September 3 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 3, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#241 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 3 birthdays
Louis Sullivan · American architect1856
Jean Jaurès · French/Occitan socialist leader1859
Ferdinand Porsche · Austrian-born German automotive engineer, inventor1875
Macfarlane Burnet · Australian virologist1899
Urho Kekkonen · Eighth President of Finland1900
Carl David Anderson · American physicist1905
Alan Ladd · American actor1913
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali · Tunisian politician1936
Ryōji Noyori · Japanese chemist1938
Eduardo Galeano · Uruguayan writer and journalist1940
Mario Draghi · Italian economist, academic, banker and politician1947
Guido Imbens · Dutch American econometrician1963
Charlie Sheen · American actor1965
Daron Acemoglu · Turkish-American economist and receiver of the 2024 Nobel Prize1967
Redfoo · American singer and rapper1975
Júlio César · Brazilian footballer1979
Garrett Hedlund · American actor1984
Jérôme Boateng · German association football player1988
Eileen Gu · American-born Chinese freestyle skier2003
Jack Dylan Grazer · American actor2003
On this day in history
1976Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
1987While he was abroad, Burundian president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed in a military coup d'état by Pierre Buyoya.
2001The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2016The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement.
1911A fire that started on Fraser's Million Dollar Pier destroys six to eight square blocks of Ocean Park, California.
1935On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
1936The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.
1941The mass expulsion of Soviet Germans from the Volga German ASSR began.
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