October 3
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October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 42 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus
- 1078 – Iziaslav I of Kiev (b. 1024)
- 1226 – Saint Francis of Assisi (b. c. 1182)
- 1283 – David ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, executed
- 1369 – Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
- 1568 – Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
- 1611 – Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (b. 1584)
- 1629 – Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
- 1838 – Black Hawk, Sauk-American tribal leader (b. 1767)
- 1860 – Rembrandt Peale, American painter (b. 1778)
- 1867 – Elias Howe, American inventor (b. 1819)
- 1873 – Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
- 1877 – James Roosevelt Barley, American archbishop (b. 1814)
- 1881 – Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
- 1890 – Joseph Hergenröther German church historian (b. 1824)
- 1891 – Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1896 – William Morris, British artist and designer (b. 1834)
- 1897 – Saint Therese of Liseaux (b. 1873)
1901 – 2000
- 1929 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1878)
- 1931 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
- 1932 – Max Wolf, German astronomer (b. 1863)
- 1936 – John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
- 1939 – Fay Templeton, American actress & singer in musical comedy (b. 1865)
- 1953 – Arnold Bax, composer (b. 1883)
- 1959 – Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1892)
- 1965 – Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1967 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1912)
- 1967 – Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Pinto Colvig, American actor and animator (b. 1892)
- 1969 – Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
- 1979 – Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
- 1987 – Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
- 1987 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
- 1988 – Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
- 1990 – General Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force officer, candidate for Vice President of the United States (b. 1906)
- 1990 – Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman, married into Monegasque royalty (b. 1960)
- 1994 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician (b. 1908)
- 1998 – Roddy McDowall, British actor (b. 1928)
- 1999 – Akio Morita, Japanese co-founder of Sony (b. 1921)
- 2000 – Benjamin Orr, bassist and part-time lead singer for The Cars (b. 1947)
From 2001
- 2002 – Bruce Paltrow, American television and movie producer (b. 1943)
- 2003 – William Steig, American cartoonist and children's writer; creator of Shrek (b. 1907)
- 2004 – Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Ronnie Barker, British actor and comedian (b. 1929)
- 2009 – Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Fatima El-Sharif, former Queen of Libya (b. 1911)
- 2010 – Philippa Foot, British philosopher (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
- 2014 – Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Peer Augustinski, German actor (b. 1940)
- 2014 – Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian (b. 1963)
- 2014 – Alan Henning, English aid worker (b. 1967)
- 2014 – Ward Ruyslinck, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
- 2014 – Kevin Metheny, American radio executive (b. 1954)
- 2015 – Javid Iqbal, Pakistani judge (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Denis Healey, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1917)
- 2017 – Rodney Bickerstaffe, English trade unionist (b. 1945)
- 2017 – Michel Jouvet, French oneirologist and neurobiologist (b. 1926)
- 2017 – Chittani Ramachandra Hegde, Indian artist and dancer (b. 1933)
- 2017 – Jalal Talabani, Iraqi Kurdish politician, President of Iraq (b. 1933)
- 2017 – Ming Chang, Chinese-American naval officer (b. 1932)
- 2017 – John Herrnstein, American baseball player (b. 1938)
- 2017 – Isabella Karle, American scientist (b. 1921)
- 2017 – Victorino Martín, Spanish cattle rancher (b. 1929)
- 2018 – Elisabeth Andersen, Dutch actress (b. 1920)
- 2018 – Julien Bogaert, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1924)
- 2018 – Roger Gibbs, British financier (b. 1934)
- 2018 – Joseph Kamaru, Kenyan musician and political activist (b. 1938)
- 2018 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist (b. 1922)
- 2018 – Bent Lorentzen, Danish composer (b. 1935)
- 2018 – Hollie Pihl, American judge (b. 1928)
- 2019 – John Buchanan, Canadian politician, Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1931)
- 2019 – Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician, former Interim Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
- 2019 – Hu Yamei, Chinese physician and medical researcher (b. 1923)
- 2019 – Ignacio Noguer Carmona, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
- 2019 – Alberto Testa, Italian dancer and choreographer (b. 1922)
Births
Up to 1850
- 85 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman senator (d. 42 BC)
- 1458 – Saint Casimir, Polish prince (d. 1484)
- 1610 – Gabriel Lalemant, French-Canadian missionary (d. 1649)
- 1713 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer and violinist (d. 1797)
- 1716 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
- 1720 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
- 1722 – Johann Heinrich Tischbein, German painter (d. 1789)
- 1784 – Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, German explorer of Kamchatka, Russia (d. 1863)
- 1789 – Henry Pottinger, Irish-British soldier and colonial officer (d. 1856)
- 1792 – Francisco Morazán, Central American political leader and statesman (d. 1842)
- 1797 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
- 1800 – George Bancroft, American politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)
- 1804 – Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism or Kardecism (d. 1869)
- 1804 – Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician and diplomat (d. 1878)
- 1806 – Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
- 1828 – Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
- 1837 – Nicolás Avellaneda, President of Argentina (d. 1885)
- 1844 – Patrick Manson, Scottish physician (d. 1922)
- 1848 – Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
1851 – 1900
- 1853 – Stephan G. Stephansson, Western Icelandic farmer and poet (d. 1927)
- 1854 – Hermann von Struve, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1920)
- 1858 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
- 1862 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
- 1862 – Andrew J. Montague, Governor of Virginia (d. 1937)
- 1868 – Francisco Vidal y Barraquer, Spanish cardinal (d. 1943)
