On this day: 3 April
Events, births and deaths on 3 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Theodore Edgar McCarrick
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Cesare Maldini
- Deaths · Joseph Medicine Crow
- Deaths · Kōji Wada
100 years ago1926
- Births · Gus Grissom
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 963 · Deaths · William III, Duke of Aquitaine
- 1016 · Births · Emperor Xingzong of Liao
Events · 15
- 1589Beylerbeyi event — 1589 mutiny
- 1888Whitechapel murders — 1880s East End of London serial murders
- 1905Boca Juniors — Argentine sports club
- 1922General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — de facto head of state of the Soviet Union and dirigent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 1948Marshall Plan — American initiative for foreign aid to Western Europe following World War II
- 1948Jeju Uprising — 1948–49 uprising in Jeju Island, South Korea
- 1961Green Cross Tragedy — 1961 plane crash of a LAN Chile DC-3 in the Chilean Andes
- 1968I've Been to the Mountaintop — popular name of the last speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1974Super Outbreak — April 1974 tornado outbreak in the midwestern and southern U.S. and Canada
- 1981Osborne 1 — portable microcomputer
- 19961996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash — aviation accident
- 2009Binghamton shootings — 2009 shooting in the US
- 20172017 Saint Petersburg Metro attack — Explosion on a train in Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 2017
- 2018YouTube headquarters shooting — shooting in YouTube headquarters in 2018
- 20242024 Hualien earthquake — natural disaster affecting Taiwan
Births · 60
- 1245(Julian date)Philip III of France — king of France from 1270 to 1285 (1245–1285)
- 1593George Herbert — Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
- 1643Charles V, Duke of Lorraine — Duke of Lorraine and Bar (1643-1690)
- 1770Theodoros Kolokotronis — Greek general (1770–1843)
- 1781Swaminarayan — Founder and deity of the Swaminarayan sect
- 1783Washington Irving — American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)
- 1791Anne Lister — English landowner and lesbian diarist (1791–1840)
- 1798Charles Wilkes — naval officer and explorer from the United States (1798-1877)
- 1812Louise of Orléans — French princess (1832-1850); queen consort of the Belgians
- 1841Hermann Carl Vogel — German astronomer (1841-1907)
- 1875Mistinguett — French actress and singer
- 1880Otto Weininger — Austrian philosopher and writer (1880-1903)
- 1881Alcide De Gasperi — Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
- 1893Leslie Howard — British actor (1893–1943)
- 1900Camille Chamoun — President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958
- 1913Per Borten — 25th Prime Minister of Norway (1913–2005)
- 1915Piet de Jong — prime minister of the Netherlands (1915–2016)
- 1921Jan Sterling — American actress (1921–2004)
- 1922Doris Day — American actress and singer (1922–2019)
- 1924Marlon Brando — American actor (1924–2004)
- 1925Tony Benn — British politician (1925–2014)
- 1926Gus Grissom — American astronaut (1926–1967)
- 1929Poul Schlüter — Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993
- 1930Helmut Kohl — Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1982–1998)
- 1934Jane Goodall — English primatologist and anthropologist (1934–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 33(Julian date)Jesus Christ — central figure of Christianity (c. 6 or 4 BC – AD 30 or 33)
- 963(Julian date)William III, Duke of Aquitaine — Duke of Aquitaine from 959 to 963
- 1203(Julian date)Arthur I — Breton noble, posthumous son of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany
- 1253(Julian date)Richard of Chichester — Bishop of Chichester, Saint
- 1287(Julian date)Honorius IV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1285 to 1287
- 1325Nizamuddin Auliya — One of the most prominent Indian Sufi Saint, lived most of his life around Delhi. Spiritual guide to Amir Khusrau
- 1350Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy — French noble
- 1538(Julian date)Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire — English noble (1480-1538)
- 1545(Julian date)Antonio Guevara Noroña — Spanish roman-catholic bishop
- 1582(Julian date)Takeda Katsuyori — daimyo
- 1680(Julian date)Shivaji — Indian Maratha king and founder of the Maratha Swaraj (Empire)
- 1682Bartolomé Esteban Murillo — Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)
- 1695Melchior d'Hondecoeter — painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands (1636-1695)
- 1718Jacques Ozanam — French mathematician (1640-1718)
- 1826Reginald Heber — English clergyman, Lord Bishop of Calcutta
- 1827Ernst Chladni — German physicist, mathematician and musician (1756 – 1827)
- 1849Juliusz Słowacki — Polish Romantic poet (1809–1849)
- 1868Franz Berwald — Swedish composer
- 1882Jesse James — American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber
- 1897Johannes Brahms — German composer (1833–1897)
- 1902Esther Hobart Morris — American judge; Justice of the peace (1814–1902)
- 1930Emma Albani — Canadian opera soprano (1847-1930)
- 1936Richard Hauptmann — carpenter, convicted murderer (1899-1936)
- 1941Pál Teleki — Prime Minister of Hungary (1879–1941)
- 1943Conrad Veidt — German actor (1893–1943)
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