On This Day — January 3
4489 noted people were born and 2161 died on January 3 in our archive, including Ettore Marchiafava, Jean-Louis Koszul and Mischa Dohler.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 3
Ettore Marchiafava
1847 – 1935
Jean-Louis Koszul
1921 – 2018
Mischa Dohler
b. 1975
Akhilesh K. Gaharwar
b. 1982
Carla Anderson Hills
b. 1934
Charles Piazzi Smyth
1817 – 1900
Charles-Marie de Féletz
1767 – 1850
Clement Attlee
1883 – 1967
Deepak Lal
1940 – 2020
Doreen Massey
1944 – 2016
Ernest Tytus Bandrowski
1853 – 1920
Ghulam Murtaza
b. 1939
Gordon Moore
1929 – 2023
Herman Johannes Lam
1892 – 1977
Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska
1941 – 2024
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892 – 1973
James Moran
b. 1943
Kazimierz Vetulani
1889 – 1941
Klaus Praefcke
1933 – 2013
Louis Poinsot
1777 – 1859
Luc Ferry
b. 1951
László Sólyom
1942 – 2023
Michèle Audin
1954 – 2025
Moshé Prywes
1914 – 1998
Piero Cipollone
b. 1962
Raewyn Connell
b. 1944
Ralph Vary Chamberlin
1879 – 1967
Ramón Posada y Soto
1746 – 1815
Richard Bedford
b. 1945
Richard M. Karp
b. 1935
Rory Stewart
b. 1973
Stéphane Israël
b. 1971
Vernon A. Walters
1917 – 2002
W. Michael Blumenthal
b. 1926
Wiesław Śmigiel
b. 1969
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi
1923 – 2014
Agustín Romero
b. 1975
Ahatanhel Krymsky
1871 – 1942
Ahmed Osman
b. 1930
Aleksander Kropiwnicki
b. 1962
Alexander Lazarev
1938 – 2011
Alexey Stakhanov
1906 – 1977
Ali Masimov
b. 1953
Alla Gerber
b. 1932
Anatoly Kulomzin
1838 – 1923
Angela Ruggiero
b. 1980
Anna Yurievna Kuznetsova
b. 1982
Antoine Audo
b. 1946
Arunava Sen
b. 1959
Bernardo de la Maza
b. 1946
Björn Söder
b. 1976
Bohdan Andrusyshyn
b. 1958
Brad Parscale
b. 1976
Camille Matignon
1867 – 1934
Carl Goos
1835 – 1917
Cesare Correnti
1815 – 1888
Charles Pelham Villiers
1802 – 1898
Charles W. Mills
1951 – 2021
Christophe Castaner
b. 1966
Corinna Ulcigrai
b. 1980
Cyril of Bulgaria
1901 – 1971
Dante Giacosa
1905 – 1996
David A. Eisner
b. 1955
David Fahrenthold
b. 1978
David Starkey
b. 1945
Dmitry Chelkak
b. 1979
Dorothy Arzner
1897 – 1979
Edward E. Johnston
1918 – 2011
Eiichiro Washio
b. 1977
Erik Larson
b. 1954
Ernest Denis
1849 – 1921
Esperanza Aguirre, Countess of Bornos
b. 1952
Eva Copa
b. 1987
Falcone Lucifero
1898 – 1997
Ferry Sonneville
1931 – 2003
Filzä Xämidullin
1936 – 2022
Francis Ley
1846 – 1916
Franck Riester
b. 1974
Franz Cumont
1868 – 1947
François Thureau-Dangin
1872 – 1944
Frederick William Hope
1797 – 1862
Fyodor Yurchikhin
b. 1959
Félix Dupanloup
1802 – 1878
Galvin Lee Kuan Sian
b. 2001
Gary Nairn
1951 – 2024
George Greenwood
1850 – 1928
George Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore
1871 – 1957
George Martin
1926 – 2016
Gianfranco Fini
b. 1952
Giovanni Lajolo
b. 1935
Giovanni Treccani
1877 – 1961
Glenn Sterle
b. 1960
Grace Coolidge
1879 – 1957
Guillermo Fariñas
b. 1962
Guy Ryder
b. 1956
György Gémesi
b. 1956
Hansford T. Johnson
b. 1936
Helen Parkhurst
1887 – 1973
Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton
1902 – 1996
Henryk Skarżyński
b. 1954
Hideo Usui
b. 1939
Hirofumi Ryu
b. 1965
Ian Allan
1916 – 2000
Isaji Tanaka
1906 – 1987
Ivan Seleznyov
1856 – 1936
Iván Espinosa de los Monteros y de Simón
b. 1971
Izabella Bashmakova
1921 – 2005
Jacob Hacker
b. 1971
James Rood Doolittle
1815 – 1897
James Stephen
1789 – 1859
Jan Baszkiewicz
1930 – 2011
Jan Kmenta
1928 – 2016
Janaki Ballav Patnaik
1927 – 2015
Jaswant Singh
1938 – 2020
Jean-Pierre Charbonneau
b. 1950
Jiří Maštálka
b. 1956
Johannes Steuchius
1676 – 1742
Johannes von Müller
1752 – 1809
John Bamborough
1921 – 2009
John Cameron
1773 – 1844
John Lesinski, Sr.
