Deaths on 3 September
2000s
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun
2024
Scottish hereditary peer (1930β2024)
Wayne Graham
2024
American baseball player and coach (1936β2024)
Charley Johnson
2024
American football player (1938β2024)
Walter Becker
2017
American musician, songwriter, and record producer (1950β2017)
John Ashbery
2017
American poet (1927β2017)
Adrian Cadbury
2015
British rower and businessman (1929β2015)
Judy Carne
2015
British actress (1939β2015)
Carter Lay
2015
American businessman
Zhang Zhen (general)
2015
Chandra Bahadur Dangi
2015
Nepali man; shortest man in recorded history (1939β2015)
Aarno Raninen
2014
Finnish musician
A. P. Venkateswaran
2014
Indian diplomat
Ralph M. Holman
2013
American judge
Pedro Ferriz Santa Cruz
2013
Mexican radio and television presenter
JosΓ© RamΓ³n Larraz
2013
Spanish film director (1929β2013)
Janet Lembke
2013
American author and translator (1933β2013)
Don Meineke
2013
American basketball player
Lewis Morley
2013
Photographer (1925β2013)
Griselda Blanco
2012
Colombian drug lord (1943β2012)
Harold Dunaway
2012
American stock car and sprint car driver
Michael Clarke Duncan
2012
American actor (1957β2012)
List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (J)
2012
Sun Myung Moon
2012
Korean religious leader (1920β2012)
Charlie Rose (politician)
2012
American politician (1939β2012)
Noah Howard
2010
American jazz musician
Robert Schimmel
2010
American comedian (1950β2010)
Donald Blakeslee
2008
United States Air Force officer (1917β2008)
Carter Albrecht
2007
American musician
Syd Jackson (MΔori activist)
2007
New Zealand activist
Jane Tomlinson
2007
Deceased charity sporting fundraiser
Steve Fossett
2007
American businessman, aviator, sailor, and adventurer (1944β2007)
R. S. R. Fitter
2005
British naturalist & author (1913β2005)
William Rehnquist
2005
Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005
Alan Dugan
2003
American poet (1923β2003)
Rudolf Leiding
2003
Kenneth Hare
2002
Canadian climatologist (1919β2002)
W. Clement Stone
2002
American New Thought author (1902β2002)
Pauline Kael
2001
American film critic (1919β2001)
Edward Anhalt
2000
American screenwriter
1900s
Emma Bailey
1999
American auctioneer and author
Emily Kam Kngwarray
1996
Aboriginal Australian artist (1910β1996)
Mary Adshead
1995
English painter, muralist, illustrator, designer (1904β1995)
James T. Aubrey
1994
American media executive (1918β1994)
Billy Wright (footballer, born 1924)
1994
English footballer (1924β1994)
David Brown (entrepreneur)
1993
English entrepreneur (1904β1993)
Frank Capra
1991
Italian-born American film director (1897β1991)
Gaetano Scirea
1989
Italian footballer (1953β1989)
Ferit Melen
1988
14th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1972 to 1973
Morton Feldman
1987
American composer (1926β1987)
Johnny Marks
1985
American songwriter (1909β1985)
Alec Waugh
1981
British novelist (1898β1981)
Barbara O'Neil
1980
American actress (1910β1980)
Duncan Renaldo
1980
Romanian-born American actor (1904β1980)
Gianni Vella
1977
Former Maltese artist
Harry Partch
1974
American composer (1901β1974)
Vasil Gendov
1970
Bulgarian actor, film director and screenwriter (1891β1970)
Vince Lombardi
1970
American football coach (1913β1970)
Alan Wilson (musician)
1970
American blues rock musician (1943β1970)
John Lester
1969
American cricketer
Francis Ouimet
1967
American amateur golfer
Louis MacNeice
1963
Irish poet and playwright (1907β1963)
E. E. Cummings
1962
American poet and author (1894β1962)
Robert E. Gross (businessman)
1961
American businessman
Marika Kotopouli
1954
Greek actress (1887β1954)
Edvard BeneΕ‘
1948
Czechoslovak politician (1884β1948)
John Lumsden
1944
Irish physician, founder of the St John Ambulance Brigade Ireland
Will James (artist)
1942
Canadian-American artist and writer (1892β1942)
SΓ©raphine Louis
1942
French painter
Rafailo MomΔiloviΔ
1941
Serbian Orthodox saint
Nikita Balieff
1936
Russian Armenian born vaudevillian, stage performer, writer, impresario and director
John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey
1929
British lawyer, judge and politician (1840β1929)
AlbΓ©ric Magnard
1914
French composer (1865β1914)
MihΓ‘ly Kolossa
1906
Slovene ploughman and writer (1846β1906)
Evelyn Abbott
1901
English writer and classical scholar (1843β1901)
1800s
James Harrison (engineer)
1893
Scottish Victorian politician and engineer (1816 β 1893)
William W. Snow
1886
American politician
Ivan Turgenev
1883
Russian writer (1818β1883)
Adolphe Thiers
1877
President of France from 1871 to 1873
Konstantin Flavitsky
1866
Russian painter
John McLoughlin
1857
Hudson's Bay Company figure in Oregon (1784β1857)
John Montgomery (Continental Congress)
1808
American politician
Before 1800
Archibald Bower
1766
Scottish historian
Jean Hardouin
1729
French classical scholar (1646β1729)
Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway
1720
British Army general (1648β1720)
Oliver Cromwell
1658
English military and political leader (1599β1658)
Claudius Salmasius
1653
French classical scholar, writer and professor in Leiden (1588β1653)
Edward Coke
1634
English lawyer and judge (1552β1634)
Jean Richardot
1609
Flemish statesman and diplomat
Robert Greene (dramatist)
1592
English author (1558β1592)
Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress
1467
Holy Roman Empress from 1452 to 1467
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany
1420
Scottish prince and statesman (died 1420)
Gian Galeazzo Visconti
1402
First duke of Milan (1351β1402)
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter
1400
English nobleman (c. 1352β1400)
Joanikije II
1354
Serbian Archbishop and first Serbian Patriarch
Anne of Bohemia (1290β1313)
1313
Queen of Bohemia (1306, 1307β1310)
Alberto I della Scala
1301
Jacob of OrlΓ©ans
1189
12th-century Jewish scholar
Blessed Gerard
1120
Founder of the Knights Hospitaller
Emperor Uda
931
Emperor of Japan from 887 to 897
Umar al-Aqta
863
Arab Emir of Malatya from the 830s to 863
Xue Ju
618
Founding emperor of the state of Qin from 617 to 618
Sun Xiu
264
Emperor of Eastern Wu from 258 to 264