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.
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)