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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of April 1043 | EVENT | Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. |
| 3rd of April 1077 | EVENT | The first Parliament of Friuli is created. |
| 3rd of April 1559 | EVENT | The Peace of Cateau-Cambresis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars. |
| 3rd of April 1834 | EVENT | The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason. |
| 3rd of April 1860 | EVENT | The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins. |
| 3rd of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. |
| 3rd of April 1882 | EVENT | American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford. |
| 3rd of April 1885 | EVENT | Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design. |
| 3rd of April 1888 | EVENT | The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. |
| 3rd of April 1895 | EVENT | Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. |
| 3rd of April 1922 | EVENT | Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| 3rd of April 1929 | EVENT | RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line. |
| 3rd of April 1936 | EVENT | Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. |
| 3rd of April 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. |
| 3rd of April 1946 | EVENT | Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. |
| 3rd of April 1948 | EVENT | President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. |
| 3rd of April 1948 | EVENT | In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre. |
| 3rd of April 1955 | EVENT | The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges. |
| 3rd of April 1956 | EVENT | Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado. |
| 3rd of April 1961 | EVENT | The Leadbeater's Possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years. |
| 3rd of April 1968 | EVENT | Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. |
| 3rd of April 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. |
| 3rd of April 1973 | EVENT | Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released. |
| 3rd of April 1974 | EVENT | The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured. |
| 3rd of April 1975 | EVENT | Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. |
| 3rd of April 1981 | EVENT | The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. |
| 3rd of April 1996 | EVENT | A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board. |
| 3rd of April 1996 | EVENT | Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States. |
| 3rd of April 1997 | EVENT | The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas. |
| 3rd of April 2000 | EVENT | United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. |
| 3rd of April 2004 | EVENT | Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. |
| 3rd of April 2007 | EVENT | Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record. |
| 3rd of April 2008 | EVENT | Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be removed and taken into state custody. |
| 3rd of April 2008 | EVENT | ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations. |
| 3rd of April 1151 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Svyatoslavich, Kievan Rus' prince (d. 1202) |
| 3rd of April 1367 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry IV of England (d. 1413) |
| 3rd of April 1529 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581) |
| 3rd of April 1593 | BIRTHDAY | George Herbert, English poet and orator (d. 1633) |
| 3rd of April 1643 | BIRTHDAY | Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690) |
| 3rd of April 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749) |
| 3rd of April 1693 | BIRTHDAY | George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773) |
| 3rd of April 1715 | BIRTHDAY | William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787) |
| 3rd of April 1764 | BIRTHDAY | John Abernethy, English surgeon (d. 1831) |
| 3rd of April 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835) |
| 3rd of April 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843) |
| 3rd of April 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859) |
| 3rd of April 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856) |
| 3rd of April 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (d. 1901) |
| 3rd of April 1821 | BIRTHDAY | T. Pelham Dale, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1892) |
| 3rd of April 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909) |
| 3rd of April 1823 | BIRTHDAY | William Magear "Boss" Tweed, American political boss (d. 1878) |
| 3rd of April 1823 | BIRTHDAY | George Horatio Derby, Early American humorist (d. 1861) |
| 3rd of April 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Ulric Dahlgren, American Unionist colonel (d. 1864) |
| 3rd of April 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (d. 1903) |
| 3rd of April 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1954) |
| 3rd of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American film director (d. 1981) |
| 3rd of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954) |
| 3rd of April 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Otori Tanigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (d. 1956) |
| 3rd of April 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Nishizo Tsukahara, Japanese naval commander (d. 1966) |
| 3rd of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (d. 1949) |
| 3rd of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Howard, English actor (d. 1943) |
| 3rd of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945) |
| 3rd of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d. 1968) |
| 3rd of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek officer who served in World War I, the Minor Asia Campaign and World War II (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981) |
| 3rd of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Luce, American publisher (d. 1967) |
| 3rd of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958) |
| 3rd of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958) |
| 3rd of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Rand, American burlesque dancer (d. 1979) |
| 3rd of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Russel Wright, American industrial designer (d. 1976) |
| 3rd of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965) |
| 3rd of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?awa Walasiewicz, Polish Olympic athlete (d. 1980) |
| 3rd of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek politician, physician and athlete (d. 1963) |
| 3rd of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Piet de Jong, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 until 1971 |
| 3rd of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ihsan Dogramac?, Turkish physician and academic (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer, conductor and administrator (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi |
| 3rd of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (d. 1977) |
| 3rd of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Freeman, American composer and lyricist (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991) |
| 3rd of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer and songwriter (d. 1968) |
| 3rd of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Day, American actress, singer and animal rights activist |
| 3rd of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hawkins, English actor (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Benn, British politician |
| 3rd of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Grammas, American Major League Baseball coach |
| 3rd of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Virgil "Gus" Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967) |
