July 3
July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 458 – Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople (b. 449)
- 710 – Emperor Zhongzhong of Tang, Chinese Emperor (b. 656)
- 1570 – Aonio Paleario, Italian reformer (b. 1500)
- 1640 – Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter (b. 1568)
- 1642 – Maria de'Medici, Queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
- 1778 – Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
- 1795 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, explorer, author and astronomer (b. 1716)
- 1809 – Joseph Quesnel, French–Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
- 1863 – George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
- 1863 – Little Crow, American tribal leader (b. 1810)
- 1888 – Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet (b. 1822)
1901 – 2000
- 1904 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
- 1904 – Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
- 1908 – Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (b. 1845)
- 1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
- 1918 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
- 1918 – Benjamin Tillman, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1847)
- 1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
- 1935 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1937 – Jacob Schick, American–Canadian captain and businessman, invented the electric razor (b. 1877)
- 1941 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian politician (b. 1871)
- 1957 – Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
- 1969 – Brian Jones, British musician (the Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
- 1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
- 1973 – Laurens Hammond, American inventor (b. 1895)
- 1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
- 1984 – Ernesto Mascheroni, Uruguayan–Italian footballer (b. 1907)
- 1986 – Rudy Vallée, American singer (b. 1901)
- 1987 – Viola Dana, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1989 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Le Van Thiem, Vietnamese mathematician (b. 1918)
- 1991 – Domingo Tarasconi, Argentine footballer (b. 1903)
- 1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
- 1993 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
- 1994 – Lew Hood, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
- 1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
- 1995 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
- 1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, software developer (b. 1949)
- 1999 – Mark Sandman, musician (Morphine (band)) (b. 1952) (heart attack)
- 2000 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
From 2001
- 2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian writer (b. 1931)
- 2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, papal diplomat (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
- 2005 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Gaylord Nelson, American politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1914)
- 2006 – Joseph Goquen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Claude Pompidou, First Lady of France (b. 1912)
- 2009 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorean writer (b. 1926)
- 2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian military commander (b. 1937)
- 2010 – Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Anna Massey, British actress (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer and producer (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer and politician (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Radu Vasile, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
- 2014 – Jini Dellaccio, American photographer (b. 1917)
- 2014 – Zalman Schachter–Shalomi, Ukrainian–born American rabbi (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Phil Walsh, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1960)
- 2015 – Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader, member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian–French actor (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Diana Douglas, Bermudan–American actress (b. 1923)
- 2015 – John A. Williams, American writer (b. 1925)
- 2015 – György Szabad, Hungarian politician and historian (b. 1924)
- 2016 – Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark (b. 1927)
- 2016 – Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
- 2016 – Uma Shankar Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1923)
- 2016 – Noel Neill, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2016 – Mauricio Walerstein, Mexican film director (b. 1945)
- 2016 – Markus Werner, Swiss writer (b. 1944)
- 2017 – José Luis Cuevas, Mexican painter (b. 1934)
- 2017 – Rudy Rotta, Italian guitarist and singer (b. 1950)
- 2017 – Solvi Stubing, German actress and model (b. 1941)
- 2017 – Paolo Villaggio, Italian actor and writer (b. 1932)
- 2017 – Tom Blom, Dutch radio and television presenter (b. 1946)
- 2017 – Spencer Johnson, American author (b. 1938)
- 2017 – Joe Robinson, British actor (b. 1927)
- 2018 – Richard Swift, American singer–songwriter (b. 1977)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
- 1906 – George Sanders, Russian–born English actor (d. 1972)
- 1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
- 1908 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1990)
- 1909 – Stavros Spiros Niarchos, Greek ship owner (d. 1996)
- 1910 – Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1954)
- 1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist, and television personality (d. 1965)
