Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 3

Births

 * 1499 - Diane de Poitiers, (pictured) mistress of Henri II of France (d. 1566)
 * 1810 - Paul Kane, Canadian painter (d. 1871)
 * 1869 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
 * 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)
 * 1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
 * 1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
 * 1942 - Al Jardine, American musician (the Beach Boys)
 * 1955 - Steve Jones, English musician (Sex Pistols)
 * 1964 - Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur
 * 1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor
 * 1970 - Gareth Southgate, English footballer
 * 1981 - Fearne Cotton, British television presenter

Deaths

 * 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (b. 1599)
 * 1883 - Ivan Turgenev, Russian author (b. 1818)
 * 1948 - Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884)
 * 1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
 * 1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
 * 2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)