May 3

2024 Calendar

May 3 is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 242 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1152 - Matilda of Boulogne (b. 1105)
1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. 1100)
1270 – Bela IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
1294 - John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252)
1481 – Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
1616 – William Shakespeare, English writer and playwright (b. 1564), April 23 in Julian calendar
1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644)
1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, politician and educator (b. 1662)
1752 - Samuel Ogle, English-American politician (b. 1692)
1758 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
1779 - John Winthrop, American mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1714)
1839 - Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
1856 - Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
1886 - Alexander Karadordevic, Prince of Serbia (b. 1806)

1901 – 2000

1910 - John Lourie Beveridge, 17th Governor of Illinois (b. 1824)
1916 – Tom Clarke, Irish nationalist (b. 1858)
1916 – Thomas MacDonagh, Irish nationalist (b. 1878)
1916 – Patrick Pearse, Irish nationalist and poet (b. 1879)
1932 - Charles Fort, American author (b. 1874)
1938 - Percy Funivall, English cyclist (b. 1867)
1939 - Madeleine Desroseaux, French poet and novelist (b. 1873)
1942 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1943 - Harry Miller, American engineer (b. 1875)
1948 - Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman (b. 1876)
1961 - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (b. 1908)
1969 – Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
1970 - Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk, Turkish footballer (b. 1918)
1972 - Emil Breitkreuz, American middle-distance runner (b. 1883)
1972 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904)
1976 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (b. 1903)
1987 – Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
1988 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1989 - Christine Jorgensen, American trans woman (b. 1926)
1991 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish writer (b. 1933)
1996 – Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
1997 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist (b. 1927)

From 2001

2002 – Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
2006 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1925)
2006 – Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
2007 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
2008 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1926)
2010 – Florencio Campomanes, Filipino chess player and official (b. 1927)
2010 – Guenter Wendt, German-American NASA engineer (b. 1923)
2011 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922)
2011 - Robert Brout, Belgian physicist (b. 1928)
2012 – Jorge Illueca, former President of Panama (b. 1918)
2012 – Lloyd Brevett, Jamaican musician (b. 1931)
2013 - Cedric Brooks, Jamaican-American saxophonist (b. 1943)
2014 - Gary Becker, American economist (b. 1930)
2014 - Jim Oberstar, American politician (b. 1934)
2015 - Abdul Wahid Aresar, Pakistani politician (b. 1949)
2015 - Danny Jones, Welsh rugby league player (b. 1986)
2015 - Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian film director (b. 1926)
2015 - Abdul Basit Usman, Filipino fugitive (b. 1974)
2015 - Harry Martin, American judge (b. 1920)
2015 - John Elders, English rugby union player (b. 1930)
2016 - Ian Deans, Scottish-Canadian politician (b. 1937)
2016 - Abel Fernandez, American actor (b. 1930)
2016 - Marianne Gaba, American model and actress (b. 1939)
2016 - Kaname Harada, Japanese World War II flying ace and anti-war activist (b. 1916)
2016 - Karol Machata, Slovakian actor (b. 1928)
2016 - Nicolas Noxon, American filmmaker (b. 1936)
2016 - Janusz Tazbir, Polish historian (b. 1927)
2017 - Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince and politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Lukas Ammann, Swiss actor (b. 1912)
2017 - Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and politician (b. 1942)
2017 - Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, Somali politician (b. 1985)
2017 - Yumeji Tsukioka, Japanese actress (b. 1921)
2018 - Doina Cornea, Romanian activist (b. 1929)
2018 - Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician (b. 1953)
2019 - Frits Soetekouw, Dutch footballer (b. 1938)
2019 - Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (b. 1930)

Births

Up to 1800

612 – Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1415 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
1428 - Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
1446 - Margaret of York (d. 1503)
1455 – King John I of Portugal (d. 1495)
1460 - Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal and patron of the arts (d. 1521)
1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian philosopher (d. 1527)
1678 - Amaro Pargo, Spanish pirate (d. 1747)
1695 – Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
1713 - Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician (d. 1765)
1729 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, German-Bohemian composer (d. 1774)
1761 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
1764 - Princess Elisabeth of France (d. 1794)
1768 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist (d. 1838)
1768 - Agustín Eyzaguirre, acting President of Chile (d. 1838)
1773 - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian naturalist (d. 1846)
1784 - Henry Hubbard, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1857)

1801 – 1900

1814 - Adams George Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1892)
1826 – King Charles XV of Sweden (d. 1872)
1841 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, English talent agent, impresario and composer (d. 1901)
1849 – Bertha Benz, German automobile pioneer (d. 1944)
1849 – Bernhard von Buelow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1860 – John Scott Haldane, British physiologist (d. 1936)
1860 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1940)
1861 - Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
1870 – Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
1872 – Simun av Skardi, Faroese poet and politician (d. 1942)
1873 - Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician (d. 1945)
1874 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
1877 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
1879 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founder of Qantas (d. 1950)
1879 - Clyde L. Herring, American politician, 26th Governor of Iowa (d. 1945)
1884 - Willie Reid, Scottish footballer (d. 1966)
1886 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1891 – Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
1892 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist (d. 1975)
1893 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer (d. 1975)
1895 - Cornelius Van Til, Dutch theologian and philosopher (d. 1987)
1895 - Gabriel Chevallier, French journalist and writer (d. 1969)
1895 - Bettina Encke von Arnim, German painter (d. 1971)
1896 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
1898 – Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)