| 3rd of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Hagen, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Paterson, English chef and TV personality (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Don Gibson, American country musician (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Leonard, American television personality |
| 3rd of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Poul Schluter, Danish politician |
| 3rd of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Lawton Chiles, U.S. (Florida) Senator and Governor (d. 1998) |
| 3rd of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany |
| 3rd of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Moon, American baseball player |
| 3rd of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Dornan, American politician |
| 3rd of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Goodall, English zoologist |
| 3rd of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961) |
| 3rd of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy McGriff, American jazz organist (d. 2008) |
| 3rd of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Barry, American songwriter and record producer |
| 3rd of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Craig Roberts, American economist |
| 3rd of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de Roubaix, French film score composer (d. 1975) |
| 3rd of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Berry, American musician (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (d. 1984) |
| 3rd of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Braeden, German-born actor |
| 3rd of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Wynne, American musician (d. 1984) |
| 3rd of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Marsha Mason, American actress |
| 3rd of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Newton, American singer |
| 3rd of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Joe Royal, American singer |
| 3rd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Lynn, British actor and comedy writer |
| 3rd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Manuel, Canadian musician and songwriter (d. 1986) |
| 3rd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Lavista, Mexican composer |
| 3rd of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Doreen Tracey, English-born Mouseketeer |
| 3rd of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Orlando, American musician |
| 3rd of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Parent, Quebec ice hockey player |
| 3rd of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Spaak, French actress |
| 3rd of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Hanna Suchocka, Poland's first female prime minister |
| 3rd of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress |
| 3rd of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Salinas, President of Mexico |
| 3rd of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch Politician and General Secretary of NATO |
| 3rd of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Arlette Cousture, French-Canadian writer |
| 3rd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Lyle Alzado, American football player (d. 1992) |
| 3rd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Grayling, British philosopher |
| 3rd of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Thompson, English musician and songwriter |
| 3rd of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Thomsett, English actress |
| 3rd of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Schacher, American musician |
| 3rd of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Moore, American politician and attorney |
| 3rd of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | K. Krishnasamy, Indian politician and physician |
| 3rd of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Taubman, Jewish singer |
| 3rd of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Wakanohana Kanji II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 56th Yokozuna |
| 3rd of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Boynton, American greeting-card designer, illustrator, and author |
| 3rd of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer |
| 3rd of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Hariharan, Indian singer |
| 3rd of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (d. 1996) |
| 3rd of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Miljkovic, Serbian director |
| 3rd of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Bose, Spanish musician and actor |
| 3rd of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Alec Baldwin, American actor |
| 3rd of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jaya Prada, Indian actress |
| 3rd of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | David Hyde Pierce, American actor |
| 3rd of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Denise Pelletier, Quebec singer |
| 3rd of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch musician |
| 3rd of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian |
| 3rd of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Rakintzis, Greek songwriter and singer |
| 3rd of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Rubin, American actress |
| 3rd of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Ness, American musician |
| 3rd of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Brenda Ann Spencer, American "I Hate Mondays" murderer |
| 3rd of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Criss Oliva, American musician (d. 1993) |
| 3rd of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Tsuyoshi Sekito, Japanese composer |
| 3rd of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Del Rio, American football coach |
| 3rd of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist |
| 3rd of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Robinson, English rugby player |
| 3rd of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Nazia Hassan, South Asian pop singer (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mina Tominaga, Japanese seiyu (voice actress) |
| 3rd of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | John de Vries, Australian racing driver |
| 3rd of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Pervis Ellison, American basketball player |
| 3rd of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Skaife, Australian racing driver |
| 3rd of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Bach, Canadian musician |
| 3rd of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Hewlett, English illustrator |
| 3rd of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Storm, Canadian wrestler |
| 3rd of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Picabo Street, American alpine ski champion |
| 3rd of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jennie Garth, American actress |
| 3rd of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh-Allyn Baker, American actress |
| 3rd of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sandrine Testud, French Top-10 tennis player |
| 3rd of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Bamber, English actor |
| 3rd of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor |
| 3rd of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Shirley, American musician (Switchfoot) |
| 3rd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian basketball player |
| 3rd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player |
| 3rd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player |
| 3rd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player |
| 3rd of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Aries Spears, American comedian |
| 3rd of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Will Mellor, English actor |
| 3rd of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Haas, German tennis player |
| 3rd of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Goode, English actor |
