September 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 863 – Umar al-Aqta, Emir of Melitene (birth year unknown)
• 1402 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1351)
• 1420 – Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland (b. c. 1340)
• 1592 – Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
• 1634 – Edward Coke, English jurist and Member of Parliament (b. 1552)
• 1653 – Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (b. 1588)
• 1658 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
• 1662 – William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
• 1720 – Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
• 1722 – Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks (b. 1646)
• 1729 – Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
• 1766 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
• 1808 – John Montgomery, American Continental congressman (b. 1722)
• 1857 – John McLoughlin, Canadian trapper (b. 1784)
• 1860 – Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (b. 1804)
• 1866 – Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
• 1883 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist and playwright (b. 1818)
• 1886 – William W. Snow, American politician (b. 1812)
• 1893 – James Harrison, Scottish-born Australian newspaper printer, journalist, politician and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration (b. 1816)
• 1903 – Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
• 1914 – Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
• 1936 – Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impresario (b. 1876 or 1877)
• 1948 – Edvard Beneš, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
• 1954 – Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1961 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
• 1962 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (b. 1907)
• 1964 – Stewart Holbrook, American writer (b. 1893)
• 1967 – James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1967 – Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman(b.1893)
• 1968 – Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1969 – John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)
• 1970 – Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)
• 1970 – Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American singer and gutarist (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
• 1974 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
• 1980 – Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1981 – Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
• 1985 – Johnny Marks, American singer (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer, adventurer, aviatrix and memoir writer (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
• 1989 – Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
• 1991 – Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
• 1994 – James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Major Lance, American singer (b. 1939)
• 1994 – Billy Wright, English footballer (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Emily Kngwarreye, Australian painter (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born American actress (b. 1973)
• 2002 – Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (b. 1919)
• 2002 – W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
• 2003 – Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
• 2005 – R. S. R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
• 2005 – William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Carter Albrecht, American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians) (b. 1973)
• 2007 – Syd Jackson, New Zealand Māori activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Jane Tomlinson, British charity fund raiser (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Donald Blakeslee, American World War II aviator (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Noah Howard, American jazz musician (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian (b. 1950)