October 3

2024 Calendar

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).