On this day: 3 December
Events, births and deaths on 3 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1919 · Deaths · Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- 1930 · Births · Jean-Luc Godard
- 1933 · Births · Paul J. Crutzen
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1099 · Deaths · Osmund
- 1038 · Deaths · Emma of Lesum
Events · 25
- 1775Continental Union Flag — first national flag of the United States
- 1799Battle of Wiesloch — battle of the Coalition Wars, 1799
- 1800Battle of Hohenlinden — 1800 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
- 1818Illinois — state of the United States of America
- 1854Eureka Rebellion — 1854 miners' revolt in Victoria, Australia
- 1881Aamulehti — newspaper published in Tampere, Finland since 1881
- 1888Kagawa Prefecture — prefecture of Japan
- 19011901 State of the Union Address — address by President Roosevelt
- 19291929 State of the Union Address — address by President Hoover
- 1944Dekemvriana — 1944 Greek Civil War clashes
- 1959flag of Singapore — national flag of the Republic of Singapore
- 196612-3 incident — 1966 Macau riot
- 1971Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 — 1971 war between India and Pakistan along Bengladesh Liberation War
- 1971Operation Chengiz Khan — Pakistan Air Force operation during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- 1972Spantax Flight 275 — plane which crashed while taking off, on December 3, 1972
- 1979Supreme Leader of Iran — ruler of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- 1979Iranian constitutional referendum, December 1979 — Poll conducted in Iran on 2 and 3 December 1979
- 1979The Who concert disaster — human stampede at a 1979 rock concert in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
- 1984Bhopal disaster — gas leak accident in Bhopal, India on 3 December 1984
- 1995Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 — aviation accident
- 1997Ottawa Treaty — treaty aimed at eliminating anti-personnel landmines around the world
- 20092009 Hotel Shamo bombing — Somalia
- 20232023 eruption of Mount Marapi — volcanic eruption in West Sumatra, Indonesia in December 2023
- 20242024 South Korean martial law crisis — martial law introduced in South Korea (3–4 December 2024)
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Births · 60
- 1368(Julian date)Charles VI of France — King of France from 1380 to 1422 (1368–1422)
- 1447(Julian date)Bayezid II — the eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481–1512)
- 1684Ludvig Holberg — Danish-Norwegian writer, philosopher and historian (1684–1754)
- 1722Hryhorii Skovoroda — Ukrainian philosopher (1722–1794)
- 1755Gilbert Stuart — American painter (1755–1828)
- 1800France Prešeren — Slovene national poet, a Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent (1800–1849)
- 1826George Brinton McClellan — American soldier and politician (1826–1885)
- 1833Carlos Juan Finlay — Cuban physician discoverer of means of transmission of yellow fever through biological vector (1833–1915)
- 1838Princess Louise of Prussia — Prussian princess (1838-1923)
- 1842Ellen Swallow Richards — American chemist (1842-1911)
- 1857Joseph Conrad — Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
- 1880Fedor von Bock — German field marshal (1880–1945)
- 1883Anton Webern — Austrian composer and conductor
- 1884Rajendra Prasad — Indian statesman, lawyer and writer (1884–1963); first President of India
- 1886Manne Siegbahn — Swedish physicist (1886-1978)
- 1887Naruhiko Higashikuni — Japanese prince (1887-1990)
- 1895Anna Freud — austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)
- 1899Hayato Ikeda — Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964
- 1900Richard Kuhn — Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)
- 1911Nino Rota — Italian composer
- 1922Sven Nykvist — Swedish cinematographer and film director (1922-2006)
- 1923Stjepan Bobek — Croatian footballer (1923-2010)
- 1924John Backus — American computer scientist (1924–2007)
- 1927Andy Williams — American singer (1927–2012)
- 1930Jean-Luc Godard — French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)
Deaths · 60
- 650(Julian date)Birinus — British bishop
- 1038Emma of Lesum — German countess
- 1099(Julian date)Osmund — Norman nobleman and member of the English clergy
- 1154(Julian date)Anastasius IV — pope 1153–1154
- 1266(Julian date)Henry III the White — Duke of Wrocław
- 1532(Julian date)Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken — Duke of Zweibrücken from 1514 to 1532
- 1533(Julian date)Vasili III of Moscow — Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1505 to 1533
- 1552(Julian date)Francis Xavier — Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)
- 1592Alexander Farnese — duke of Parma and Piacenza, lived (1545-1592); duke of Castro, man of government and military in the service of Spain
- 1610Honda Tadakatsu — daimyo (1548-1610)
- 1668William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury — English earl (1591-1668)
- 1706Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen — German noblewoman and hymn author
- 1789Joseph Vernet — French painter and engraver from Avignon (1714-1789)
- 1815John Carroll — first Roman Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States (1735–1815)
- 1876Samuel Cooper — Adjutant and Inspector General of the armies of the Confederate States (1798–1876)
- 1888Carl Zeiss — German optical physicist (1816–1888)
- 1890Billy Midwinter — Australian cricketer (1851-1890)
- 1894Robert Louis Stevenson — Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
- 1902Robert Lawson — Scottish-born New Zealand architect (1833–1902)
- 1904David Bratton — American water polo player, swimmer, Olympic gold medalist
- 1910Mary Baker Eddy — American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910)
- 1919Pierre-Auguste Renoir — French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
- 1928Ezra Meeker — pioneer of Washington Territory who later publicized the memory of the Oregon Trail
- 1935Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom — fourth child and second daughter of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark (1868-1935)
- 1941Pavel Filonov — Russian painter and poet (1883-1941)
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