On this day: 3 September
Events, births and deaths on 3 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Alison Lurie
- Births · Arun Kumar Chatterjee
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 931 · Deaths · Uda
- 1034 · Births · Go-Sanjō
- 1120 · Deaths · Blessed Gerard
Events · 25
- 36 BCEBattle of Naulochus — battle
- 301(Julian date)San Marino — sovereign state in southern Europe, enclaved within Italy
- 1260(Julian date)Battle of Ain Jalut — 1260 battle between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Empire
- 1650Battle of Dunbar — battle during the 1650 English invasion of Scotland
- 1651Battle of Worcester — 1651 final battle of the English Civil War
- 1777Battle of Cooch's Bridge — 1777 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1783Treaty of Paris (1783) — agreement ending the American Revolutionary War
- 1879Siege of the British Residency in Kabul — 1879 battle of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
- 1901flag of Australia — national flag of the Commonwealth of Australia
- 1924Jiangsu–Zhejiang War — 1924 war in China
- 1939Battle of the Atlantic — 1939 longest continuous military campaign in World War II
- 1943Operation Baytown — British invasion of Italy in 1943 during World War II
- 19501950 Italian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1950
- 1954First Taiwan Strait Crisis — 1954–1955 conflict between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China
- 1967Dagen H — Day in Sweden when the change from left-hand traffic to right-hand traffic occurred
- 1968China Television — Taiwanese television broadcasting company
- 1978Air Rhodesia Flight 825 — Passenger aircraft shot down in 1978
- 19871987 Burundian coup d'état — 1987 coup d'état in Burundi
- 1989Varig Flight 254 — 1989 plane crash of a Varig Boeing 737-241 in the Amazon jungle in Brazil
- 1989Cubana de Aviación Flight 9646 — aviation accident
- 1991Hamlet chicken processing plant fire — industrial accident
- 1997Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 — aviation accident in 1997
- 2010UPS Airlines Flight 6 — aviation accident in Dubai on 3 Sep. 2010
- 20152015 China Victory Day Parade — military parade in Beijing, China
- 20172017 North Korean nuclear test — hydrogen bomb test by North Korea on 3 September 2017
Births · 60
- 1695Pietro Locatelli — Italian Baroque composer and violinist (1695-1764)
- 1728Matthew Boulton — English manufacturer, industrialist, business partner of James Watt (1728–1809)
- 1781Eugène de Beauharnais — French statesman and military officer (1781–1824)
- 1814James Joseph Sylvester — English mathematician (1814-1897)
- 1829Adolf Fick — German-born physician and physiologist (1829-1901)
- 1851Olga Constantinovna of Russia — Queen of the Hellenes (1851–1926)
- 1856Louis Sullivan — American architect (1856-1924)
- 1869Fritz Pregl — Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)
- 1875Ferdinand Porsche — Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor (1875–1951)
- 1899Frank Macfarlane Burnet — Australian virologist (1899-1985)
- 1900Urho Kekkonen — eighth President of Finland (1900–1986)
- 1905Carl David Anderson — American physicist
- 1908Lev Pontryagin — Soviet mathematician (1908–1988)
- 1910Maurice Papon — French civil servant, Vichy collaborator, and war criminal (1910–2007)
- 1913Alan Ladd — American actor (1913–1964)
- 1928Gaston Thorn — Luxembourgish politician (1928–2007)
- 1932Eileen Brennan — American actress and singer (1932–2013)
- 1934Freddie King — American blues guitarist and singer (1934–1976)
- 1936Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — Tunisian politician
- 1938Ryōji Noyori — Japanese chemist (1938 - )
- 1940Eduardo Galeano — Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015)
- 1940Pauline Collins — British actress (1940–2025)
- 1941Sergei Dovlatov — Soviet writer (1941–1990)
- 1943Valerie Perrine — American actress (1943-2026)
- 1947Mario Draghi — Italian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy
Deaths · 60
- 264(Julian date)Sun Xiu — Emperor of Eastern Wu from 258 to 264
- 737(Julian date)Fujiwara no Umakai — Japanese noble (694-737)
- 863Umar al-Aqta — 9th-century ruler of the Arab emirate of Malatya
- 879Constantine — byzantine emperor from 868 to 879, son of Basil I
- 931(Julian date)Uda — Japanese emperor
- 1120(Julian date)Blessed Gerard — Founder of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
- 1301(Julian date)Alberto I della Scala — Italian noble
- 1313Anne of Bohemia — queen and princess of Bohemia, Duchess of Carinthia, Countess of Tyrol, Mistress of Carniola
- 1402Gian Galeazzo Visconti — first Duke of Milan (1351-1402)
- 1420Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany — Scottish royalty, Duke of Albany
- 1467(Julian date)Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress — consort of Frederick III (1434-1467)
- 1592Robert Greene — English author (1558-1592)
- 1634(Julian date)Edward Coke — English lawyer and judge; (c.1552-1634)
- 1653Claudius Salmasius — French classical scholar, writer and professor in Leiden (1588-1653)
- 1658(Julian date)Oliver Cromwell — English military and political leader (1599–1658)
- 1720Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway — British Army general
- 1729Jean Hardouin — French classical scholar (1646-1729)
- 1857John McLoughlin — founder of the Oregon Country
- 1862Honinbo Shusaku — Japanese professional Go player from the 19th century
- 1866(Julian date)Konstantin Flavitsky — Russian artist (1830–1866)
- 1877Adolphe Thiers — President of France from 1871 to 1873 (1797-1877)
- 1883Ivan Turgenev — Russian writer (1818–1883)
- 1914Albéric Magnard — French composer (1865-1914)
- 1932Zhang Zongchang — Chinese warlord (1881-1932)
- 1948Edvard Beneš — Czechoslovak politician (1884-1948)
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