- 1916 – John Kundla, American basketball player and coach (d. 2017)
- 1917 – Joao Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, coach and journalist (d. 1990)
- 1918 – S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director and producer (d. 1974)
- 1921 – Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
- 1921 – François Reichenbach, French director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1993)
- 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Dutch artist (d. 2010)
- 1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)
- 1926 – Laurence Street, Australian jurist (d. 2018)
- 1927 – Ken Russell, English director (d. 2011)
- 1928 – Günter Bruno Fuchs, writer (d. 1977)
- 1928 – Jan Machulski, Polish actor (d. 2008)
- 1930 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Alexander Schalck–Golodkowski, German politician (d. 2015)
- 1934 – Manfred Bieler, writer
- 1935 – Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer–songwriter (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut
- 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech–born playwright
- 1938 – Martin Brandtner, American Marine Corps general (d. 2017)
- 1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo–soprano
- 1939 – Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian politician
- 1939 – Angelo Sormani, Brazilian footballer
- 1940 – Fontella Bass, American singer–songwriter (d. 2012)
- 1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
- 1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1942 – Robert Dugard, English speedway rider (d. 2018)
- 1942 – Eddy Mitchell, French singer–songwriter and actor
- 1943 – Kurtwood Smith, American actor
- 1943 – Norman Thagard, American astronaut
- 1944 – Michel Polnareff, French singer–songwriter
- 1945 – Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician, former Speaker of the UK House of Commons (d. 2018)
- 1946 – Leszek Miller, former Prime Minister of Poland
- 1946 – Michael Shea, American author (d. 2014)
- 1947 – Dave Barry, American writer
- 1947 – Betty Buckley, American actress
- 1947 – Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch footballer
- 1949 – Jan Smithers, American actress
- 1949 – Bo Xilai, Chinese politician
- 1950 – James Hahn, American politician, 40th Mayor of Los Angeles
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
- 1951 – Jean–Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc), Haitian politician (d. 2014)
- 1952 – Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1952 – Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist (d. 2015)
- 1955 – Walter Veltroni, Italian politician, former Mayor of Rome
- 1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host
- 1957 – Poly Styrene, English singer (d. 2011)
- 1959 – Ian Maxtone–Graham, American screenwriter and producer
- 1960 – Vince Clarke, British musician
- 1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese principal ballet dancer
- 1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor
- 1963 – Tracey Emin, English artist
- 1964 – Joanne Harris, English writer
- 1964 – Yeardley Smith, American actress
- 1965 – Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
- 1965 – Tommy Flanagan, Scottish actor
- 1966 – Moises Alou, American Major League Baseball player
- 1966 – Daniel Plaza, Spanish race walker
- 1968 – Ramush Haradinaj, 4th Prime Minister of Kosovo
- 1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian singer and keyboardist (Barenaked Ladies)
- 1970 – Arlene Foster, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and former First Minister of Northern Ireland
- 1970 – Audra McDonald, American actress and producer
- 1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1971 – Julian Assange, Australian internet activist, founder of the WikiLeaks website
- 1973 – Emma Cunniffe, British actress
- 1973 – Olafur Stefansson, Icelandic handball player
- 1973 – Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (d. 2013)
- 1973 – Patrick Wilson, American actor and singer
From 1976
- 1976 – Andrea Barber, American actress
- 1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1979 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
- 1980 – Olivia Munn, American actress
- 1980 – Jenny Jones, English snowboarder
- 1980 – Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
- 1981 – Aoi Tada, Japanese singer–songwriter and actress
- 1981 – Justin Torkildsen, American actor
- 1983 – Steph Jones, American singer and model
- 1983 – Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player
- 1985 – Keisuke Minami, Japanese actor and singer
- 1986 – Ola Toivonen, Swedish footballer
- 1986 – Oscar Ustari, Argentine footballer
- 1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver
- 1988 – Winston Reid, New Zealand footballer
- 1988 – Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater
- 1988 – James Troisi, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Elle King, American singer
- 1990 – Carly Lauren, American model
- 1991 – Will Grigg, English–Northern Irish footballer
- 1991 – Tomoni Itano, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
- 1991 – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russian tennis player
- 1992 – Nathalia Ramos, Spanish–American actress and singer
- 1992 – Molly Sandén, Swedish singer and voice actress
- 1992 – Masado Sudo, Japanese singer
- 1993 – Roy Kim, South Korean singer–songwriter
- 1993 – Kerem Demirbay, German footballer
Deaths
Holidays and observances
- Saint Thomas the Apostle Day[1]
- Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
- Independence Day (Belarus)