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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of August 0008 | EVENT | Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. |
| 3rd of August 0435 | EVENT | Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. |
| 3rd of August 0881 | EVENT | Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied. |
| 3rd of August 1492 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. |
| 3rd of August 1492 | EVENT | The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs. |
| 3rd of August 1527 | EVENT | The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland. |
| 3rd of August 1645 | EVENT | Thirty Years' War: the Second Battle of Nordlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire. |
| 3rd of August 1678 | EVENT | Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes. |
| 3rd of August 1783 | EVENT | Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people. |
| 3rd of August 1811 | EVENT | First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer. |
| 3rd of August 1852 | EVENT | First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won. |
| 3rd of August 1860 | EVENT | The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand. |
| 3rd of August 1900 | EVENT | The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is founded. |
| 3rd of August 1913 | EVENT | A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California. |
| 3rd of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Germany declares war against France. |
| 3rd of August 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Romani : Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula. |
| 3rd of August 1923 | EVENT | Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th President of the United States in the early morning following the death of Warren G. Harding the previous day. |
| 3rd of August 1934 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Fuhrer. |
| 3rd of August 1936 | EVENT | Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics. |
| 3rd of August 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland. |
| 3rd of August 1948 | EVENT | Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. |
| 3rd of August 1949 | EVENT | The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States. |
| 3rd of August 1958 | EVENT | The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap. |
| 3rd of August 1960 | EVENT | Niger gains independence from France. |
| 3rd of August 1972 | EVENT | The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. |
| 3rd of August 1975 | EVENT | A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. |
| 3rd of August 1977 | EVENT | The United States Senate begins its hearing about Project MKULTRA. |
| 3rd of August 1981 | EVENT | Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi. |
| 3rd of August 1997 | EVENT | Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara. |
| 3rd of August 2001 | EVENT | The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, UK injuring seven people. |
| 3rd of August 2004 | EVENT | The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks. |
| 3rd of August 2005 | EVENT | President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. |
| 3rd of August 1509 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Dolet, French scholar (d. 1546) |
| 3rd of August 1692 | BIRTHDAY | John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759) |
| 3rd of August 1734 | BIRTHDAY | Naungdawgyi, King of Burma (d. 1763) |
| 3rd of August 1770 | BIRTHDAY | King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840) |
| 3rd of August 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Paxton, English gardener (d. 1865) |
| 3rd of August 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1893) |
| 3rd of August 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Elisha Otis, American inventor (d. 1861) |
| 3rd of August 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Albert, Austrian general (d. 1895) |
| 3rd of August 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914) |
| 3rd of August 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Heber Roe, Australian academic and educator (d. 1926) |
| 3rd of August 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Hunter, English cricketer (d. 1891) |
| 3rd of August 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919) |
| 3rd of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | William Kennedy Dickson, France-born Scottish inventor (d. 1935) |
| 3rd of August 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Baldwin, English politician (d. 1947) |
| 3rd of August 1872 | BIRTHDAY | King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957) |
| 3rd of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Rupert Brooke, English poet (d. 1915) |
| 3rd of August 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (d. 1951) |
| 3rd of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Neva Morris, Iowa's oldest person (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941) |
| 3rd of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979) |
| 3rd of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945) |
| 3rd of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | John T. Scopes, American teacher and evolutionist (d. 1970) |
| 3rd of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Catholic cardinal (d. 1981) |
| 3rd of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | John C Stennis, American politician (d. 1995) |
| 3rd of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Regina Jonas, German rabbi (d. 1944) |
| 3rd of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford D. Simak, American writer (d. 1988) |
| 3rd of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Konig, Austrian Cardinal (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (d. 1983) |
| 3rd of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian television comedy writer (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician and Nisga'a statesman (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Newell, American basketball coach (d. 2008) |
| 3rd of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978) |
| 3rd of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970) |
| 3rd of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Les Elgart, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1995) |
| 3rd of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008) |
| 3rd of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player (d. 1971) |
| 3rd of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Elmar Tampold, Estonian-born Canadian architect |
| 3rd of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | P. D. James, English novelist |
| 3rd of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (d. 1972) |
