November 3
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November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 58 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 39 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
- 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
- 1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
- 1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
- 1604 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
- 1618 – Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor (d. 1707)
- 1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
- 1656 - Georg Reutter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1738)
- 1689 - Jan Josef Ignac Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
- 1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British diplomat and statesman (d. 1792)
- 1749 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
- 1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American founder of the Republic of Texas (d. 1836)
- 1799 - William Sprague III, American politician (d. 1856)
- 1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
- 1801 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)
- 1816 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
- 1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
- 1852 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (d. 1912)
- 1856 - Marcelino Menendez, Spanish historian (d. 1912)
- 1877 - Carlos Ibanez del Campo, President of Chile (d. 1960)
- 1879 – Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Icelandic-Canadian explorer (d. 1962)
- 1884 - Joseph W. Martin, Jr., American politician (d. 1968)
- 1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian writer (d. 1964)
- 1893 – Edward Albert Doisy, American biochemist (d. 1986)
- 1894 - Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician (d. 1964)
- 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1896 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
- 1900 – Adolf Dassler, German sporting goods executive (Adidas) (d. 1978)
- 1901 – King Leopold III of Belgium, King of Belgium (d. 1983)
- 1901 - Andre Malraux, Belgian writer (d. 1976)
- 1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
- 1908 – Giovanni Leone, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)
- 1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
- 1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Valdas Adamkus, former President of Lithuania
- 1927 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman
- 1930 - Peggy McCay, American actress
- 1930 – Lois Smith, American actress
- 1933 – John Barry, British movie score composer (d. 2011)
- 1933 – Michael Dukakis, 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1933 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist
- 1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1933 - Ken Berry, actor
- 1933 - Mildred McDaniel, American athlete
- 1935 - Abune Paulos, Ethiopian church leader (d. 2012)
- 1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
- 1938 - Akira Kobayashi, Japanese singer
- 1938 – Jean Rollin, French movie producer (d. 2010)
- 1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2011)
- 1945 – Gerd Mueller, German footballer
- 1945 - Nick Simper, British musician
- 1948 – Lulu, British actress and singer
- 1949 – Larry Holmes, American boxer
- 1949 - Anna Wintour, fashion magazine editor
- 1952 – Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedienne
- 1952 - Jim Cummings, American voice actor
- 1953 - Dennis Miller, American comedian
- 1953 - Kathy Kinney, American actress
- 1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress
- 1954 – Adam Ant, British singer
- 1956 - Bob Welch, American baseball player
- 1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
- 1958 - Tony McNulty, British politician
- 1960 - Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
- 1962 – Jacqui Smith, British politician
- 1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer
- 1970 – Andrzej Juskowiak, Polish footballer
- 1971 - Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
- 1971 – Dwight Yorke, footballer from Trinidad and Tobago
- 1973 – Mick Thomson, American musician (Slipknot)
- 1973 - Ben Fogle, British television personality, writer and broadcaster
- 1976 – Tom Brosseau, American singer-songwriter
- 1976 – Guillermo Franco, Mexican footballer
- 1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
- 1982 – Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater
- 1985 - Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
- 1986 - Piet Velthuizen, Dutch footballer
- 1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model
Deaths [change]
- 361 – Constantinus II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
- 753 - Pirminius, German saint (b. 700)
- 1254 - John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)
- 1584 - Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
- 1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
- 1639 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (b. 1579)
- 1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
- 1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
- 1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
- 1858 - Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (b. 1807)
- 1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1811)
- 1914 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (b. 1887)
- 1917 – Leon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
- 1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
- 1926 – Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
- 1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
- 1949 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, AMerican art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
- 1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869)
- 1957 – Laika, Soviet-Russian space dog (b. 1954)
- 1970 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
- 1973 - Marc Allegret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- 1975 - Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
- 1975 - A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
- 1975 - Tajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
- 1975 - Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
- 1981 – Eraldo Monzeglio, Italian footballer (b. 1906)
- 1983 - Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
- 1990 – Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1993 – Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
- 1996 – Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Central African dictator (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Bob Kane, American cartoonist (b. 1915).
- 1999 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
- 2006 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
- 2008 - Jean Fournet, French conductor (b. 1913)
- 2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (b. 1906)
- 2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
Events [change]
- 1333 - Flooding of the River Arno causes damage to the city of Florence, Italy.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Dominica.
- 1783 - The American Continental Army is dissolved.
- 1817 - The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
- 1838 - The Times of India, the world's best-selling broadsheet English language newspaper, is founded as the The Bombay Times and Journal of Finance.
- 1848 - A revised Dutch constitution is announced, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, it makes the powers of parliament stronger, while strongly restricting the powers of the monarchy.
- 1868 – Ulysses S. Grant is elected President of the United States.
- 1893 - The freight ship Cabo Machichaco explodes in the harbour of Santander, northern Spain. Some of its load included dynamite, and the resulting fire kills 590 people.
- 1896 – William McKinley is elected President of the United States.
- 1903 – Panama becomes independent, separating from Colombia.
- 1908 – William Taft is elected President of the United States.
- 1911 - Chevrolet enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- 1918 – Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies, dissolving the Habsburg-ruled Empire.
- 1918 – Poland declares independence from Russia.
- 1918 - The German Revolution of 1918-1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port city of Kiel.
- 1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a second term as President of the United States.
- 1954 - The first Godzilla film is shown in Japan for the first time.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with Laika, the world's first space dog, on board. Laika does not survive the mission.
- 1964 - Washington, DC residents are able to vote in a Presidential Election for the first time.
- 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to continue as President of the United States.
- 1966 – A series of tropical storms over the Bay of Bengal kill over 1,000 people.
- 1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 probe towards the planet Mercury.
- 1975 - Four Bangladeshi politicians loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are murdered in Dhaka Central Jail.
- 1978 – Dominica receives independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1979 - Greensboro massacre: Five Communist Party members are shot dead and seven are injured by a group of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 2,000 people.
- 1986 - The Federated States of Micronesia become independent from the United States.
- 1988 - Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the government of the Maldives.
- 1991 - Ayrton Senna wins the Formula One world championship for the third time.
- 1992 – Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating George H. W. Bush.
- 2003 – Michael Howard becomes leader of the British Conservative Party.
- 2007 – Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule in Pakistan, and suspends the constitution.
- 2012 - The 2012 New York Marathon is cancelled late on, due to the clean-up after Hurricane Sandy.
Observances [change]
- Independence Day (Panama, Dominica, Federated States of Micronesia)
