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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of July 0324 | EVENT | Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. |
| 3rd of July 0987 | EVENT | Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France till the French Revolution in 1792. |
| 3rd of July 1608 | EVENT | Quebec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain. |
| 3rd of July 1754 | EVENT | French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces. |
| 3rd of July 1767 | EVENT | Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret. |
| 3rd of July 1767 | EVENT | Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published. |
| 3rd of July 1775 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 3rd of July 1778 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: British forces kill 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre. |
| 3rd of July 1819 | EVENT | The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens. |
| 3rd of July 1839 | EVENT | The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students. |
| 3rd of July 1844 | EVENT | The last pair of Great Auks is killed. |
| 3rd of July 1848 | EVENT | Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans. |
| 3rd of July 1849 | EVENT | The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification. |
| 3rd of July 1852 | EVENT | Congress establishes the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco, California. |
| 3rd of July 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge. |
| 3rd of July 1866 | EVENT | Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Koniggratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria. |
| 3rd of July 1884 | EVENT | Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average. |
| 3rd of July 1886 | EVENT | The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. |
| 3rd of July 1886 | EVENT | Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen : the first purpose-built automobile. |
| 3rd of July 1890 | EVENT | Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. |
| 3rd of July 1898 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba. |
| 3rd of July 1913 | EVENT | Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. |
| 3rd of July 1938 | EVENT | President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield. |
| 3rd of July 1938 | EVENT | World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h). |
| 3rd of July 1940 | EVENT | World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kebir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish. |
| 3rd of July 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. |
| 3rd of July 1952 | EVENT | The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the Congress of the United States. |
| 3rd of July 1952 | EVENT | The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary. |
| 3rd of July 1962 | EVENT | The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends. |
| 3rd of July 1969 | EVENT | The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad. |
| 3rd of July 1970 | EVENT | A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people. |
| 3rd of July 1970 | EVENT | The Troubles: the "Falls Curfew" begins in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
| 3rd of July 1977 | EVENT | The Senegalese Republican Movement is founded. |
| 3rd of July 1979 | EVENT | U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. |
| 3rd of July 1981 | EVENT | First mention in the New York Times of a disease that would later be called AIDS |
| 3rd of July 1986 | EVENT | U.S. President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty. |
| 3rd of July 1988 | EVENT | United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. |
| 3rd of July 1988 | EVENT | The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus. |
| 3rd of July 1994 | EVENT | The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty-six people are killed in crashes. |
| 3rd of July 1996 | EVENT | Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland. |
| 3rd of July 2001 | EVENT | A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people. |
| 3rd of July 2006 | EVENT | Valencia metro accident leaves 43 dead in Valencia, Spain. |
| 3rd of July 2006 | EVENT | Asteroid 2004 XP14 flies within 432,308 kilometres (268,624 mi) of Earth. |
| 3rd of July 1423 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis XI of France (d. 1483) |
| 3rd of July 1442 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500) |
| 3rd of July 1530 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601) |
| 3rd of July 1676 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747) |
| 3rd of July 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765) |
| 3rd of July 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768) |
| 3rd of July 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792) |
| 3rd of July 1738 | BIRTHDAY | John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815) |
| 3rd of July 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813) |
| 3rd of July 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930) |
| 3rd of July 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Leos Janacek, Czech composer (d. 1928) |
| 3rd of July 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1907) |
| 3rd of July 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947) |
| 3rd of July 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951) |
| 3rd of July 1878 | BIRTHDAY | George M. Cohan, American actor, director, singer and dancer (d. 1942) |
| 3rd of July 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950) |
| 3rd of July 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Schuricht, Polish-born German conductor (d. 1967) |
| 3rd of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Kafka, Czech-German writer (d. 1924) |
| 3rd of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond A. Spruance, American Navy admiral (d. 1969) |
| 3rd of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Spanish writer (d. 1963) |
| 3rd of July 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (d. 1987) |
| 3rd of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992) |
| 3rd of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972) |
| 3rd of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952) |
| 3rd of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992) |
| 3rd of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1954) |
| 3rd of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (d. 1965) |
| 3rd of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | John Kundla, American college and professional basketball coach |
| 3rd of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | S. V. Ranga Rao, South Indian actor (Telugu Cinema Actor) (d. 1974) |
