player |
| 3rd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Olof Mellberg, Swedish footballer |
| 3rd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rui Marques, Angolan footballer |
| 3rd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Robertson, American baseball player |
| 3rd of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Valfar, Norwegian vocalist (Windir) (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Curtis, English footballer |
| 3rd of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Moor, English ten-pin bowler |
| 3rd of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Michal Rozsival, Czech ice hockey player |
| 3rd of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Wechsler, American actor |
| 3rd of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tomo Milicevic, Bosnian-born American guitarist (30 Seconds to Mars) |
| 3rd of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany Chapman, English actress |
| 3rd of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | The B.G., American rapper |
| 3rd of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jason McCaslin ("Cone"), Canadian bassist (Sum 41) |
| 3rd of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ruben Bilos, Argentinian footballer |
| 3rd of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jennie Finch, American softball player |
| 3rd of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fearne Cotton, British television presenter |
| 3rd of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew McMahon, American singer and songwriter |
| 3rd of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kaori Natori, Japanese singer and model |
| 3rd of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tiago Rannow, Brazilian footballer |
| 3rd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Augusto Farfus, Brazilian racing driver |
| 3rd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Hunt, English footballer |
| 3rd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Woods, American actress |
| 3rd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus McCauley, American football player |
| 3rd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player |
| 3rd of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Garrett Hedlund, American actor |
| 3rd of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Carson, English footballer |
| 3rd of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kelvin Wilson, English footballer |
| 3rd of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun White, American snowboarder and skateboarder |
| 3rd of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Fountain, English actor |
| 3rd of September 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Rina Koike, Japanese junior idol |
| 3rd of September 0264 | DEATH | Sun Xiu, third emperor of Eastern Wu |
| 3rd of September 0863 | DEATH | Umar al-Aqta, Emir of Melitene (birth year unknown) |
| 3rd of September 1402 | DEATH | Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (Born 1351) |
| 3rd of September 1420 | DEATH | Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland (Born c. 1340) |
| 3rd of September 1592 | DEATH | Robert Greene, English writer (Born 1558) |
| 3rd of September 1634 | DEATH | Edward Coke, English jurist and Member of Parliament (Born 1552) |
| 3rd of September 1653 | DEATH | Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (Born 1588) |
| 3rd of September 1658 | DEATH | Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (Born 1599) |
| 3rd of September 1662 | DEATH | William Lenthall, English politician (Born 1591) |
| 3rd of September 1720 | DEATH | Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French soldier and diplomat (Born 1648) |
| 3rd of September 1722 | DEATH | Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks (Born 1646) |
| 3rd of September 1729 | DEATH | Jean Hardouin, French scholar (Born 1646) |
| 3rd of September 1766 | DEATH | Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (Born 1686) |
| 3rd of September 1808 | DEATH | John Montgomery, American Continental congressman (Born 1722) |
| 3rd of September 1857 | DEATH | John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (Born 1784) |
| 3rd of September 1860 | DEATH | Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (Born 1804) |
| 3rd of September 1866 | DEATH | Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (Born 1830) |
| 3rd of September 1883 | DEATH | Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist and playwright (Born 1818) |
| 3rd of September 1886 | DEATH | William W. Snow, American politician (Born 1812) |
| 3rd of September 1893 | DEATH | James Harrison, Scottish-born Australian newspaper printer, journalist, politician and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration (Born 1816) |
| 3rd of September 1903 | DEATH | Joseph Skipsey, British poet (Born 1832) |
| 3rd of September 1914 | DEATH | Alberic Magnard, French composer (Born 1865) |
| 3rd of September 1936 | DEATH | Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impresario (Born 1876 or 1877) |
| 3rd of September 1948 | DEATH | Edvard Benes, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (Born 1884) |
| 3rd of September 1954 | DEATH | Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (Born 1887) |
| 3rd of September 1961 | DEATH | Robert E. Gross, American businessman (Born 1897) |
| 3rd of September 1962 | DEATH | E. E. Cummings, American poet (Born 1894) |
| 3rd of September 1963 | DEATH | Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (Born 1907) |
| 3rd of September 1964 | DEATH | Stewart Holbrook, American writer (Born 1893) |
| 3rd of September 1967 | DEATH | James Dunn, American actor (Born 1905) |
| 3rd of September 1967 | DEATH | Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman(Born1893) |
| 3rd of September 1968 | DEATH | Isabel Withers, American actress (Born 1896) |
| 3rd of September 1969 | DEATH | John Lester, American cricketer (Born 1871) |
| 3rd of September 1970 | DEATH | Vince Lombardi, American football coach (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of September 1970 | DEATH | Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American singer and gutarist (Canned Heat) (Born 1943) |
| 3rd of September 1974 | DEATH | Harry Partch, American composer (Born 1901) |
| 3rd of September 1980 | DEATH | Dirch Passer, Danish actor (Born 1926) |
| 3rd of September 1980 | DEATH | Duncan Renaldo, American actor (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of September 1981 | DEATH | Alec Waugh, English writer (Born 1898) |
| 3rd of September 1983 | DEATH | Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (Born 1926) |
| 3rd of September 1985 | DEATH | Johnny Marks, American singer (Born 1909) |
| 3rd of September 1986 | DEATH | Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer, adventurer, aviatrix and memoir writer (Born 1902) |
| 3rd of September 1987 | DEATH | Morton Feldman, American composer (Born 1926) |
| 3rd of September 1989 | DEATH | Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (Born 1953) |
| 3rd of September 1991 | DEATH | Frank Capra, American film director (Born 1897) |
| 3rd of September 1994 | DEATH | Major Lance, American singer (Born 1939) |
| 3rd of September 1994 | DEATH | James T. Aubrey, American television executive (Born 1918) |
| 3rd of September 1994 | DEATH | Billy Wright, English footballer (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of September 1996 | DEATH | Emily Kngwarreye, Australian painter (Born 1910) |
| 3rd of September 2000 | DEATH | Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (Born 1914) |
| 3rd of September 2001 | DEATH | Pauline Kael, American film critic (Born 1919) |
| 3rd of September 2001 | DEATH | Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born American actress (Born 1973) |
| 3rd of September 2002 | DEATH | Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (Born 1919) |
| 3rd of September 2002 | DEATH | W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (Born 1902) |
| 3rd of September 2003 | DEATH | Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (Born 1954) |
| 3rd of September 2005 | DEATH | William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of September 2005 | DEATH | R. S. R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of September 2007 | DEATH | Syd Jackson, New Zealand Maori activist and trade unionist (Born 1939) |
| 3rd of September 2007 | DEATH | Carter Albrecht, American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians) (Born 1973) |
| 3rd of September 2007 | DEATH | Steve Ryan, American actor (Born 1947) |
| 3rd of September 2007 | DEATH | Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (Born 1964) |
| 3rd of September 2008 | DEATH | Donald Blakeslee, American World War II aviator (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of September 2010 | DEATH | Noah Howard, American jazz musician (Born 1943) |
| 3rd of September 2010 | DEATH | Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian (Born 1950) |