Famous birthdays, deaths and events of August 3
Birthdays 1801 - Joseph Paxton, English gardener (d. 1865) 1832 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914) 1850 - Reginald Heber Roe, 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School (d. 1926) 1855 - Joe Hunter, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1891) 1887 - Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915) 1894 - Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (d. 1951) 1895 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941) 1899 - Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979) 1900 - Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945) 1900 - John T. Scopes, American defendant (d. 1970) 1901 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Polish Catholic prelate (d. 1981) 1902 - Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi (d. 1944) 1904 - Clifford D. Simak, American author (d. 1988) 1905 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican-born actress (d. 1983) 1911 - Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990) 1913 - Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-born television comedy writer (d. 2007) 1916 - Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970) 1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978) 1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999) 1918 - Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008) 1920 - P. D. James, English novelist 1920 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971) 1921 - Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (d. 1972) 1921 - Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic 1922 - Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author 1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity 1924 - Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003) 1926 - Tony Bennett , American singer 1927 - Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007) 1928 - Cécile Aubry, French actress 1933 - Pat Crawford, Former Australian cricketer 1934 - Haystacks Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989) 1935 - Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist 1936 - Edward Petherbridge, English actor 1937 - Steven Berkoff, English actor 1937 - Duncan Sharpe, Former Pakistani cricketer 1938 - Terry Wogan, Irish television presenter 1939 - Jimmy Nicol, English musician 1939 - Apoorva Sengupta, Former Indian cricketer 1940 - Lance Alworth, American football player 1940 - Martin Sheen , American actor 1941 - Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles) 1941 - Martha Stewart , American media personality 1945 - Eamon Dunphy, former Irish footballer 1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004) 1949 - Reed Waller, American comic book author 1950 - John Landis, American film director 1951 - Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player 1951 - Jay North, American actor 1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer 1952 - Frank Schaeffer, American author 1952 - Loles León, Spanish actress 1954 - Gary Peters, English footballer 1955 - Corey Burton, American voice actor 1956 - Balwinder Sandhu, Former Indian cricketer 1957 - Mani Shankar, Indian film maker 1958 - Ana Kokkinos, Greek-Australian film director 1958 - Lambert Wilson , French actor 1959 - John C. McGinley, American actor 1959 - Martin Atkins, English musician 1960 - Tim Mayotte, American tennis player 1960 - Gopal Sharma, Former Indian cricketer 1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats) 1961 - Molly Hagan, American actress 1963 - James Hetfield , American musician (Metallica) 1963 - Kyoko Chan Cox, American musician 1963 - Ed Roland, American musician (Collective Soul) 1963 - Isaiah Washington, American actor 1963 - Lisa Ann Walter, American actress 1964 - Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician (d. 2007) 1966 - Brent Butt, Canadian actor 1966 - Eric Esch, American boxer 1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French film director and screenwriter 1968 - Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007) 1970 - Stephen Carpenter, American musician (Deftones) 1971 - Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (d. 2007) 1971 - DJ Spinderella, American rapper (Salt-N-Pepa) 1972 - Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player 1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor 1973 - Jay Cutler , American bodybuilder 1973 - Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer 1973 - Michael Ealy , American actor 1975 - Aryiro Strataki, Greek heptathlete 1975 - Chris Nevin, Former New Zealand cricketer 1976 - Troy Glaus, American baseball player 1977 - Tom Brady , American football player 1977 - Tómas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor 1977 - Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist 1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer 1979 - Kris Jenkins, American football player 1979 - Evangeline Lilly , Canadian model/actress 1980 - Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player 1980 - Brandan Schieppati, American singer (Bleeding Through) 1983 - Mamie Gummer , American actress ' 1984 - Jon Foster, American actor 1984 - Amanda Kimmel, American beauty queen 1984 - Yasin Avci, Danish footballer 1984 - Ryan Lochte, American swimmer 1984 - Sunil Chetri, Indian Footballer 1985 - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer 1987 - Brooklyn Decker, American fashion model 1993 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
Deaths 1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal 1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (b. 1556) 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (b. 1648) 1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (b. 1700) 1805 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (b. 1724) 1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763) 1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804) 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864) 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born writer (b. 1857) 1925 - William Bruce, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1864) 1954 - Colette, French writer (b. 1873) 1958 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931) 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American writer (b. 1925) 1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925) 1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892) 1983 - Carolyn Jones , American actress (b. 1930) 1990 - Betty Amann, German-American actress 1993 - Swami Chinmayananda, spread the teachings of Vedanta (b. 1916) 1995 - Ida Lupino , English actress and director (b. 1914) 1995 - Edward Whittemore, American writer (b. 1933) 1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (b. 1934) 2001 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922) 2002 - Carmen Silvera, British actress (b. 1922) 2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (b. 1954) 2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920) 2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945) 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singer (b. 1915) 2007 - John Gardner, British author (b. 1926) 2008 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918) 2008 - Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (b. 1939) 2008 - Erik Darling, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1933) 2011 - Bubba Smith, American actor and football player (b. 1945)
Events 881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. 1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs. 1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland. 1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635). 1645 - Thirty Years' War: Second Battle of Nördlingen (Battle of Allerheim) 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America. 1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people. 1852 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won. 1860 - The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand. 1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded. 1913 - Wheatland Hop Riot 1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France. 1916 - World War I: Battle of Romani 1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States. 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer. 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics. 1940 - World War II: Italy invades British Somaliland. 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. 1949 - National Basketball Association is founded in the United States. 1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap. 1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded 1960 - Niger gains independence from France. 1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188. 1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA. 1981 - Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi. 1996 - General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service. 1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed. 2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing). 2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks. 2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. 2009 - Bolivia becomes the first South American country to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