1901 – 1950

1901 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (d. 1974)
1901 - Ebbe Schwartz, Danish football official, President of UEFA (d. 1964)
1902 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist (d. 1984)
1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
1905 – Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988)
1906 – Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987)
1909 - John A. Notte, Jr., American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1983)
1910 – Norman Corwin, American radio presenter (d. 2011)
1914 - Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French poet
1917 – Kiro Gligorov, former President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2012)
1919 – Pete Seeger, American musician (d. 2014)
1920 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2001)
1921 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
1922 – Len Shackleton, English footballer (d. 2000)
1923 - George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist, conductor, teacher and writer
1924 - Ken Tyrrell, English racing driver (d. 2001)
1926 - Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
1927 - Clelio Darida, Italian politician, Mayor of Rome (d. 2017)
1928 - Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)
1928 - Carel Visser, Dutch artist (d. 2015)
1930 - Juan Gelman, Argentine writer and poet (d. 2014)
1931 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (d. 1997)
1933 – James Brown, American singer (d. 2006)
1933 – Steven Weinberg, American physicist
1934 – Henry Cooper, British boxer (d. 2011)
1934 - Frankie Valli, American singer
1934 - Georges Moustaki, French singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1937 – Hans Cieslarczyk, German footballer
1938 - Lindsay Kemp, English actor, dancer and choreographer (d. 2018)
1941 - Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player
1941 - Edward Malloy, American educator
1942 – Butch Otter, American politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho
1943 - Jim Risch, American lawyer and politician, 31st Governor of Idaho
1945 - Jeffrey C. Hall, American geneticist, 2017 joint-Nobel laureate
1946 – Rabah Saadane, Algerian footballer and coach
1947 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)
1948 - Peter Oosterhius, English golfer
1949 – Ken Hom, Chinese-American chef

1951 – 1975

1951 – Jan Bielecki, Polish politician
1951 – Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
1951 - Christopher Cross, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1951 - Ashok Gehlot, Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan
1952 – Chuck Baldwin, American politician, pastor and radio host
1952 - Allan Wells, Scottish runner
1956 – Marc Bellemare, French-Canadian lawyer and politician
1958 – Sandi Toksvig, Danish writer and broadcaster
1959 – Ben Elton, English comedian and writer
1959 - David Ball, English keyboardist and producer (Soft Cell)
1960 - Kathy Smallwood-Cook, English athlete
1961 – Steve McClaren, English football manager
1963 - Mona Siddiqui, Pakistani-born British academic and journalist
1964 - Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Sterling Campbell, American drummer and songwriter
1965 – Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian, actor and presenter
1965 - Ignatius Aphrem I, Syrian patriarch
1965 - Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian multibillionaire and politician
1966 - Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
1970 - Bobby Cannavale, American actor
1970 - Suzi Perry, English model, columnist and motor racing presenter
1971 - Douglas Carswell, English politician, first UKIP MP
1972 - Stephen Barclay, English politician
1973 - Rea Garvey, Irish-German singer
1974 – Jukka Hentunen, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 - Christina Hendricks, American actress

From 1976

1976 – Beto, Portuguese footballer
1976 - Alexander Gerst, German geophysicist, volcanologist and astronaut
1977 - Mashima Hiro, Japanese manga artist
1977 - Ben Olsen, American soccer player
1977 - Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (d. 2017)
1978 - Dulé Hill, American actor and tap dancer
1978 – Autumn Phillips, Canadian-born member of the extended British Royal Family
1978 - Paul Banks, English-born musician
1978 - Lawrence Tynes, Scottish American football player
1979 – Simone Hauswald, German biathlete
1979 - Genevieve Nnaji, Nigerian actress and singer
1980 – Jaycee Lee Dugard, American kidnap victim
1981 – Farrah Franklin, American actress and singer
1981 - U-Nee, South Korean singer, dancer and actress (d. 2007)
1981 - Benoit Cheyrou, French footballer
1983 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
1983 – Laava, Brazilian singer
1983 – Joseph Addai, American Football player
1983 - Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer and entertainer
1984 - Cheryl Burke, American dancer
1985 - Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentine footballer
1985 - Meagan Tandy, American model and actress
1987 - Lina Grincikaite, Lithuanian sprinter
1987 - Joey Montana, Panamanian singer
1989 – Selah Sue, Belgian singer
1990 - Miranda Chartrand, Canadian-English singer
1990 - Brooks Koepka, American golfer
1996 - Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer
1996 - Noah Munck, American actor and musician
1996 - Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player

Deaths

Observances

Constitution Day in Poland and Lithuania
Constitution Memorial Day in Japan
World Press Freedom Day