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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of February 0313 | EVENT | Edict of Milan: Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius met at a conference in Milan. They proclaimed a policy of religious freedom, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. |
| 3rd of February 1112 | EVENT | Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. |
| 3rd of February 1377 | EVENT | More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath). |
| 3rd of February 1451 | EVENT | Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 3rd of February 1488 | EVENT | Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south. |
| 3rd of February 1509 | EVENT | The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India. |
| 3rd of February 1534 | EVENT | The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England. |
| 3rd of February 1637 | EVENT | Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts. |
| 3rd of February 1690 | EVENT | The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America. |
| 3rd of February 1706 | EVENT | During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment. |
| 3rd of February 1781 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Saint Eustatius. |
| 3rd of February 1783 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence. |
| 3rd of February 1787 | EVENT | Shays' Rebellion is crushed. |
| 3rd of February 1807 | EVENT | A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay. |
| 3rd of February 1809 | EVENT | The Illinois Territory is created. |
| 3rd of February 1813 | EVENT | Jose de San Martin defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence. |
| 3rd of February 1830 | EVENT | The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol. |
| 3rd of February 1834 | EVENT | Wake Forest University is established. |
| 3rd of February 1852 | EVENT | Justo Jose de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros. |
| 3rd of February 1870 | EVENT | The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race. |
| 3rd of February 1900 | EVENT | Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky. |
| 3rd of February 1913 | EVENT | The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax. |
| 3rd of February 1916 | EVENT | Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down. |
| 3rd of February 1917 | EVENT | World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. |
| 3rd of February 1918 | EVENT | The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long. |
| 3rd of February 1931 | EVENT | The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258. |
| 3rd of February 1943 | EVENT | The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story. |
| 3rd of February 1944 | EVENT | World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison. |
| 3rd of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. |
| 3rd of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000. |
| 3rd of February 1947 | EVENT | The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon. |
| 3rd of February 1957 | EVENT | Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS). |
| 3rd of February 1958 | EVENT | Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. |
| 3rd of February 1959 | EVENT | A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died. |
| 3rd of February 1960 | EVENT | British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation. |
| 3rd of February 1961 | EVENT | The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. |
| 3rd of February 1961 | EVENT | A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars. |
| 3rd of February 1966 | EVENT | The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. |
| 3rd of February 1967 | EVENT | Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. |
| 3rd of February 1969 | EVENT | In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress. |
| 3rd of February 1971 | EVENT | New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him. |
| 3rd of February 1972 | EVENT | The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history. |
| 3rd of February 1984 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. |
| 3rd of February 1984 | EVENT | John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. |
| 3rd of February 1988 | EVENT | Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras. |
| 3rd of February 1989 | EVENT | After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months. |
| 3rd of February 1989 | EVENT | A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. |
| 3rd of February 1995 | EVENT | Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
| 3rd of February 1996 | EVENT | The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China. |
| 3rd of February 1998 | EVENT | Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. |
| 3rd of February 1998 | EVENT | Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy. |
| 3rd of February 2007 | EVENT | A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. |
| 3rd of February 2011 | EVENT | All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities. |
| 3rd of February 1338 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378) |
| 3rd of February 1677 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723) |
| 3rd of February 1689 | BIRTHDAY | Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (d. 1741) |
| 3rd of February 1690 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755) |
| 3rd of February 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773) |
| 3rd of February 1747 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Osgood, American patriot (d. 1813) |
| 3rd of February 1777 | BIRTHDAY | John Cheyne, British physician, surgeon and author (d. 1836) |
| 3rd of February 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Jose de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830) |
| 3rd of February 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph E. Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1891) |
| 3rd of February 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess of Prussia (d. 1877) |
| 3rd of February 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847) |
| 3rd of February 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872) |
| 3rd of February 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881) |
| 3rd of February 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910) |
| 3rd of February 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894) |
| 3rd of February 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Bagehot, English essayist, journalist and businessman (d. 1877) |
| 3rd of February 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903) |
| 3rd of February 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881) |
| 3rd of February 1843 | BIRTHDAY | William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915) |
| 3rd of February 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor (d. 1935) |
| 3rd of February 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935) |
| 3rd of February 1862 | BIRTHDAY | James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946) |
| 3rd of February 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934) |
| 3rd of February 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946) |
| 3rd of February 1876 | BIRTHDAY | William Tedmarsh, English-born American silent movie actor (d. 1937) |
| 3rd of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Negrin, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956) |
| 3rd of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914) |
| 3rd of February 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (d. 1968) |
| 3rd of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978) |
| 3rd of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978) |
| 3rd of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976) |
