On this day: 3 February
Events, births and deaths on 3 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Joe Alaskey
- Deaths · Balram Jakhar
- Deaths · József Kasza
100 years ago1926
- Births · Hans-Jochen Vogel
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1014 · Deaths · Sweyn I of Denmark
- 1116 · Deaths · Coloman
- 994 · Deaths · William IV, Duke of Aquitaine
Events · 24
- 1509Battle of Diu — 1509 battle between a great Muslim compound and Portuguese-Hindu forces in India
- 1583Battle of São Vicente — 1583 naval battle
- 17161716 Algiers earthquake — earthquake in Algeria
- 1813Battle of San Lorenzo — 1813 battle of the Argentine War of Independence
- 1830London Protocol of 1830 — Agreement
- 1930Communist Party of Vietnam — Vietnamese political party
- 19311931 Hawke's Bay earthquake — earthquake
- 1945Battle of Manila — battle in 1945 during World War II fought between Japan and the United States with the Commonwealth of the Philippines
- 1946Tonghua Incident — 1946 mass killing in China
- 1953Batepá massacre — 1953 uprising and massacre in São Tomé
- 1959The Day the Music Died — 1959 airplane crash that killed three American rock musicians
- 1959American Airlines Flight 320 — 1959 aviation accident
- 1970
- 19721972 Iran blizzard — blizzard in Iran
- 1986Pixar — American computer animation studio
- 19891989 Paraguayan coup d'etat — democratic revolt in Paraguay on 1989
- 19961996 Lijiang earthquake — natural disaster in Yunnan, China
- 1998Cavalese cable car disaster — 1998 accident where a US military airplane cut the cable of an aerial tramway
- 2005Kam Air Flight 904 — 2005 plane crash of a Kam Air Boeing 737-200 in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan; deadliest plane crash in Afghanistan
- 20062006 Sanaa prison escape — escape of 26 Al-Qaeda members
- 20073 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing — Murder-suicide truck bombing at Baghdad market in Iraq
- 20142014 Moscow school shooting — 2014 school shooting in Otradnoye District, Moscow, Russia
- 20232023 Ohio train derailment — Train derailment and environmental pollution in East Palestine, Ohio
- 20262026 Kwara State attacks — Massacre by Islamist militants in Nigeria
Births · 60
- 1338Joanna of Bourbon — Queen of France
- 1721Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz — German general
- 1736Johann Georg Albrechtsberger — Austrian music educator, composer and organist
- 1790Gideon Mantell — British scientist and obstetrician (1790–1852)
- 1795Antonio José de Sucre — Venezuelan military and politician (1795–1830)
- 1807Joseph E. Johnston — Confederate general (1807-1891)
- 1809Felix Mendelssohn — German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
- 1811Horace Greeley — American politician and publisher (1811–1872)
- 1821Elizabeth Blackwell — American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist (1821-1910)
- 1826Walter Bagehot — British journalist, businessman, and essayist (1826-1877)
- 1830Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury — British politician and prime minister (1830-1903)
- 1859Hugo Junkers — German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)
- 1874Gertrude Stein — American author (1874–1946)
- 1887Georg Trakl — Austrian poet (1887-1914)
- 1889Carl Theodor Dreyer — Danish film director (1889–1968)
- 1889Risto Ryti — President of Finland (1889–1956)
- 1892Juan Negrín — Prime Minister of Spain (1892-1956)
- 1893Gaston Julia — French mathematician
- 1894Norman Rockwell — American painter and illustrator (1894–1978)
- 1898Alvar Aalto — Finnish architect and designer (1898–1976)
- 1899Lao She — Chinese writer, novelist and playwright (1899-1966)
- 1899Café Filho — President of Brazil (1899-1970)
- 1905Paul Ariste — Estonian linguist (1905-1990)
- 1907James A. Michener — American author (1907-1997)
- 1909Simone Weil — French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
Deaths · 60
- 6(Julian date)Emperor Ping of Han — emperor of the Han dynasty
- 865(Julian date)Ansgar — missionary to Denmark and later Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
- 994(Julian date)William IV, Duke of Aquitaine — Duke of Aquitaine from 963 to 990
- 1014(Julian date)Sweyn I of Denmark — King of Denmark, England, and Norway
- 1116Coloman — king of Hungary (1095-1116)
- 1161Inge I of Norway — Norwegian King
- 1252(Julian date)Sviatoslav IV of Vladimir — Grand Prince of Vladimir (1196-1252)
- 1399(Julian date)John of Gaunt — English magnate of the House of Plantagenet (1340-1399)
- 1428(Julian date)Ashikaga Yoshimochi — The fourth shōgun of the Ashikaga Shogunate of Japan (1386–1428)
- 1451(Julian date)Murad II — sixth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1421–1444, 1446–1451)
- 1802Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes — Spanish count (1723-1802)
- 1820Gia Long — founder and 1st emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam (r. 1802-04)
- 1832George Crabbe — English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (1754-1832)
- 1862Jean-Baptiste Biot — French scientist (1774-1862)
- 1899Geert Adriaans Boomgaard — Dutch supercentenarian
- 1901Fukuzawa Yukichi — Modern Enlightenment thinker, educator, philosopher, scholar, author, writer, journalist, translator, entrepreneur, and founder of Keio University in Japan's Meiji era (1835-1901)
- 1922Christiaan de Wet — Boer general, rebel and politician (1854-1922)
- 1922John Butler Yeats — Irish artist (1839-1922)
- 1923Kuroki Tamemoto — Japanese general (1844-1923)
- 1924Woodrow Wilson — 28th President of the United States (1913–1921)
- 1925Oliver Heaviside — electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)
- 1929Agner Krarup Erlang — Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer (1878–1929)
- 1935Hugo Junkers — German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)
- 1945Roland Freisler — German jurist and politician (1893–1945)
- 1947Marc Mitscher — United States admiral (1887–1947)
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