On this day: 3 August
Events, births and deaths on 3 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Loni Anderson
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Tony Bennett
- Births · Gordon Scott
- Births · Rushdy Abaza
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1003 · Deaths · At-Ta'i
- 979 · Deaths · Thietmar, Margrave of Meissen
Events · 19
- 881Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu — 881 battle during the Viking invasions of West Francia
- 908Battle of Eisenach — battle between Hungarian and German forces
- 1342(Julian date)Siege of Algeciras — 1342–1344 Castilian siege of the Marinid Empire capital
- 1601Battle of Guruslău — 1601 battle during Long Turkish War
- 1645Battle of Nördlingen — 1645 battle of the Thirty Years' War
- 1692Battle of Steenkerque — 1692 battle
- 1778La Scala — opera house in Milan, Italy
- 1889Battle of Toski — 1889 battle
- 1913Wheatland hop riot — riot during a strike of agricultural workers in Wheatland, California
- 1914Western Front — theatre of WWI in France and Belgium
- 1940Italian invasion of British Somaliland — part of the East African Campaign (1940–1941)
- 1949National Basketball Association — North American professional basketball league
- 1959Pidjiguiti massacre — historical event of Guinea-Bissau
- 1975Agadir air disaster — 1975 plane crash of a Boeing 707 in Agadir, Morocco
- 20052005 Mauritanian coup d'état — Military overthrow of Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
- 20102010 Karachi riots — demonstrations after the murder of Pakistani politician Raza Haider
- 20142014 Ludian earthquake — earthquake that struck Ludian County, Yunnan, China on 3 August 2014
- 20192019 El Paso shooting — mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, USA
- 20232023 Slovenia floods — 2023 flood in Slovenia
Births · 60
- 1770Frederick William III of Prussia — King of Prussia from 1797 to 1840
- 1804Joseph Paxton — English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament (1803-1865)
- 1811Elisha Otis — Founder of Otis Elevator Co.
- 1856Alfred Deakin — Australian politician (1856–1919)
- 1860William Kennedy Dickson — Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras (1860-1935)
- 1863Géza Gárdonyi — Hungarian writer (1863–1922)
- 1867Stanley Baldwin — British statesman (1867–1947)
- 1871Hàm Nghi — Vietnamese emperor (1871-1944)
- 1872Haakon VII of Norway — King of Norway from 1905 to 1957 (1872–1957)
- 1887Rupert Brooke — English poet (1887–1915)
- 1899Louis Chiron — Monegasque racing driver
- 1901Stefan Wyszyński — Polish Roman Catholic cardinal (1901-1981)
- 1903Habib Bourguiba — Tunisian politician (1903–2000)
- 1904Clifford D. Simak — American writer, journalist (1904–1988)
- 1904Dolores del Río — Mexican actress (1904–1983)
- 1905Franz König — Austrian Catholic cardinal (1905–2004)
- 1907Ernesto Geisel — military and president of Brazil (1974–1979)
- 1920P. D. James — English crime writer (1920-2014)
- 1923Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria — 117th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church (1923–2012)
- 1924Leon Uris — American author (1924–2003)
- 1926Tony Bennett — American singer (1926–2023)
- 1926Gordon Scott — American actor (1926-2007)
- 1928Cécile Aubry — French actress, television director, writer and screenwriter (1928–2010)
- 1934Jonas Malheiro Savimbi — Angolan political and military leader (1934-2002)
- 1935Georgy Shonin — Soviet cosmonaut (1935-1997)
Deaths · 60
- 1003(Julian date)At-Ta'i — Abbasid caliph (932-1003)
- 1460(Julian date)James II of Scotland — King of Scotland from 1437 to 1460
- 1546(Julian date)Antonio da Sangallo the Younger — Italian architect (1484–1546)
- 1546(Julian date)Étienne Dolet — French translator and scholar (1509-1546)
- 1621Guillaume du Vair — French bishop, Magistrate of the Parliament, Keeper of the Seals of France under Louis XIII
- 1761Johann Matthias Gesner — German classical scholar and schoolmaster (1691–1761)
- 1773Stanisław Konarski — Polish poet, dramatist (1700-1773)
- 1780Étienne Bonnot de Condillac — French academic
- 1792Richard Arkwright — textile entrepreneur; developer of the spinning frame (known as the water frame)
- 1797Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst — British Army officer (1717–1797)
- 1835Wenzel Müller — composer (1759-1835)
- 1839Dorothea von Schlegel — German novelist and translator
- 1857Eugène Sue — French writer (1804-1857)
- 1867August Böckh — German classical scholar and antiquarian (1785–1867)
- 1894George Inness — American landscape painter (1825-1894)
- 1916Roger Casement — Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet (1864–1916)
- 1917Ferdinand Georg Frobenius — German mathematician (1849–1917)
- 1924Joseph Conrad — Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
- 1929Thorstein Veblen — American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)
- 1929Emile Berliner — German-born American inventor (1851–1929)
- 1942Richard Willstätter — German chemist (1872–1942)
- 1954Colette — French novelist (1873–1954)
- 1958Peter Collins — British racing driver (1931-1958)
- 1964Flannery O'Connor — American writer (1925–1964)
- 1966Lenny Bruce — American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)
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