August 3

2024 Calendar

August 3 is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1181 – Pope Alexander III
1460 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (b. 1484)
1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (b. 1509)
1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander (b. circa 1540)
1667 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect (b. 1599)
1712 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654)
1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (b. 1641)
1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648)
1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, philosopher (b. 1715)
1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1792 – Richard Arkwright, industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame (b. 1732)
1797 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
1800 - Friedrich Gilly, German writer (b. 1772)
1839 - Dorothea Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
1867 – Philipp August Böckh, scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1877 – William B. Ogden, first Mayor of Chicago (b.1805)
1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1881 - William Fargo, American expressman (b. 1818)

1901 – 2000

1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish activist (hanged) (b. 1864)
1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)
1924 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857)
1929 – Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (b. 1857)
1942 – Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
1947 - José Pardo y Barreda, President of Peru (b. 1864)
1954 – Colette, French writer (b. 1873)
1964 – Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925)
1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
1973 – Richard Marshall, general (b. 1895)
1977 – Alfred Lunt, actor (b. 1892)
1977 – Archbishop Makarios III of Cyprus (b. 1913)
1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist (b. 1899)
1979 - Alfredo Ottaviani, Italian cardinal (b. 1890)
1983 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1929)
1995 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (b. 1914)
1995 – Edward Whittemore, writer (b. 1933)
1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)

From 2001

2002 - Carmen Silvera, Canadian-English actress (b. 1922)
2003 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, President of Sierra Leone (b. 1937)
2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)
2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
2005 – Steven Vincent, journalist (b. unknown)
2006 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German singer (b. 1915)
2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
2011 – Nikolay Petrov, Russian pianist (b. 1943)
2014 - Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (b. 1923)
2014 - Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist (b. 1944)
2014 - Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani politician (b. 1928)
2014 - Christian Frémont, French politician (b. 1942)
2015 - Margot Loyola, Chilean musician and folk singer (b. 1918)
2015 - Coleen Gray, American actress (b. 1922)
2015 - Mel Farr, American football player (b. 1944)
2015 - Robert Conquest, English-American historian (b. 1917)
2015 - Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (b. 1926)
2016 - Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1943)
2017 - Angel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1947)
2017 - Bonaventura Duda, Croatian friar and theologian (b. 1924)
2017 - Richard Dudman, American reporter and journalist (b. 1918)
2017 - Ty Hardin, American actor (b. 1930)
2017 - Robert Hardy, English actor (b. 1925)
2017 - Dickie Hemric, American basketball player (b. 1933)
2017 - Eberhard von Koerber, German manager (b. 1938)
2018 - Matija Barl, Slovenian actor (b. 1940)
2018 - Carlos Buttice, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
2018 - Ingrid Espelid Hovig, Norwegian television chef and cookbook author (b. 1924)
2018 - Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (b. 1931)
2018 - Tommy Peoples, Irish fiddler (b. 1948)
2018 - John Schella, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2019 - Miklós Ambrus, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1933)
2019 - Jean-Claude Bouttier, French boxer and actor (b. 1944)
2019 - Cliff Branch, American football player (b. 1948)
2019 - Brian Lochore, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1940)
2019 - Thomas Remengesau Sr., 2nd President of Palau (b. 1929)
2019 - John Philip Saklil, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1960)
2019 - Mike Troy, American swimmer (b. 1940)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 – Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland (d. 1981)
1901 - John C. Stennis, United States Senator (d. 1995)
1902 - Regina Jonas, German rabbi (d. 1944)
1903 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (d. 2000)
1904 – Clifford D. Simak, science fiction writer (d. 1988)
1905 – Franz König, Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna and last surviving cardinal of John XXIII (d. 2004).
1905 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (d. 1983)
1908 – Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (d. 1996)
1912 - Fritz Hellwig, German politician (d. 2017)
1914 - Mark Kac, Polish-American mathematician (d. 1984)
1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
1918 - James MacGregor Burns, American historian and political scientist (d. 2014)
1918 - Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008)
1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, Director of the CIA's Technical Services Staff (d. 1999)
1918 – Les Elgart, American musician, bandleader (d. 1995)
1920 – P. D. James, British novelist (d. 2014)
1923 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church (d. 2012)
1923 - Jean Hagen, American actress (d. 1977)
1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003)
1925 - Alain Touraine, French sociologist
1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer
1926 - Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1926 - Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007)
1928 - Cécile Aubry, French actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1928 - James B. Harris, American film director, screenwriter and producer
1932 - Fosforito, Spanish flamenco singer
1934 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan politician and rebel leader (d. 2002)
1935 – Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997)
1935 - Omero Antonutti, Italian actor
1935 - Richard Lamm, American politician, 38th Governor of Colorado
1936 – Edward Petherbridge, actor
1937 – Diane Wakoski, poet
1937 - Andres Gimeno, Spanish tennis player
1937 – Steven Berkoff, British actor
1937 - Roland Burris, American politician
1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television presenter (d. 2016)
1939 - Jimmie Nicol, English musician
1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor
1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player
1941 - Hage Geingob, 3rd President of Namibia
1941 – Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 – Martha Stewart, American home economist
1942 - Cecilia Cenci, Argentine actress (d. 2014)
1943 - Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Swedish royalty
1943 - Béla Bollobas, Hungarian mathematician
1944 - Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (d. 1977)
1946 – Jack Straw, British politician
1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1947 - Francisco José Lombardi, Peruvian director, producer and screenwriter
1947 - John Wesley, American actor (d. 2019)
1947 - Tadahiko Ueda, Japanese footballer (d. 2015)
1948 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France
1949 - Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
1950 - Waldemar Cierpynski, German marathon runner
1950 – John Landis, American movie director
1950 - Ernesto Samper, former President of Colombia