| 3rd of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Cafe Filho, Brazilian president (d. 1970) |
| 3rd of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Speed, English actress (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966) |
| 3rd of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975) |
| 3rd of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934) |
| 3rd of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Beurling, Swedish/American mathematician(d. 1986) |
| 3rd of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | James Michener, American author (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Cayatte, French filmmaker (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943) |
| 3rd of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940) |
| 3rd of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer |
| 3rd of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939) |
| 3rd of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver |
| 3rd of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Heimlich, American physician |
| 3rd of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Alys Robi, Canadian singer |
| 3rd of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Martial Asselin, Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Quebec |
| 3rd of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | E. P. Thompson, English socialist historian, (The Making of the English Working Class), (d. 1993) |
| 3rd of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Dunstan, Australian author and journalist |
| 3rd of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | John Fiedler, American voice actor (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council |
| 3rd of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician |
| 3rd of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Shelley Berman, American comedian |
| 3rd of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker |
| 3rd of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer |
| 3rd of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Vaughan, English singer (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Shipp, American football coach |
| 3rd of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gillian Ayres, English painter |
| 3rd of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984) |
| 3rd of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sarbanes, American politician |
| 3rd of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Carlos Calabro, Argentine actor |
| 3rd of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Marshall, American photographer (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Meier, Swiss ufologist |
| 3rd of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands boxer |
| 3rd of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 3rd of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cimino, American film director |
| 3rd of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Fran Tarkenton, American football player |
| 3rd of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler |
| 3rd of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982) |
| 3rd of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bridget Hanley, American actress |
| 3rd of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Blythe Danner, American actress |
| 3rd of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations) |
| 3rd of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Phillips, American singer, guitarist and songwriter |
| 3rd of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress |
| 3rd of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993) |
| 3rd of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Griese, American football player |
| 3rd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Davies, English musician (The Kinks) |
| 3rd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter |
| 3rd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Auster, American novelist |
| 3rd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor |
| 3rd of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorese politician, Nobel Peace laureate |
| 3rd of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Henning Mankell, Swedish author |
| 3rd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Kane, American musician (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Palma, American musician |
| 3rd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist |
| 3rd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Fairchild, American actress |
| 3rd of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager |
| 3rd of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Lynn, American baseball player |
| 3rd of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician |
| 3rd of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist |
| 3rd of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist |
| 3rd of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Jefferson, American football player |
| 3rd of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Lane, American actor |
| 3rd of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth) |
| 3rd of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Stapleton, English musician (Nurse With Wound) |
| 3rd of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Chico Serra, Brazilian racing driver |
| 3rd of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Joe F. Edwards, Jr., American astronaut |
| 3rd of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist |
| 3rd of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five) |
| 3rd of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Lol Tolhurst, English musician (The Cure) |
| 3rd of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Calabro, American actor |
| 3rd of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ferzan Ozpetek, Turkish cinema director |
| 3rd of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1993) |
| 3rd of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Loew, German football manager |
| 3rd of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Eder, American singer |
| 3rd of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Gordon, American actor |
| 3rd of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Adams, American skateboarder |
| 3rd of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Greene, American actress |
| 3rd of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Jannetty, American professional wrestler |
| 3rd of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Raghuram Rajan, American economist |
| 3rd of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician |
| 3rd of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Kinmont, American actress |
| 3rd of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Maura Tierney, American actress |
| 3rd of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Coraci, American film director |
| 3rd of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Patavoukas, Greek basketball player |
| 3rd of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Taylor, English footballer |
| 3rd of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Benson Phillips, English children's TV presenter |
| 3rd of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mixu Paatelainen, Finnish footballer and coach |
| 3rd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Vlade Divac, Serbian basketball player |
| 3rd of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Retief Goosen, South African golfer |
| 3rd of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Pack, American basketball player |
| 3rd of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer |
| 3rd of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Warwick Davis, English actor |
| 3rd of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Elisa Donovan, American actress |
