Famous people who died on August 3rd?

Answer 1

Born on August 3rd

LISTS

Name

Occupation

Birth

Death

Known for

Richard Adler

Songwriter

3-Aug-1921 Damn Yankees

Lance Alworth

Football

3-Aug-1940 NFL Hall of Famer, "Bambi"

Ian Bairnson

Guitarist

3-Aug-1953 Guitarist for The Alan Parsons Project

Stanley Baldwin

Head of State

3-Aug-1867 14-Dec-1947 UK Prime Minister three times

Rod Beck

Baseball

3-Aug-1968 23-Jun-2007 MLB relief pitcher

Angela Beesley

Business

3-Aug-1977 Co-Founder of Wikia, Inc.

Tony Bennett

Singer

3-Aug-1926 Left his heart in San Francisco

Steven Berkoff

Actor

3-Aug-1937 London Theatre Group

Tom Brady

Football

3-Aug-1977 New England Patriots QB

Sid Bream

Baseball

3-Aug-1960 Former MLB first baseman

Rupert Brooke

Poet

3-Aug-1887 23-Apr-1915 1914 and Other Poems

Butterbean

Boxing

03-Aug-1966 365 pound boxer in Jackass: The Movie

Hayden Carruth

Poet

3-Aug-1921 29-Sep-2008 Brothers, I Loved You All

Philip Casnoff

Actor

3-Aug-1949 Dr. Robert Jackson on Strong Medicine

Ingrid Caven

Actor

3-Aug-1938 In a Year of 13 Moons

Walter van Tilburg Clark

Novelist

3-Aug-1909 10-Nov-1971 The Ox-Bow Incident

Joan Claybrook

Activist

3-Aug-1938 Public Citizen

Alfred Deakin

Head of State

3-Aug-1856 7-Oct-1919 2nd Prime Minister of Australia

Dolores del Rio

Actor

3-Aug-1905 11-Apr-1983 Flying Down to Rio

William K. L. Dickson

Inventor

3-Aug-1860 28-Sep-1935 Motion picture camera

Marcel Dionne

Hockey

3-Aug-1951 NHL Hall of Famer

Lucky Dube

Singer

3-Aug-1964 18-Oct-2007 South African reggae star

Christine M. Durham

Judge

3-Aug-1945 Utah Chief Justice

Michael Ealy

Actor

3-Aug-1973 Barbershop

John Erman

Film Director

3-Aug-1935 Scarlett

Hamilton Fish

Politician

3-Aug-1808 7-Sep-1893 US Secretary of State, 1869-77

Jon Foster

Actor

3-Aug-1984 Damien Cutler on Windfall

Andrés Gimeno

Tennis

3-Aug-1937 Winner, 1972 French Open

Alex Grass

Business

3-Aug-1927 27-Aug-2009 Founder of Rite Aid

Mamie Gummer

Actor

3-Aug-1983 Daughter of Meryl Streep

Jean Hagen

Actor

3-Aug-1923 29-Aug-1977 Singin' in the Rain

Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Mathematician

3-Aug-1805 2-Sep-1865 Inventor of Quaternions

James B. Harris

Film Director

3-Aug-1928 The Bedford Incident

James Hetfield

Musician

3-Aug-1963 Metallica

Ms. Jade

Rapper

3-Aug-1979 She's a Gangsta

P. D. James

Novelist

3-Aug-1920 Adam Dalgliesh series, etc.

Mathieu Kassovitz

Film Director

3-Aug-1967 La Haine

Vera Katz

Politician

3-Aug-1933 Mayor of Portland Oregon, 1993-2005

Yvonne Kauger

Judge

3-Aug-1937 Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court

Bud Krogh

Government

3-Aug-1939 Nixon's plumbers

Maggie Kuhn

Activist

3-Aug-1905 22-Apr-1995 Organizer of the Gray Panthers

John Landis

Film Director

3-Aug-1950 An American Werewolf in London

Marv Levy

Football

3-Aug-1925 NFL, CFL, and NCAA coach

George L. Lilley

Politician

3-Aug-1859 21-Apr-1909 Governor of Connecticut, 1909

Evangeline Lilly

Actor

3-Aug-1979 Kate on Lost

Ryan Lochte

Swimmer

3-Aug-1984 Olympic swimmer

Marilyn Maxwell

Actor

3-Aug-1921 20-Mar-1972 Stand by for Action

John C. McGinley

Actor

3-Aug-1959 Dr. Perry Cox on Scrubs

Nate McMillan

Basketball

3-Aug-1964 Head Coach, Portland Trail Blazers

Roberto Micheletti

Head of State

3-Aug-1943 President of Honduras, after 2009 coup

Steven Millhauser

Author

3-Aug-1943 Martin Dressler

Roscoe Mitchell

Musician

3-Aug-1940 Founder of The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Christopher Murphy

