August 3
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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.
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Births [change]
- 1509 – Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (d. 1546)
- 1692 – John Henley, clergyman (d. 1759)
- 1734 - Naungdawgyi, King of Burma (d. 1763)
- 1753 – Charles Stanhope, inventor of the calculator
- 1770 – King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
- 1801 – Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener (d. 1865)
- 1808 – Hamilton Fish, politician (d. 1893)
- 1811 – Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator) (d. 1861)
- 1817 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895)
- 1833 – Auguste Schmidt, feminist and teacher (d. 1902)
- 1851 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish physicist (d. 1901)
- 1856 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
- 1860 – W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
- 1867 – Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (d. 1947)
- 1872 – King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
- 1887 – Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915)
- 1890 - Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect (d. 1974)
- 1894 – Harry Heilmann, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
- 1895 – Neva Morris, American supercentenarian (d. 2010)
- 1900 – Ernie Pyle, war correspondent (d. 1945)
- 1900 – John T. Scopes, American teacher and Evolutionist, defendant in the Monkey Trial (d. 1970)
- 1901 – Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland (d. 1981)
- 1902 - Regina Jonas, German rabbi (d. 1944)
- 1903 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (d. 2000)
- 1904 – Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author, (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)
- 1914 - Mark Kac, Polish-American mathematician (d. 1984)
- 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, Director of the CIA's Technical Services Staff. (d. 1999)
- 1918 – Les Elgart, musician, bandleader (d. 1995)
- 1920 – P.D. James, British novelist
- 1923 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Tony Bennett, American singer
- 1934 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan politician and rebel leader (d. 2002)
- 1935 – Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997)
- 1936 – Edward Petherbridge, actor
- 1937 – Diane Wakoski, poet
- 1937 – Steven Berkoff, British actor
- 1937 - Roland Burris, American politician
- 1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish radio and television presenter
- 1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor
- 1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player
- 1941 – Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
- 1941 – Martha Stewart, American home economist
- 1946 – Jack Straw, British politician
- 1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004)
- 1948 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister of France
- 1950 – John Landis, film director
- 1950 - Ernesto Samper, former President of Colombia
- 1951 – Marcel Dionne, hockey player
- 1951 – Jay North, actor
- 1951 – Hans Wilhelm Schlegel, German astronaut
- 1952 – Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer
- 1955 – Corey Burton, American actor
- 1959 – Martin Atkins, drummer
- 1959 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1960 – Kim Milton Nielsen, Danish football referee
- 1960 - Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean, Bulgarian harpist, composer and musicologist
- 1963 – James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica)
- 1963 - Isaiah Washington, American actor
- 1964 – Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Prime Minister of Thailand
- 1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1968 - Eyjolfur Sverrisson, Icelandic footballer
- 1970 – Gina G, Australian singer
- 1977 – Tom Brady, American football player
- 1977 – Angela Beesley, British Internet entrepreneur
- 1977 - Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist
- 1977 - Tomas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor
- 1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
- 1979 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress and model
- 1984 - Mile Jedinak, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
- 1984 – Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
- 1986 – Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau
- 1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty
- 1987 - Gary Medel, Chilean footballer
Deaths [change]
- 1181 – Pope Alexander III
- 1460 – King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
- 1546 – Étienne Dolet, 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)
- 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)
- 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 Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago (b.1805)
- 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
- 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)
- 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 of Cyprus (b. 1913)
- 1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist (b. 1899)
- 1983 – Carolyn Jones, actress (b. 1929)
- 1995 – Ida Lupino, actress, director (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Edward Whittemore, writer (b. 1933)
- 1998 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934)
- 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)
Events [change]
- 1031 - Olaf II of Norway is made a saint, by Grimtekel, the English bishop of Selsey.
- 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail for the voyage that took him to the Caribbean.
- 1492 – All Jews in Spain are expelled by the country's Catholic monarchs.
- 1527 - The first known letter from North America is sent from St. John's, Newfoundland.
- 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
- 1783 – In Japan, Mount Asama erupts, killing around 1,000 people.
- 1787 - Mesaurements by Geneva's Horace-Benedict de Saussure conclude that Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps.
- 1811 - First ascent of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps by Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
- 1818 - The Russian Rurik expedition ends after 3 years, led by Adelbert von Chamisso.
- 1852 - The first boat race between Harvard University and Yale University is held. Harvard wins.
- 1858 - John Hanning Speke becomes the first known European to reach Lake Victoria in Africa's Great Rift Valley.
- 1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
- 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war on France.
- 1916 - Irish Easter Rising leader Roger Casement is executed.
- 1936 – Jesse Owens wins his first gold medal of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
- 1936 - Fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 people, with only 20 survivors.
- 1940 – World War II: Italy invades Somaliland.
- 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a Communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
- 1949 - The NBA, the US governing body of basketball, is founded.
- 1958 - Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap, crossing the North Pole underwater.
- 1960 – Niger becomes independent from France.
- 1972 - The United States Senate confirms Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into a mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188 people.
- 1975 - Less than a month after the Comoros became independent, President Ahmed Abdallah is deposed in a coup, supported by Bob Denard. A revolutionary committee under Ali Soilih takes over.
- 1979 - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo deposes his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema in a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
- 1997 - The Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria kills 116 people.
- 2001 - The Real IRA detonates a bomb in Ealing, a suburb of London, injuring 7 people.
- 2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is re-opened, after it closed following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
- 2004 - The NASA MESSENGER space probe, in the Discovery programme, is sent to the planet Mercury.
- 2005 – President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is deposed from power, while abroad, attending the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
- 2005 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran.
Observances [change]
- Independence Day (Niger)
- Emancipation Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