| 3rd of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Dawkins, American football player |
| 3rd of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Elbaz, French actor |
| 3rd of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Rockwilder, American hip-hop/R&B producer |
| 3rd of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor |
| 3rd of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jesper Kyd, Danish film and video game music composer |
| 3rd of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mart Poom, Estonian footballer |
| 3rd of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist |
| 3rd of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Konrad Ga?ka, Polish swimmer |
| 3rd of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress |
| 3rd of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Meadows, American pornographic actress |
| 3rd of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dwayne Rudd, American football player |
| 3rd of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Isla Fisher, Scottish-Australian actress |
| 3rd of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Heidecker, American comedian |
| 3rd of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican reggaeton singer/rapper |
| 3rd of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian R'Mante, American actor |
| 3rd of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer |
| 3rd of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer |
| 3rd of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Lewitinn, American writer |
| 3rd of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kim E-Z, former member of the Korean girl group, Baby V.O.X. |
| 3rd of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alisa Reyes, American actress and singer |
| 3rd of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Ross, Scottish footballer |
| 3rd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver |
| 3rd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers) |
| 3rd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bartel, American football player |
| 3rd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Silambarasan Rajendar, Indian Tamil actor |
| 3rd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster |
| 3rd of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Carbonero, Spanish TV presenter and journalist |
| 3rd of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player |
| 3rd of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kyuhyun, South Korean singer (Super Junior) |
| 3rd of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Redomi, Italian footballer |
| 3rd of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory van der Wiel, Dutch footballer |
| 3rd of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Slobodan Rajkovic, Serbian footballer |
| 3rd of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Ryne Sanborn, American actor |
| 3rd of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Kingston, Jamaican/American singer/rapper |
| 3rd of February 0619 | DEATH | Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 3rd of February 0699 | DEATH | Saint Werburgh |
| 3rd of February 1014 | DEATH | King Sweyn I of Denmark |
| 3rd of February 1116 | DEATH | King Coloman of Hungary (Born 1070) |
| 3rd of February 1399 | DEATH | John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (Born 1340) |
| 3rd of February 1428 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (Born 1386) |
| 3rd of February 1451 | DEATH | Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1404) |
| 3rd of February 1468 | DEATH | Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher |
| 3rd of February 1549 | DEATH | Sri Suriyothai, Chief Queen of Ayutthaya |
| 3rd of February 1566 | DEATH | George Cassander, Flemish theologian (Born 1513) |
| 3rd of February 1619 | DEATH | Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (Born 1564) |
| 3rd of February 1737 | DEATH | Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (Born 1648) |
| 3rd of February 1802 | DEATH | Pedro Rodriguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (Born 1723) |
| 3rd of February 1832 | DEATH | George Crabbe, English naturalist (Born 1754) |
| 3rd of February 1862 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (Born 1774) |
| 3rd of February 1866 | DEATH | Francois-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (Born 1809) |
| 3rd of February 1873 | DEATH | Isaac Baker Brown, English gynaecologist and surgeon (Born 1811) |
| 3rd of February 1874 | DEATH | King William Charles Lunalilo of Hawai?i (Born 1835) |
| 3rd of February 1889 | DEATH | Belle Starr, American outlaw (Born 1848) |
| 3rd of February 1922 | DEATH | John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (Born 1839) |
| 3rd of February 1924 | DEATH | Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (Born 1856) |
| 3rd of February 1929 | DEATH | Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (Born 1878) |
| 3rd of February 1935 | DEATH | Hugo Junkers, German engineer (Born 1859) |
| 3rd of February 1936 | DEATH | Sophie of Schonburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (Born 1885) |
| 3rd of February 1937 | DEATH | Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (Born 1887) |
| 3rd of February 1945 | DEATH | Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (Born 1893) |
| 3rd of February 1947 | DEATH | Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (Born 1887) |
| 3rd of February 1952 | DEATH | Harold L. Ickes, American administrator and politician (Born 1874) |
| 3rd of February 1955 | DEATH | Vasili Blokhin, Soviet Union executioner (Born 1895) |
| 3rd of February 1956 | DEATH | Emile Borel, French mathematician (Born 1871) |
| 3rd of February 1956 | DEATH | Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (Born 1916) |
| 3rd of February 1959 | DEATH | The Day the Music Died Buddy Holly, American singer (Born 1936) Roger Peterson, pilot (b. 1937) Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941) J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930) |
| 3rd of February 1960 | DEATH | Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of February 1961 | DEATH | Viscount Dunrossil, Australian governor-general (Born 1893) |
| 3rd of February 1964 | DEATH | Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (Born 1880) |
| 3rd of February 1967 | DEATH | Joe Meek, English record producer (Born 1929) |
| 3rd of February 1969 | DEATH | Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican independence founder (Born 1920) |
| 3rd of February 1975 | DEATH | William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (Born 1873) |
| 3rd of February 1975 | DEATH | Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of February 1985 | DEATH | Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (Born 1912) |
| 3rd of February 1989 | DEATH | John Cassavetes, American actor (Born 1929) |
| 3rd of February 1989 | DEATH | Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (Born 1916) |
| 3rd of February 1991 | DEATH | Nancy Kulp, American actress (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of February 1991 | DEATH | Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (Born 1912) |
| 3rd of February 1998 | DEATH | Fat Pat, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (Born 1970) |
| 3rd of February 1998 | DEATH | Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (Born 1959) |
| 3rd of February 2003 | DEATH | Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (Born 1962) |
| 3rd of February 2004 | DEATH | Jason Raize, American actor (Born 1975) |
| 3rd of February 2009 | DEATH | Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain. (Born 1930) |
| 3rd of February 2010 | DEATH | Regina, Crown Princess of Austria (Born 1925) |
| 3rd of February 2011 | DEATH | Maria Schneider, French actress (Born 1952) |