August 3

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.

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)

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

Observances

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