On this day: 3 July
Events, births and deaths on 3 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Diogo Jota
- Deaths · Michael Madsen
- Deaths · Peter Rufai
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Rae Allen
- Births · Johnny Coles
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1062 · Deaths · Bao Zheng
- 1090 · Deaths · Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen
- 964 · Deaths · Henry I
Events · 18
- 324(Julian date)Battle of Adrianople (324) — 324 battle
- 1608Quebec City — capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada
- 1754Battle of Fort Necessity — 1754 early battle in the French and Indian War
- 1778Battle of Wyoming — 1778 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1814Capture of Fort Erie — later battle during the War of 1812
- 1863Pickett's Charge — Confederate infantry assault during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War
- 1866Battle of Königgrätz — 1866 decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War
- 1890Idaho — state of the United States of America
- 1898Battle of Santiago de Cuba — 1898 naval battle near Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American war
- 1914Simla Convention — treaty concerning the status of Tibet
- 1940Attack on Mers-El-Kebir — 1940 battle
- 1962Algeria — country in North Africa
- 1970Dan-Air Flight 1903 — 1970 aviation accident
- 1988Iran Air Flight 655 shootdown — 1988 airliner shootdown
- 2005same-sex marriage in Spain — Legal history of same-sex marriage in Spain
- 2006Valencia Metro derailment — train wreck
- 20132013 Egyptian coup d'état — Military coup overthrowing Mohamed Morsi
- 20212021 Atami Mudflow — disaster in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan
Births · 60
- 321(Julian date)Valentinian I — Roman emperor from 364 to 375
- 1423(Julian date)Louis XI of France — king of France from 1461 to 1483 (1423–1483)
- 1442(Julian date)Go-Tsuchimikado — emperor of Japan
- 1517(Julian date)Li Shizhen — Chinese polymath and scientist (1517-1593)
- 1683Edward Young — English poet (1683–1765)
- 1728Robert Adam — British neoclassical architect (1728–1792)
- 1738John Singleton Copley — American painter (1738-1815)
- 1778Carl Ludvig Engel — German architect (1778–1840)
- 1789Johann Friedrich Overbeck — German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement (1789–1869)
- 1854Leoš Janáček — Czech composer (1854–1928)
- 1860Charlotte Perkins Gilman — American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
- 1870Richard Bedford Bennett — 11th Prime Minister of Canada (1870-1947)
- 1879Alfred Korzybski — Polish-American scholar and philosopher (1879–1950)
- 1883Franz Kafka — Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
- 1886Raymond A. Spruance — United States admiral (1886-1969)
- 1888Ramón Gómez de la Serna — Spanish writer (1888–1963)
- 1897Jesse Douglas — American mathematician (1897–1965)
- 1900Alessandro Blasetti — Italian film director, screenwriter and film editor (1900–1987)
- 1906George Sanders — British actor (1906–1972)
- 1921Susan Peters — American actress (1921–1952)
- 1924S. R. Nathan — 6th President of Singapore (1924–2016)
- 1927Ken Russell — British film director (1927–2011)
- 1930Carlos Kleiber — German-born Austrian conductor
- 1935Harrison Schmitt — Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
- 1937Tom Stoppard — Czech–English playwright (1937–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 458(Julian date)Anatolius of Constantinople — Eastern Orthodox saint
- 710(Julian date)Emperor Zhongzong of Tang — emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- 1062(Julian date)Bao Zheng — magistrate, judge, politician, mayor of Kaifeng, Northern Song dynasty (999-1062)
- 1090(Julian date)Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen — Germanic noble (c. 1060–1090)
- 1191(Julian date)Alberic Clement — Marshal of France
- 1503(Julian date)Pierre d'Aubusson — Catholic cardinal
- 1570(Julian date)Aonio Paleario — Italian humanist
- 1642Marie de' Medici — Queen of France (1575-1642); second wife of King Henry IV of France
- 1672Francis Willughby — English ornithologist and ichthyologist
- 1795Antonio de Ulloa — Spanish explorer, naval officer, colonial official, and naturalist
- 1863Thaóyate Dúta — 19th century Dakota chief (1810–1863)
- 1865Okada Izō — Japanese swordsman (1838-1865)
- 1887Clay Allison — Texas cattle rancher and gunfighter (1840-1887)
- 1904Theodor Herzl — father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
- 1908Joel Chandler Harris — American journalist, children's writer (1848–1908)
- 1916Hetty Green — American financier (1834–1916)
- 1918Mehmed V — 35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918)
- 1921James Mitchel — American athlete (1864-1921)
- 1933Hipólito Yrigoyen — president of Argentina (1852-1937)
- 1935André Citroën — French businessman (1878-1935)
- 1937Jacob Schick — American businessman (1877-1937)
- 1941Friedrich Akel — Estonian diplomat and politician (1871–1941)
- 1954Siegfried Handloser — German physician, chief of the German Armed Forces Medical Services, and convicted war criminal (1885-1954)
- 1969Brian Jones — British musician (1942–1969)
- 1971Jim Morrison — American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors (1943–1971)
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