Politician

3-Aug-1973 Congressman, Connecticut 5th

John M. Murphy

Politician

3-Aug-1926 Congressman snagged in ABSCAM

Nathan Myhrvold

Business

3-Aug-1959 CTO of Microsoft, 1996-2000

Pete Newell

Basketball

3-Aug-1915 17-Nov-2008 Influential NCAA coach

Jay North

Actor

3-Aug-1951 Dennis the Menace

Elisha Otis

Inventor

3-Aug-1811 8-Apr-1861 Invented the safety elevator

Vernon Louis Parrington

Historian

3-Aug-1871 16-Jun-1929 Main Currents in American Thought

Jo Marie Payton

Actor

3-Aug-1950 Family Matters

Ernie Pyle

Journalist

3-Aug-1900 18-Apr-1945 Scripps-Howard war correspondent

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Head of State

3-Aug-1948 Prime Minister of France, 2002-05

Edward B. Rust, Jr.

Business

3-Aug-1950 CEO of State Farm Insurance

Jonas Savimbi

Military

3-Aug-1934 22-Feb-2002 Angolan UNITA rebel

John T. Scopes

Educator

3-Aug-1900 21-Oct-1970 Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial

Gordon Scott

Actor

3-Aug-1926 30-Apr-2007 Played Tarzan, 1955-60

Martin Sheen

Actor

3-Aug-1940 The West Wing

Clifford D. Simak

Novelist

3-Aug-1904 25-Apr-1988 City and The Visitors

Judith A. Sprieser

Business

3-Aug-1953 CFO of Sara Lee, 1995-99

Harley O. Staggers, Sr.

Politician

3-Aug-1907 20-Aug-1991 Congressman from West Virginia, 1949-81

John C. Stennis

Politician

3-Aug-1901 23-Apr-1995 US Senator from Mississippi, 1947-89

Martha Stewart

Business

3-Aug-1941 Professional housekeeper, insider trader

Max van der Stoel

Politician

3-Aug-1924 23-Apr-2011 Two-time Dutch Foreign Minister

Jack Straw

Politician

3-Aug-1946 Leader, House of Commons, 2006-07

Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Film Director

3-Aug-1958 How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Koichi Tanaka

Chemist

3-Aug-1959 Refinements in mass spectrometry

Kenneth Tomlinson

Business

3-Aug-1944 Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Leon Uris

Novelist

3-Aug-1924 21-Jun-2003 Battle Cry

Diane Wakoski

Poet

3-Aug-1937 Coins & Coffins

Isaiah Washington

Actor

3-Aug-1963 Dr. Burke on Grey's Anatomy

George M. Whitesides

Chemist

3-Aug-1939 Harvard chemist, highest H-Index

Lambert Wilson

Actor

3-Aug-1958 The Merovingian

Terry Wogan

Radio Personality

3-Aug-1938 BBC's Wake Up To Wogan

William Burnham Woods

Judge

3-Aug-1824 14-May-1887 US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-87

Walter B. Wriston

Business

3-Aug-1919 19-Jan-2005 CEO of Citibank, 1967-84

Answer 2

Celebrities born on August 23 include :

Natalie Coughlin (Olympic swimmer) - born 1982

Kobe Bryant (NBA all-star) - born 1978

Scott Caan (actor and famous son) - born 1976

Shelley Long (TV actress) - born 1949

Rick Springfield (singer) - born 1949

Sonny Jurgensen (NFL QB and sportscaster) - born 1934

Barbara Eden (TV actress) - born 1931

Vera Miles (actress) - born 1929

Historically, August 23 was the birthday of :

Gene Kelly, musical actor (1912-1996)

Bob Peck, English actor (1945-1999)

Keith Moon, drummer (1946-1978)

River Phoenix, actor (1970-1993)

Answer 3

• Tom Brady
• James Hetfield
• Ryan Lochte
• Martha Stewart
• Evangeline Lilly
• Michael Ealy
• Landry Bender
• Tony Bennett
• Martin Sheen
• Jay North
• Karlie Kloss
• Damien Sandow

Answer 4

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Nobel Prize laureate

Answer 5

Denis Leary Patrick Swazy Robert gentile Christian Slater Roman Polanski Many more