On this day: 3 June
Events, births and deaths on 3 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Edmund White
- Deaths · Shigeo Nagashima
- Deaths · Jim Marshall
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Muhammad Ali
100 years ago1926
- Births · Allen Ginsberg
- Births · Flora MacDonald
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1052 · Deaths · Guaimar IV of Salerno
Events · 21
- 1602Battle of Sesimbra Bay — 16th century naval battle between Spain (Portugal) and England
- 1621Dutch West India Company — Dutch chartered company responsible for trade and colonization in the New World (1621–1792)
- 1700Academy of the Distrustful — Catalan baroque literary and musical society
- 1861Battle of Philippi — 1861 early battle of the American Civil War
- 1863Gettysburg campaign — 1863 military campaign of the American Civil War
- 1892Liverpool F.C. — association football club in Liverpool, England
- 1896Li–Lobanov Treaty — treaty between the Russian Empire and Qing China
- 1940Operation Paula — the German codename given for the Second World War Luftwaffe offensive operation to destroy the remaining units of the Armée de l'Air (ALA), or French Air Force during the Battle of France in 1940
- 1941
- 1942Aleutian Islands Campaign — 1942 military campaign
- 1962Air France Flight 007 — 1962 aviation accident
- 1963Huế chemical attacks — 1963 tear gas attack in Vietnam
- 19731973 Paris Air Show crash — aviation accident
- 1979Uganda–Tanzania War — 1978–1979 armed conflict in East Africa
- 1979Ixtoc I oil spill — 1979-80 industrial disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
- 1998Eschede derailment — high-speed train accident in Germany
- 2006Montenegro — country in southeastern Europe
- 2012Dana Air Flight 992 — aviation accident
- 2012Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant — part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Elizabeth II
- 2013Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry plant fire — Chinese industrial accident
- 2019Khartoum massacre — Military Headquarter massacre in Khartoum, Sudan
Births · 60
- 1540Charles II, Archduke of Austria — Archduke of Austria and ruler of Inner Austria (1540-1590)
- 1635Philippe Quinault — French opera librettist
- 1723Giovanni Antonio Scopoli — Tyrolean physician and naturalist (1723-1788)
- 1726(Julian date)James Hutton — Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; (1726-1797)
- 1770Manuel Belgrano — Argentine politician and military leader
- 1808Jefferson Davis — President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)
- 1843Frederik VIII of Denmark — King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912
- 1844Garret Hobart — vice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899
- 1844Detlev von Liliencron — German lyric poet and novelist (1844–1909)
- 1853Flinders Petrie — British Egyptologist (1853–1942)
- 1865George V — King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
- 1873Otto Loewi — Jewish-German pharmacologist
- 1877Raoul Dufy — French painter (1877–1953)
- 1879Vivian Woodward — English footballer (1879-1954)
- 1881Mikhail Larionov — Russian artist (1881–1964)
- 1899Georg von Békésy — Hungarian physicist (1899–1972)
- 1901Zhang Xueliang — militant (1901–2001)
- 1906Josephine Baker — American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
- 1910Paulette Goddard — American actress (1910–1990)
- 1910Wilfred Thesiger — British explorer, military officer, writer and botanical collector (1910-2003)
- 1911Ellen Corby — American actress (1911-1999)
- 1922Alain Resnais — French film director (1922–2014)
- 1923Igor Shafarevich — Soviet and Russian mathematician (1923-2017)
- 1924Torsten Nils Wiesel — Swedish neuroscientist
- 1924Colleen Dewhurst — Canadian-American actress (1924-1991)
Deaths · 60
- 1411(Julian date)Leopold IV, Duke of Austria — Duke of Further Austria, lived (1371-1411)
- 1453Loukas Notaras — Byzantine writer and official
- 1548(Julian date)Juan de Zumárraga — Archbishop of Mexico
- 1553(Julian date)Wolf Huber — German painter and architect. (c.1485-1553)
- 1605Jan Zamoyski — Polish magnate, statesman and military commander (1542–1605)
- 1615Sanada Yukimura — 16th Century Commander and Legendary Warrior of the Sengoku Period
- 1649Manuel de Faria e Sousa — Portuguese writer and historian (1590-1649)
- 1657William Harvey — English physician (1578-1657)
- 1780Thomas Hutchinson — last civilian Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, historian (1711-1780)
- 1826Nikolay Karamzin — Russian writer, poet, critic
- 1844Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême — French prince (1775–1844)
- 1858Julius Reubke — German musician (1834-1858)
- 1861Stephen A. Douglas — American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)
- 1875Georges Bizet — French composer (1838–1875)
- 1877
- 1899Johann Strauss II — Austrian composer (1825-1899)
- 1900Mary Kingsley — British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)
- 1921Coenraad Hiebendaal — Dutch rower (1879-1921)
- 1924Franz Kafka — Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
- 1928Li Yuanhong — Chinese general and politician (1864-1928)
- 1938John Flanagan — Irish-American hammer thrower
- 1946Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin — Soviet politician (1875–1946)
- 1963John XXIII — priest, bishop, cardinal, pope
- 1963Nâzım Hikmet — Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist (1902–1963)
- 1963Edmond Decottignies — French weightlifter (1893–1963)
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