The 246th day of the year, the 247th in a leap year

Born on 3 September

Every 3 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.

Star sign
VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
Birthstone
SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
Most common weekdays
Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 3 September. The marked arc is every position it has held on 3 September, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 3 September in any year.

Which weekday 3 September falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 3 September falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.

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How common a birthday 3 September is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,859 babies were born on 3 September in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 65th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.

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Born on 3 September

18 people born on 3 September, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Mario Draghi1947–Italian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali1936–2019Tunisian politician
Carl David Anderson1905–1991American physicist
Charlie Sheen1965–American actor
Jérôme Boateng1988–German association football player
Urho Kekkonen1900–1986eighth President of Finland
Eduardo Galeano1940–2015Uruguayan writer and journalist
Ryōji Noyori1938–Japanese chemist
Fritz Pregl1869–1930Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician
Ferdinand Porsche1875–1951Austrian-German automotive engineer, founder of Porsche
Macfarlane Burnet1899–1985Australian virologist
Júlio César1979–Brazilian footballer
Kiran Desai1971–Indian author
Louis Sullivan1856–1924American architect
Jean-Pierre Jeunet1953–French film director
Sadhguru1957–Indian yogi and author
Gareth Southgate1970–English professional football manager and former player
Irene Papas1929–2022Greek actress and singer

Died on 3 September

12 people who died on 3 September, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Ivan Turgenev1818–1883Russian writer
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658English military and political leader; died 3 September in the Julian calendar, which is 13 September in the Gregorian
Michael Clarke Duncan1957–2012American actor
Adolphe Thiers1797–1877President of France from 1871 to 1873
Frank Capra1897–1991Italian-born American film director
Edvard Beneš1884–1948Czechoslovak politician
E. E. Cummings1894–1962American author
Gaetano Scirea1953–1989Italian footballer
Sun Myung Moon1920–2012Korean religious leader
Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress1434–1467consort of Frederick III
Billy Wright1924–1994English footballer
John Ashbery1927–2017American poet

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