On this day: 3 October
Events, births and deaths on 3 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Patricia Routledge
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1929 · Deaths · Gustav Stresemann
- 1925 · Births · Gore Vidal
- 1929 · Events · Kingdom of Yugoslavia
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1078 · Deaths · Iziaslav I of Kiev
- 959 · Deaths · Gérard of Brogne
Events · 26
- 42 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Philippi — battle of the Roman civil war
- 1574(Julian date)Siege of Leiden — siege of Leiden by the Spanish army, 1573-1574
- 1602Battle of the Narrow Seas — naval engagement that took place on the 3–4 October 1602 during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 and part of the Dutch Revolt
- 1739Fifth Russo-Turkish War — 1735-1739 part of the Russo-Turkish Wars
- 1862Second Battle of Corinth — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1866Treaty of Vienna — Austro-Italian peace treaty, 1866
- 1895German Concession in Hankou — German Concession in China
- 1912Battle of Coyotepe Hill — 1912 battle during the US occupation of Nicaragua
- 1929Kingdom of Yugoslavia — the official name of Yugoslavia during the period of 1929–1941 (de facto)/1945 (de jure)
- 1935Second Italo-Ethiopian War — 1935-1936 war between Italy and Ethiopia
- 1935De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia — 1935 Italian offensive during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War
- 1943Lyngiades massacre — nazi killing of Greek civilians
- 1945World Federation of Trade Unions — international organization
- 19461946 American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crash — 1946 aviation accident
- 1952Operation Hurricane — test of the first UK atomic device on 3 October 1952, in which a plutonium implosion device was detonated in the lagoon in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia
- 19631963 Honduran coup d'état — military takeover of the Honduran government on 3 October 1963
- 1970National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — agency in the United States Federal Government
- 19891989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt — 1989 failed military coup in Panama against dictator Manuel Noriega
- 1993Battle of Mogadishu — battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
- 2009Organization of Turkic States — International organization to which Turkic sovereign states are members
- 20132013 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck — maritime incident off the Italian island of Lampedusa
- 20152015 bombing of Médecins Sans Frontières hospital — 2015 bombing in Kundus
- 2021Pandora Papers — 2021 financial document leak and scandal
- 20212021 Milan airplane crash — 2021 aviation incident
- 2023removal of Kevin McCarthy — 2023 removal of the 55th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- 20232023 Manitoba general election — 43rd general election in Manitoba
Births · 60
- 786(Julian date)Emperor Saga — Emperor of Japan
- 1458Saint Casimir — Polish and Lithuanian prince (1458–1484)
- 1797Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany — Grand Duke of Tuscany
- 1800
- 1804Allan Kardec — systematizer of Spiritism (1804–1869)
- 1858Eleonora Duse — Italian stage actress (1858-1924)
- 1867Pierre Bonnard — French painter and printmaker (1867-1947)
- 1869Alfred Flatow — German gymnast (1869–1942)
- 1886Alain-Fournier — French writer
- 1889Carl von Ossietzky — German journalist, author, pacifist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize (1889–1938)
- 1890Emilio Portes Gil — President of Mexico (1928-1930)
- 1894Walter Warlimont — German general (1894–1976)
- 1895Sergei Yesenin — Russian poet (1895–1925)
- 1897Louis Aragon — French poet (1897–1982)
- 1898Leo McCarey — American film director, screenwriter and producer (1898-1969)
- 1900Thomas Wolfe — American writer
- 1919James M. Buchanan — American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)
- 1920Philippa Foot — English philosopher (1920–2010)
- 1925Gore Vidal — American writer (1925–2012)
- 1928Erik Bruhn — Danish ballet dancer (1928-1986)
- 1935Armen Dzhigarkhanyan — Armenian, Soviet, Russian actor (1935-2020)
- 1935Charles Duke — American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1935)
- 1936Steve Reich — American composer (born 1936)
- 1938Pedro Pablo Kuczynski — Peruvian politician and economist; Prime Minister (2005–06), President (2016–18)
- 1938Eddie Cochran — American rock and roll pioneer (1938–1960)
Deaths · 60
- 818(Julian date)Ermengarde of Hesbaye — Holy Roman empress
- 1078(Julian date)Iziaslav I of Kiev — grand prince of Kiev (r. 1054–1068; 1069–1073; 1077–1078)
- 1226(Julian date)Francis of Assisi — Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)
- 1283(Julian date)Dafydd ap Gruffudd — Prince of Wales and last independent ruler of Wales
- 1369(Julian date)Margaret, Countess of Tyrol — Countess of Tyrol
- 1568(Julian date)Elisabeth of Valois — Queen consort of Spain (1545-1568)
- 1611Charles of Lorraine, duke of Mayenne — French noble (1554-1611)
- 1629Giorgi Saakadze — Georgian politician and military commander (c.1570-1629)
- 1649(Julian date)Giovanni Diodati — Calvinist theologian
- 1653Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn — Dutch linguist (1612–1653)
- 1704Jean-Baptiste Denys — French physician
- 1838Black Hawk — Sauk leader
- 1860Rembrandt Peale — American painter (1778-1860)
- 1867Elias Howe — American inventor (1819–1867)
- 1873Kintpuash — Chief of the Native American Modoc tribe
- 1877Rómulo Díaz de la Vega — President of Mexico (1800–1877)
- 1890Joseph Hergenröther — German Church historian and canonist (1824-1890)
- 1891Édouard Lucas — French mathematician (1842–1891)
- 1896William Morris — textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896)
- 1910Lucy Hobbs Taylor — 19th-century American school teacher and dentist
- 1917Eduardo Di Capua — Italian composer, singer and songwriter (1865–1917)
- 1929Gustav Stresemann — German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1878-1929)
- 1929Jeanne Eagels — American actress (1890–1929)
- 1931Carl Nielsen — Danish composer
- 1953Arnold Bax — English composer, poet, and author (1883–1953)
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