| 3rd of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (d. 1978) |
| 3rd of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952) |
| 3rd of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter, called Corneille (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore |
| 3rd of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Russell, British director |
| 3rd of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Fountain, American clarinetist |
| 3rd of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Tedesco, American musician (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Frits Helmuth, Danish actor (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Mellon Scaife, American newspaper publisher |
| 3rd of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut and politician |
| 3rd of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Baard Owe, Norwegian-born Danish actor |
| 3rd of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright |
| 3rd of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor |
| 3rd of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian politician and diplomat |
| 3rd of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano |
| 3rd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland |
| 3rd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lamar Alexander, American politician |
| 3rd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Fontella Bass, American soul singer |
| 3rd of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Allred, American Attorney |
| 3rd of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor |
| 3rd of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Paco Stanley, Mexican TV personality (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Kurtwood Smith, American actor |
| 3rd of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Durham, Australian singer and songwriter |
| 3rd of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter |
| 3rd of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cole, American TV actor |
| 3rd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Lee, American country-and-western singer |
| 3rd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland |
| 3rd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Barry, American humorist and author |
| 3rd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Buckley, American actress |
| 3rd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony "Top" Topham, English musician |
| 3rd of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist |
| 3rd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Smithers, American actress |
| 3rd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | James Hahn, American politician |
| 3rd of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer |
| 3rd of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician |
| 3rd of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer |
| 3rd of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Amit Kumar, Indian singer |
| 3rd of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer |
| 3rd of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Montel Williams, American talk show host |
| 3rd of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember |
| 3rd of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Ober, American game show host (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sian Lloyd, Welsh weather presenter |
| 3rd of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist |
| 3rd of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Didier Mouron, Swiss artist |
| 3rd of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Tippin, American singer |
| 3rd of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Higson, English author and actor |
| 3rd of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | David Shore, Canadian-born writer |
| 3rd of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Burchill, British journalist and author |
| 3rd of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt) |
| 3rd of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure) |
| 3rd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs) |
| 3rd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer |
| 3rd of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hunter Tylo, American actress |
| 3rd of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Gibson, American actor |
| 3rd of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Page, former South African cricketer |
| 3rd of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Cruise, American actor |
| 3rd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Harris, British author |
| 3rd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress |
| 3rd of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Nielsen, Danish actress |
| 3rd of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Moises Alou, Dominican baseball player |
| 3rd of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Burgener, Canadian programmer, inventor of 20Q |
| 3rd of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Spiros Marangos, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Cashman, American major league baseball executive |
| 3rd of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Aku Louhimies, Finnish film director and screenwriter |
| 3rd of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies) |
| 3rd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist |
| 3rd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Teemu Selanne, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 3rd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Shawnee Smith, American actress |
| 3rd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher and Internet activist |
| 3rd of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Furman, British television personality |
| 3rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Terris, Canadian actor and director |
| 3rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Wilson, American actor |
| 3rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Cunniffe, British actress |
| 3rd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Olafur Stefansson, Icelandic handball player |
| 3rd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Barber, American actress |
| 3rd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 3rd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Skinstad, Springbok rugby player |
| 3rd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 3rd of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | David Bowens, American football player |
| 3rd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese long-distance runner |
| 3rd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ludivine Sagnier, French actress |