| 3rd of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Hayden Carruth, American poet and literary critic (d. 2008) |
| 3rd of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of Coptic Christianity |
| 3rd of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Hagen, American film and TV actress (d. 1977) |
| 3rd of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Uris, American novelist (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Marv Levy, American football coach |
| 3rd of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Sampson, British journalist (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Bennett, American singer |
| 3rd of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Scott, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Cecile Aubry, French actress (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Henning Moritzen, Danish actor |
| 3rd of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer |
| 3rd of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | William Calhoun, American professional wrestler (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Chapman, British classical bassoonist (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political leader (d. 2002) |
| 3rd of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist, composer and bandleader |
| 3rd of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Berkoff, English actor |
| 3rd of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Burris, American politician |
| 3rd of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani cricketer |
| 3rd of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Wogan, Irish television presenter |
| 3rd of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Nicol, English musician |
| 3rd of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Apoorva Sengupta, Indian cricketer |
| 3rd of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Alworth, American football player |
| 3rd of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | James Tyler, American musicologist and author (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Sheen, American actor |
| 3rd of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles) |
| 3rd of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Stewart, American media personality |
| 3rd of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (d. 1973) |
| 3rd of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer |
| 3rd of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Syreeta Wright, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Straw, British politician |
| 3rd of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French politician |
| 3rd of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Landis, American film director |
| 3rd of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Marie Payton, American actress |
| 3rd of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jay North, American actor |
| 3rd of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Loles Leon, Spanish actress |
| 3rd of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine footballer |
| 3rd of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Peters, English footballer |
| 3rd of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Burton, American voice actor |
| 3rd of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer |
| 3rd of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Kokkinos, Australian film director |
| 3rd of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lambert Wilson, French actor |
| 3rd of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John C. McGinley, American actor |
| 3rd of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gminski, American basketball player |
| 3rd of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Atkins, English drummer (Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Killing Joke) |
| 3rd of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Koichi Tanaka, Japanese engineer and chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 3rd of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer |
| 3rd of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Mayotte, American tennis player |
| 3rd of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats) |
| 3rd of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Hagan, American actress |
| 3rd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | James Hetfield, American vocalist and guitarist (Metallica) |
| 3rd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Isaiah Washington, American actor |
| 3rd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Roland, American vocalist (Collective Soul) |
| 3rd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Ann Walter, American actress |
| 3rd of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Nate McMillan, American basketball player and coach |
| 3rd of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai politician |
| 3rd of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lucky Dube, South African reggae vocalist and keyboardist (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Esch, American boxer |
| 3rd of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Butt, Canadian actor |
| 3rd of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mathieu Kassovitz, French film director and screenwriter |
| 3rd of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Overton, American basketball player |
| 3rd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game developer |
| 3rd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist (Deftones) |
| 3rd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Manmohan Waris, Indian Punjabi singer |
| 3rd of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sandis Ozolins, Latvian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder |
| 3rd of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ealy, American actor |
| 3rd of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Argiro Strataki, Greek heptathlete |
| 3rd of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Glaus, American baseball player |
| 3rd of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Brady, American football player |
| 3rd of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Lemarquis, Icelandic actor |
| 3rd of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist |
| 3rd of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer |
| 3rd of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Joi Chua, Singaporean singer |
| 3rd of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model and actress |
| 3rd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Pashos, American football player |
| 3rd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brandan Schieppati, American singer (Bleeding Through) |
