September 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 264 – Sun Xiu, Chinese emperor (b. 235)
• 863 – Umar al-Aqta, Arab emir of Malatya
• 1402 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Italian son of Galeazzo II Visconti (b. 1351)
• 1420 – Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1340)
• 1467 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1434)
• 1592 – Robert Greene, English author (b. 1558)
• 1634 – Edward Coke, English judge and politician (b. 1552)
• 1653 – Claudius Salmasius, French scholar (b. 1588)
• 1658 – Oliver Cromwell, English military leader and politician (b. 1599)
• 1662 – William Lenthall, English politician (b. 1591)
• 1720 – Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1648)
• 1729 – Jean Hardouin, French scholar (b. 1646)
• 1766 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (b. 1686)
• 1808 – John Montgomery, American politician (b. 1722)
• 1857 – John McLoughlin, Canadian businessman (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-Australian publisher, journalist, politician, and engineer (b. 1816)
• 1903 – Joseph Skipsey, English poet and songwriter (b. 1832)
• 1906 – Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovene writer (b. 1846)
• 1914 – Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
• 1929 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (b. 1840)
• 1936 – Nikita Balieff, Armenian puppeteer, director, and writer (b. 1876 or 1877)
• 1948 – Edvard Beneš, Czech politician, 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 lumberjack, and historian (b. 1893)
• 1967 – Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1903)
• 1967 – James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1967 – Francis Ouimet, American golfer (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 Wilson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
• 1974 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
• 1978 – Karin Molander, Swedish actress (b. 1889)
• 1980 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
• 1980 – Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1981 – Alec Waugh, English author (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
• 1985 – Johnny Marks, American songwriter (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Beryl Markham, English-Kenyan horse trainer, adventurer, and writer (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
• 1989 – Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
• 1991 – Frank Capra, American director (b. 1897)
• 1994 – James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., 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 critic (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress (b. 1973)
• 2002 – Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (b. 1919)
• 2002 – W. Clement Stone, American businessman, philanthropist, and author (b. 1902)
• 2003 – Paul Jennings Hill, American murderer (b. 1954)
• 2003 – Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (db. 1914)
• 2005 – R. S. R. Fitter, English botanist and author (b. 1913)
• 2005 – William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Carter Albrecht, American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians and Sorta) (b. 1973)
• 2007 – Syd Jackson, New Zealand activist and trade unionist (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Jane Tomlinson, English charity campaigner (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Donald Blakeslee, American pilot (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Noah Howard, American saxophonist (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Robert Schimmel, American comedian (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Griselda Blanco, Colombian-American drug lord (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Harold Dunaway, American race car driver (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Mahmoud El-Gohary, Egyptian footballer and coach (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Ottó Foky, Hungarian animator (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Sun Myung Moon, South Korean religious leader, author, and activist, founder of the Unification Church (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Ola Vincent, Nigerian economist and banker (b. 1925)