The 3d o September is the 246t day o the year (247t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 119 days bidin.
- 1856 - Louis Sullivan, American airchitect (d. 1924)
- 1859 - Jean Jaurès, French politeecian (d. 1914)
- 1869 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenie-Austrick chemist an medicinar (d. 1930)
- 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrick-German automotive ingineer (d. 1951)
- 1900 - Urho Kekkonen, Preses o Finland (d. 1986)
- 1905 - Carl David Anderson, American pheesicist (d. 1991)
- 1910 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1914 - Jimmy Delaney, Scots fitbawer (d. 1989)
- 1936 - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Preses o Tunisie (d. 2019)
- 1937 - Willie Bell, Scots fitbawer
- 1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist
- 1940 - Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan jurnalist an screiver (d. 2015)
- 1947 - Mario Draghi, umwhile Heid o the European Central Bank
- 1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik, umwhile Prime meenister o Norawa
- 1948 - Levy Mwanawasa, Preses o Zambie (d. 2008)
- 1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor
- 1970 - Gareth Southgate, Inglis fitbawer an coach
- 1977 - Olof Mellberg, Swadish fitbawer
- 1979 - Júlio César, Brazilian fitbawer
- 1982 - Sarah Burke, Canadian freestyle skier (d. 2012)
- 1986 - Shaun White, American snawbuirder
- 1988 - Jerome Boateng, German fitbawer
- 1993 - Dominic Thiem, Austrick tennis player
- 1994 - Chris Johnston, Scots fitbawer
- 1420 - Robert Stewart, Duke o Albany (b. 1340)
- 1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Inglis politeecian (b. 1599)
- 1883 - Ivan Turgenev, Roushie writer (b. 1818)
- 1918 - Margaret Todd, Scots medicinar (b. 1859)
- 1974 - James McCrae, Scots fitbawer (b. 1894)
- 1991 - Frank Capra, Italian-American filmmaker (b. 1897)
- 2007 - Steve Fossett, American businessman an aviator (b. 1944)
- 2012 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader (b. 1920)
- 2012 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b. 1957)