(b. 1943) 2012 – Harold Dunaway, American race car driver and pilot (b. 1933) 2012 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b. 1957) 2012 – Siegfried Jamrowski, Russian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1917) 2012 – Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader and businessman, founded the Unification Church (b. 1920) 2012 – Charlie Rose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1939) 2013 – Ralph M. Holman, American lawyer and judge (b. 1914) 2013 – Pedro Ferriz Santacruz, Mexican-American journalist (b. 1921) 2013 – José Ramón Larraz, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1929) 2013 – Janet Lembke, American author and scholar (b. 1933) 2013 – Don Meineke, American basketball player (b. 1930) 2013 – Lewis Morley, Hong Kong-Australian photographer (b. 1925) 2014 – Aarno Raninen, Finnish singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944) 2014 – A. P. Venkateswaran, Indian soldier and politician, 14th Foreign Secretary of India (b. 1930) 2015 – Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (b. 1929) 2015 – Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (b. 1939) 2015 – Carter Lay, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1971) 2015 – Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914) 2015 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, world record holder for shortest man (b. 1939) 2017 – Walter Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950) 2017 – John Ashbery, American poet (b. 1927) Holidays and observances Christian feast day: Mansuetus of Toul Marinus Pope Gregory I Remaclus Prudence Crandall (Episcopal Church (USA)) September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) China's victory over Japan commemoration related observances: Armed Forces Day (Republic of China) V-J Day (People's Republic of China) Feast of San Marino and the Republic, celebrates the foundation of the Republic of San Marino in 301. Flag Day (Australia) Independence Day, celebrates the second independence of Qatar from the United Kingdom in 1971. Levy Mwanawasa Day (Zambia) Memorial Day (Tunisia) Merchant Navy Remembrance Day (Canada) Merchant Navy Day (United Kingdom) National Welsh Rarebit Day (United States) Tokehega Day (Tokelau, New Zealand) References External links Days of the year September