| 3rd of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Smit, South African rugby player |
| 3rd of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gregoire, French singer-songwriter |
| 3rd of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Leandro Vieira, Brazilian footballer |
| 3rd of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Bertram, American musician |
| 3rd of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Nash, Australian footballer |
| 3rd of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Heath Ramsay, Australian Olympic swimmer |
| 3rd of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player |
| 3rd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Allen, American football player |
| 3rd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Fler, German rapper |
| 3rd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Iain Fyfe, Australian footballer |
| 3rd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol |
| 3rd of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress |
| 3rd of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Errol Barnett, English reporter |
| 3rd of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Foster, English footballer |
| 3rd of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Maxi Lopez, Argentine footballer |
| 3rd of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer |
| 3rd of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish rally driver |
| 3rd of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Leona Lewis, English singer |
| 3rd of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Sanchez, Spanish footballer |
| 3rd of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Bynes, American actress |
| 3rd of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Bruce, American baseball player |
| 3rd of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Park Jung Min, Korean singer (SS501) |
| 3rd of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Sokolow, American musician |
| 3rd of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sal Zizzo, American soccer player |
| 3rd of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hartley, English footballer |
| 3rd of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Krul, Dutch footballer |
| 3rd of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricket player |
| 3rd of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Israel Folau, Australian rules footballer |
| 3rd of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer |
| 3rd of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer |
| 3rd of April 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Delezio, Australian medical figure |
| 3rd of April 0963 | DEATH | William III, Duke of Aquitaine (Born 915) |
| 3rd of April 1287 | DEATH | Pope Honorius IV, Pope for two years from 1285 to 1287 (Born c. 1210) |
| 3rd of April 1350 | DEATH | Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1295) |
| 3rd of April 1606 | DEATH | Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (Born 1563) |
| 3rd of April 1680 | DEATH | Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (Born 1630) |
| 3rd of April 1682 | DEATH | Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (Born 1618) |
| 3rd of April 1691 | DEATH | Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (Born 1608) |
| 3rd of April 1695 | DEATH | Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (Born c. 1636) |
| 3rd of April 1717 | DEATH | Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (Born 1640) |
| 3rd of April 1728 | DEATH | James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (Born 1662) |
| 3rd of April 1792 | DEATH | George Pocock, British admiral (Born 1706) |
| 3rd of April 1804 | DEATH | Jedrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest |
| 3rd of April 1827 | DEATH | Ernst Chladni, German physicist (Born 1756) |
| 3rd of April 1838 | DEATH | Francois Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (Born 1780) |
| 3rd of April 1849 | DEATH | Juliusz S?owacki, Polish poet (Born 1809) |
| 3rd of April 1868 | DEATH | Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (Born 1796) |
| 3rd of April 1882 | DEATH | Jesse James, American outlaw (Born 1847) |
| 3rd of April 1897 | DEATH | Johannes Brahms, German composer (Born 1833) |
| 3rd of April 1901 | DEATH | Richard D'Oyly Carte, British impresario (Born 1844) |
| 3rd of April 1930 | DEATH | Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (Born 1847) |
| 3rd of April 1936 | DEATH | Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh III (Born 1899) |
| 3rd of April 1941 | DEATH | Pal Teleki, Prime Minister of Hungary (Born 1879) |
| 3rd of April 1941 | DEATH | Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (Born 1877) |
| 3rd of April 1943 | DEATH | Conrad Veidt, German actor (Born 1893) |
| 3rd of April 1950 | DEATH | Kurt Weill, German composer (Born 1900) |
| 3rd of April 1950 | DEATH | Carter G. Woodson, African-American historian, author, journalist and founder of Black History Month (Born 1875) |
| 3rd of April 1952 | DEATH | Miina Sillanpaa, Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister (Born 1866) |
| 3rd of April 1962 | DEATH | Manolis Kalomiris, Greek classical composer (Born 1883) |
| 3rd of April 1965 | DEATH | Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (Born 1898) |
| 3rd of April 1971 | DEATH | Joseph Valachi, American gangster (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of April 1972 | DEATH | Ferde Grofe, American composer (Born 1882) |
| 3rd of April 1975 | DEATH | Mary Ure, Scottish actress (Born 1933) |
| 3rd of April 1978 | DEATH | Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (Born 1903) |
| 3rd of April 1981 | DEATH | Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (Born 1899) |
| 3rd of April 1982 | DEATH | Warren Oates, American character actor (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of April 1986 | DEATH | Peter Pears, English tenor (Born 1910) |
| 3rd of April 1987 | DEATH | Tom Sestak, American football player (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of April 1988 | DEATH | Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (Born 1907) |
| 3rd of April 1990 | DEATH | Sarah Vaughan, American singer (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of April 1991 | DEATH | Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (Born 1901) |
| 3rd of April 1991 | DEATH | Graham Greene, English writer (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of April 1993 | DEATH | Pinky Lee, American comic and children's television host (Born 1907) |
| 3rd of April 1994 | DEATH | Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of April 1995 | DEATH | Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman (Canadian Tire) (Born 1902) |
| 3rd of April 1996 | DEATH | Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (Born 1941) |
| 3rd of April 1996 | DEATH | Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of April 1998 | DEATH | Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (Born 1900) |
| 3rd of April 1999 | DEATH | Lionel Bart, English composer (Oliver!) (Born 1930) |
| 3rd of April 2000 | DEATH | Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (Born 1946) |
| 3rd of April 2002 | DEATH | Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (Born 1956) |
| 3rd of April 2003 | DEATH | Michael Kelly, American journalist (Born 1957) |
| 3rd of April 2004 | DEATH | Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer (Born 1942) |
| 3rd of April 2005 | DEATH | Tony Croatto, Italian singer (Born 1940) |
| 3rd of April 2005 | DEATH | Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (Born 1933) |
| 3rd of April 2007 | DEATH | Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of April 2007 | DEATH | Eddie Robinson, American football coach (Born 1919) |
| 3rd of April 2007 | DEATH | Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (Born 1937) |
| 3rd of April 2008 | DEATH | Hrvoje Custic, Croatian football player (Born 1983) |