| 3rd of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player |
| 3rd of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mamie Gummer, American actress |
| 3rd of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Reynolds, American baseball player |
| 3rd of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Foster, American actor |
| 3rd of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sunil Chetri, Indian footballer |
| 3rd of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Yasin Avci, Danish footballer |
| 3rd of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Lochte, American swimmer |
| 3rd of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Maurer, American musician |
| 3rd of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league footballer |
| 3rd of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque royalty |
| 3rd of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Hyung Joon, Korean singer (SS501) |
| 3rd of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Tiffin, American football player |
| 3rd of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Denny Cardin, Italian footballer |
| 3rd of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Bianchi, French racing driver |
| 3rd of August 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer |
| 3rd of August 1460 | DEATH | King James II of Scotland (Born 1430) |
| 3rd of August 1527 | DEATH | Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal |
| 3rd of August 1546 | DEATH | Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (Born 1484) |
| 3rd of August 1546 | DEATH | Etienne Dolet, French scholar and printer (Born 1509) |
| 3rd of August 1604 | DEATH | Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander |
| 3rd of August 1621 | DEATH | Guillaume du Vair, French writer (Born 1556) |
| 3rd of August 1667 | DEATH | Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (Born 1599) |
| 3rd of August 1712 | DEATH | Joshua Barnes, English scholar (Born 1654) |
| 3rd of August 1720 | DEATH | Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (Born 1641) |
| 3rd of August 1721 | DEATH | Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born English woodcarver (Born 1648) |
| 3rd of August 1761 | DEATH | Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (Born 1691) |
| 3rd of August 1773 | DEATH | Stanis?aw Konarski, Polish writer (Born 1700) |
| 3rd of August 1780 | DEATH | Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (Born 1715) |
| 3rd of August 1792 | DEATH | Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (Born 1732) |
| 3rd of August 1797 | DEATH | Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (Born 1717) |
| 3rd of August 1805 | DEATH | Christopher Anstey, English writer (Born 1724) |
| 3rd of August 1835 | DEATH | Wenzel Muller, Austrian composer and conductor (Born 1767) |
| 3rd of August 1839 | DEATH | Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (Born 1763) |
| 3rd of August 1857 | DEATH | Eugene Sue, French novelist (Born 1804) |
| 3rd of August 1867 | DEATH | Philipp August Bockh, German scholar and antiquarian (Born 1785) |
| 3rd of August 1877 | DEATH | William Butler Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (Born 1805) |
| 3rd of August 1879 | DEATH | Joseph Severn, English painter (Born 1793) |
| 3rd of August 1916 | DEATH | Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (Born 1864) |
| 3rd of August 1917 | DEATH | Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (Born 1849) |
| 3rd of August 1924 | DEATH | Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (Born 1857) |
| 3rd of August 1925 | DEATH | William Bruce, Australian cricketer (Born 1864) |
| 3rd of August 1929 | DEATH | Emile Berliner, German-born American telephone and recording pioneer (Born 1851) |
| 3rd of August 1929 | DEATH | Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Born 1857) |
| 3rd of August 1942 | DEATH | Richard Willstatter, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1872) |
| 3rd of August 1954 | DEATH | Colette, French writer (Born 1873) |
| 3rd of August 1958 | DEATH | Peter Collins, English race car driver (Born 1931) |
| 3rd of August 1964 | DEATH | Flannery O'Connor, American writer (Born 1925) |
| 3rd of August 1966 | DEATH | Lenny Bruce, American comedian (Born 1925) |
| 3rd of August 1972 | DEATH | Giannis Papaioannou, Turkey-born Greek musician and composer (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of August 1973 | DEATH | Richard Marshall, U.S. Army general (Born 1895) |
| 3rd of August 1977 | DEATH | Alfred Lunt, American actor (Born 1892) |
| 3rd of August 1977 | DEATH | Makarios III, Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of August 1979 | DEATH | Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1899) |
| 3rd of August 1983 | DEATH | Carolyn Jones, American actress (Born 1930) |
| 3rd of August 1990 | DEATH | Betty Amann, German-born American actress (Born 1905) |
| 3rd of August 1993 | DEATH | Chinmayananda, Indian Vedanta Swami (Born 1916) |
| 3rd of August 1995 | DEATH | Edward Whittemore, American writer (Born 1933) |
| 3rd of August 1995 | DEATH | Ida Lupino, English actress and director (Born 1914) |
| 3rd of August 1996 | DEATH | J?rgen Garde, Danish admiral (Born 1939) |
| 3rd of August 1997 | DEATH | Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (Born 1934) |
| 3rd of August 1998 | DEATH | Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer (Born 1934) |
| 3rd of August 1999 | DEATH | Byron Farwell, American military historian (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of August 2001 | DEATH | Christopher Hewett, British actor (Born 1922) |
| 3rd of August 2002 | DEATH | Carmen Silvera, British actress (Born 1922) |
| 3rd of August 2002 | DEATH | Niculita Secrieriu, Romanian painter (Born 1938) |
| 3rd of August 2003 | DEATH | Roger Voudouris, American singer and songwriter (Born 1954) |
| 3rd of August 2004 | DEATH | Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (Born 1908) |
| 3rd of August 2004 | DEATH | Bob Murphy, American TV and radio broadcaster (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of August 2005 | DEATH | Francoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (Born 1920) |
| 3rd of August 2006 | DEATH | Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Love) (Born 1945) |
| 3rd of August 2006 | DEATH | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born British opera singer (Born 1915) |
| 3rd of August 2007 | DEATH | John Gardner, British author (Born 1926) |
| 3rd of August 2008 | DEATH | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (Born 1918) |
| 3rd of August 2008 | DEATH | Skip Caray, American TV and radio broadcaster (Born 1939) |
| 3rd of August 2008 | DEATH | Erik Darling, American folk singer-songwriter (Born 1933) |