1951 – 1975

1951 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 – Jay North, actor
1951 – Hans Schlegel, German astronaut
1952 – Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer
1952 - Thomas Munkett, German athlete
1955 – Corey Burton, American actor
1958 - Peter Eriksson, Swedish politician
1958 - Lambert Wilson, French actor and baritone
1959 - Mike Gminski, American basketball player
1959 – Martin Atkins, English drummer
1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1959 - John C. McGinley, American actor
1960 - Tim Mayotte, American tennis player
1960 – Kim Milton Nielsen, Danish football referee
1960 - Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Bulgarian harpist, composer and musicologist
1960 - Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
1961 - Nick Harvey, English politician
1962 - Doris Bures, Austrian politician
1962 - Maurice Malpas, Scottish footballer
1963 - Graham Arnold, Australian footballer
1963 – James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)
1963 - Isaiah Washington, American actor
1963 - Giovanni Francini, Italian footballer
1963 - Lisa Ann Walter, American actress
1964 - Lucky Dube, South African singer (d. 2007)
1964 – Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1964 - Nate McMillan, American basketball player
1965 - Jordi Sans Juan, Spanish water polo player
1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor and comedian
1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1968 - Eyjolfur Sverrisson, Icelandic footballer
1968 - Isao Yukisoda, Japanese film director
1969 - Doug Overton, American basketball player
1970 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer
1970 - Masaharu Suzuki, Japanese footballer
1970 – Gina G, Australian singer
1970 - Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter
1971 - Kazuaki Tasaka, Japanese footballer
1972 - Erika Marozsan, Hungarian actress
1972 - Sandis Ozolins, Latvian ice hockey player
1975 - Felix Brych, German football referee

From 1976

1977 – Tom Brady, American football player
1977 – Angela Beesley, British Internet entrepreneur
1977 - Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
1977 - Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor
1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
1978 - Collin Benjamin, Namibian footballer
1979 - Maria Haukans Mittet, Norwegian singer and actress
1979 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress and model
1980 - Hannah Simone, Canadian actress, model and television presenter
1982 - Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier
1983 - Mamie Gummer, American actress
1984 - Mile Jedinak, Australian footballer
1984 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
1984 – Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
1984 - Chris Maurer, American singer and musician (Suburban Legends)
1985 - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player
1985 - Brent Kuzle, American bass player and producer
1986 – Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau
1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
1987 - Gary Medel, Chilean footballer
1988 - Sven Ulreich, German footballer
1989 - Jules Bianchi, French racing driver (d. 2015)
1992 - Lum Rexhepi, Finnish footballer
1992 - Karlie Kloss, American model
1993 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
1993 - Ola Abidogun, English sprinter
1994 - Corentin Tolisso, French footballer
2000 - Landry Bender, American actress

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day (Niger)
Emancipation Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Day of the National Flag (Venezuela)