- 1869 – Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1942)
- 1873 – Emily Post, American etiquette advisor (d. 1960)
- 1873 – Ivan Shmelyov, Russian writer (d. 1950)
- 1875 – Dr. Atl, Mexican painter and writer (d. 1964)
- 1877 – William L. Harding, Governor of Iowa (d. 1934)
- 1879 – Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor (d. 1938)
- 1885 – Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
- 1886 – Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914)
- 1889 – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, writer and pacifist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
- 1890 – Emilio Portes Gil, 41st President of Mexico (d. 1978)
- 1893 – King Carol III of Romania (d. 1953)
- 1894 – Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
- 1894 – Walter Warlimont, German general (d. 1976)
- 1895 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
- 1895 – Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
- 1896 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish writer and poet (d. 1987)
- 1897 – Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
- 1898 – Leo McCarey, American movie director (d. 1969)
- 1899 – Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
- 1900 – Thomas Wolfe, American writer (d. 1938)
1901 – 1950
- 1904 – Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist (d. 1989)
- 1905 – Fuller Warren, 30th Governor of Florida (d. 1973)
- 1905 – Tekin Ariburun, Turkish politician (d. 1993)
- 1916 – James Herriot, British veterinarian and writer (d. 1995)
- 1916 – Russell W. Peterson, Governor of Delaware (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
- 1919 – James M. Buchanan, American economist (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Philippa Foot, British philosopher (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
- 1925 – George Wein, American pianist and producer
- 1925 – Gore Vidal, American writer (d. 2012)
- 1927 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian artist (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Sonny Ramphal, 2nd Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations
- 1931 – Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goaltender
- 1933 – Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
- 1934 – Jerry Apodaca, former Governor of New Mexico
- 1934 – Miguel-Angel Cardenas, Colombian painter and photographer (d. 2015)
- 1935 – Charles Duke, American general, pilot and astronaut
- 1936 – Viktor Kanevskyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2018)
- 1936 – Steve Reich, American composer
- 1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
- 1938 – Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru
- 1940 – Sheila Fearn, British actress
- 1941 – Chubby Checker, American popular musician
- 1941 – Andrea de Adamich, Italian racing driver and sportscaster
- 1942 – Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer (d. 2016)
- 1944 – Bob Riley, American politician, former Governor of Alabama
- 1944 – Roy Horn, German-born entertainer (Siegfried & Roy) (d. 2020)
- 1944 – Harry Hood, Scottish footballer (d. 2019)
- 1944 – Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
- 1946 – P. P. Arnold, American soul singer
- 1947 – John Perry Barlow, American musician (d. 2018)
- 1947 – Hopeton Lewis, Jamaican musician (d. 2014)
- 1947 – Fred DeLuca, American businessman (d. 2015)
- 1949 – J. P. Dutta, Indian director
- 1949 – Lindsey Buckingham, American musician (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1950 – Pamela Hensley, actress
- 1950 – John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (d. 1988)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Keb' Mo', American blues singer
- 1951 – Dave Winfield, American Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1953 – Bever-Leigh Banfield, American actress
- 1954 – Dennis Eckersley, American Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1954 – Al Sharpton, American minister, politician and activist
- 1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (d. 1990)
- 1956 – Hart Bochner, Canadian actor, screenwriter and producer
- 1957 – Robert Azevedo, Brazilian diplomat, 6th Director of the World Trade Organization
- 1958 – Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer
- 1958 – Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor
- 1959 – Fred Couples, American golfer
- 1959 – Greg Proops, American actor, stand-up comedian, voice artist and television host
- 1962 – Tommy Lee, American rock musician
- 1964 – Clive Owen, English actor
- 1965 – Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
- 1969 – Gwen Stefani, American singer, No Doubt frontwoman
- 1971 – Kevin Richardson, American musician and singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1972 – Komla Dumor, Ghanaian journalist (d. 2014)
- 1973 – Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
- 1973 – Lena Headey, British actress
- 1975 – India.Arie, American singer
From 1976
- 1976 – Seann William Scott, American actor
- 1978 – Christian Coulson, English actor
- 1978 – Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
- 1978 – Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
- 1978 – Jake Shears, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
- 1978 – Vienna Teng, American pianist and singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Josh Klinghoffer, American musician (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
- 1979 – Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer (The Script)
- 1980 – Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1981 – Florian Keller, German field hockey player
- 1981 – Seth Gabel, American actor
- 1981 – Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Swedish footballer
- 1981 – Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
- 1983 – Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Ashlee Simpson, American actress and singer
- 1984 – Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Courtney Lee, American basketball player
- 1986 – Jackson Martínez, Colombian footballer
- 1987 – Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican model and actress
- 1987 – Robert Grabarz, English high jumper
- 1987 – Danny Willett, English golfer
- 1988 – Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
- 1988 – ASAP Rocky, American rapper
- 1990 – Daria Shkurikhina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
- 1991 – Aki Takajo, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 1994 – Charlie Wernham, English comedian and actor
- 1996 – Adair Tishler, American actress and singer
- 1996 – Kalechi Iheanacho, Nigerian footballer
- 1997 – Juri Takahashi, Japanese idol and singer (AKB48)
- 1999 – Aramis Knight, American actor
- 2004 – Noah Schnapp, American actor
Deaths
Observances
- Unity Day (Germany), marking the German reunification of 1990.
- Foundation Day (South Korea).
- National Day (Iraq).
- Soldiers' Day (Honduras).