What happened on September 3 ?

1402 - Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (b. 1351)

1420 - Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland

1592 - Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)

1634 - Edward Coke, English colonial entrepreneur and jurist (d. 1634)

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, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount 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 delegate to the Continental Congress (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 author (b. 1818)

1893 - James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1816)

1903 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)

1914 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)

1948 - Edvard Bene?, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)

1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)

1963 - Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (b. 1907)

1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)

1967 - James Dunn, American actor (b. 1905)

1970 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach (b. 1913)

1970 - Alan Wilson, American blues musician, Canned Heat (b. 1943)

1974 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)

1980 - Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)

1981 - Alec Waugh, English writer (b. 1898)

1987 - Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)

1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)

1994 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (b. 1918)

1996 - Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Australian Aboriginal artist (b. 1910)

2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)

2001 - Thuy Trang, American actress (b. 1973)

2003 - Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)

2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)

2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)

RC Saints - Pope Gregory I, Saint Marinus

Qatar - Independence Day (from Great Britain, 1971)

San Marino - Foundation (301) by Saint Marinus

Taiwan/Republic of China - Armed Forces Day

Australia - Flag Day

Date of death of Papa, subject of The Temptations hit record Papa Was a Rolling Stone.

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