| 3rd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Bacani, American baseball player |
| 3rd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer |
| 3rd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Trae, American rapper |
| 3rd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bostjan Nachbar, Slovenian basketball player |
| 3rd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer |
| 3rd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Munn, American television hostess |
| 3rd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Melisa Young, American Rapper ("Kid Sister") |
| 3rd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Torkildsen, American actor |
| 3rd of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kanika, Indian actress |
| 3rd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Steph Jones, American singer and model |
| 3rd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player |
| 3rd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 3rd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Sevier, Canadian actor |
| 3rd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Lawson, American football player |
| 3rd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Roche, Irish cyclist |
| 3rd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor |
| 3rd of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Paulus, American basketball and football player |
| 3rd of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver |
| 3rd of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Winston Reid, New Zealand-Danish footballer |
| 3rd of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Nathalia Ramos, Spanish actress and singer |
| 3rd of July 1570 | DEATH | Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist |
| 3rd of July 1642 | DEATH | Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (Born 1573) |
| 3rd of July 1672 | DEATH | Francis Willughby, English biologist (Born 1635) |
| 3rd of July 1704 | DEATH | Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (Born 1657) |
| 3rd of July 1749 | DEATH | William Jones, Welsh mathematician (Born 1675) |
| 3rd of July 1778 | DEATH | Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born 1720) |
| 3rd of July 1790 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste L. Rome de l'Isle, French chemist (Born 1736) |
| 3rd of July 1795 | DEATH | Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (Born 1716) |
| 3rd of July 1795 | DEATH | Louis-Georges de Brequigny, French historian (Born 1714) |
| 3rd of July 1809 | DEATH | Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (Born 1746) |
| 3rd of July 1858 | DEATH | Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (Born 1806) |
| 3rd of July 1863 | DEATH | George Hull Ward, American general (Born 1826) |
| 3rd of July 1904 | DEATH | Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (Born 1860) |
| 3rd of July 1904 | DEATH | Edouard Beaupre, Canadian giant and strongman (Born 1881) |
| 3rd of July 1908 | DEATH | Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (Born 1845) |
| 3rd of July 1914 | DEATH | Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (Born 1836) |
| 3rd of July 1916 | DEATH | Hetty Green, American businesswoman (Born 1834) |
| 3rd of July 1918 | DEATH | Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (Born 1844) |
| 3rd of July 1933 | DEATH | Hipolito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (Born 1852) |
| 3rd of July 1935 | DEATH | Andre Citroen, French automobile pioneer (Born 1878) |
| 3rd of July 1942 | DEATH | Louis Franchet d'Esperey, French general (Born 1856) |
| 3rd of July 1954 | DEATH | Siegfried Handloser, German physician (Born 1895) |
| 3rd of July 1957 | DEATH | Dolf Luque, baseball player (Born 1890) |
| 3rd of July 1965 | DEATH | Trigger, Roy Rogers' horse (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of July 1969 | DEATH | Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (Born 1942) |
| 3rd of July 1971 | DEATH | Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (Born 1943) |
| 3rd of July 1977 | DEATH | Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (Born 1891) |
| 3rd of July 1978 | DEATH | James Daly, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 3rd of July 1979 | DEATH | Louis Durey, French composer (Born 1888) |
| 3rd of July 1981 | DEATH | Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (Born 1920) |
| 3rd of July 1985 | DEATH | Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (Born 1893) |
| 3rd of July 1986 | DEATH | Rudy Vallee, American singer (Born 1901) |
| 3rd of July 1989 | DEATH | Jim Backus, American actor (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of July 1993 | DEATH | Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (Born 1909) |
| 3rd of July 1993 | DEATH | Don Drysdale, American baseball player (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of July 1994 | DEATH | Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (Born 1934) |
| 3rd of July 1995 | DEATH | Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of July 1995 | DEATH | Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1929) |
| 3rd of July 1998 | DEATH | Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (Born 1949) |
| 3rd of July 1999 | DEATH | Mark Sandman, American musician (Born 1952) |
| 3rd of July 2000 | DEATH | Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (Born 1944) |
| 3rd of July 2001 | DEATH | Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (Born 1931) |
| 3rd of July 2001 | DEATH | Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (Born 1940) |
| 3rd of July 2003 | DEATH | Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (Born 1914) |
| 3rd of July 2004 | DEATH | Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1929) |
| 3rd of July 2005 | DEATH | Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (Born 1914) |
| 3rd of July 2005 | DEATH | Gaylord Nelson, American politician (Born 1916) |
| 3rd of July 2006 | DEATH | Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (Born 1941) |
| 3rd of July 2006 | DEATH | Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (Born 1950) |
| 3rd of July 2007 | DEATH | Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (Born 1915) |
| 3rd of July 2007 | DEATH | Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of July 2008 | DEATH | Ernie Cooksey, English footballer (Born 1980) |
| 3rd of July 2008 | DEATH | Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (Born 1925) |
| 3rd of July 2008 | DEATH | Clive Hornby, English soap actor ("Emmerdale") (Born 1944) |
| 3rd of July 2008 | DEATH | Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (Born 1956) |
| 3rd of July 2009 | DEATH | John A. Keel, American fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (Born 1930) |