1885 – 1950
John R. Schmidhauser
1922 – 2018
Joko Anwar
b. 1976
Jonas Vileišis
1872 – 1942
Jonathan Vance
b. 1964
Joseph-Benoît Suvée
1743 – 1807
José Miguel Vivanco
b. 1961
Judith Tizard
b. 1956
Juhan Telgmaa
b. 1946
Justin Chang
b. 1983
Jōtarō Kawakami
1889 – 1965
Katie Geneva Cannon
1950 – 2018
Katie Porter
b. 1974
Ken Young
1943 – 2019
Kilnam Chon
b. 1943
Lindsay Heathcote Briggs
1905 – 1975
Linh Nga
b. 1982
Liu Chao-Han
b. 1939
Luigi Premazzi
1814 – 1891
Luís Carlos Prestes
1898 – 1990
Manuel Mestre Barea
b. 1952
Marc Morial
b. 1958
Marc Veasey
b. 1971
Marie Darrieussecq
b. 1969
Matthew Nathan
1862 – 1939
Michael Schumacher
b. 1969
Michael Žantovský
b. 1949
Mick McGuire
b. 1965
Mikhail Eremets
1949 – 2024
Miron Sycz
1960 – 2024
Mohamed Benaissa
1937 – 2025
Mohamed Waheed Hassan
b. 1953
Mohammed Alim Khan
1880 – 1944
Ned Lamont
b. 1954
Ngô Đình Diệm
1901 – 1963
Nicola Spaldin
b. 1969
Nicolas Hieronimus
b. 1964
Nicolás Eyzaguirre
b. 1953
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu
1905 – 1987
Norma Elia Cantú
b. 1947
Ogtay Asadov
b. 1955
Paul E. Meehl
1920 – 2003
Paweł Wojciechowski
b. 1960
Pierre Dervaux
1917 – 1992
R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
1924 – 2015
Richard Kerner
b. 1943
Risvan Kurbanov
b. 1961
Robert Olmstead
b. 1954
Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell
b. 1938
Robin Mansell
b. 1952
Roman Fritz
b. 1966
Serge Sauneron
1927 – 1976
Setsuko Thurlow
b. 1932
Stanisław Szeptycki
1867 – 1950
Susanne Riess
b. 1961
Svetlana Mironyuk
b. 1968
Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
b. 1946
Teodoro Petkoff
1932 – 2018
Thomas E. Crow
b. 1948
Thor I. Fossen
b. 1963
Tsutomu Hanahara
1940 – 2024
Uladzimir Kanaplyou
b. 1954
Vasco Graça Moura
1942 – 2014
Victoria Rusoke Businge
b. 1956
Viktar Dashkevich
1945 – 2020
Vladimir Potanin
b. 1961
Walery Łoziński
1880 – 1944
Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston
1870 – 1960
William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield
1883 – 1969
Willie Cole
b. 1955
Yevgeny Zababakhin
1917 – 1984
Yulian Pelesh
1843 – 1896
Zygmunt Konieczny
b. 1937
Abdulla Jihad
b. 1963
Adrien Taquet
b. 1977
Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita
b. 1969
Albert G. Rutherford
1879 – 1941
Albert Kingwell
1863 – 1949
Alessia Morani
b. 1976
Alex Wheatle
1963 – 2025
… and 4,289 more
Died on January 3
Carl Gustav Witt
1866 – 1946
Peter Naur
1928 – 2016
Satish Dhawan
1920 – 2002
Sergei Sobolev
1908 – 1989
Abdelsalam al-Majali
1925 – 2023
Carl David Tolmé Runge
1856 – 1927
Chu Chia-hua
1893 – 1963
Conrad Hilton
1887 – 1979
Ernest Babelon
1854 – 1924
Gabriel Anton
1858 – 1933
Gustav von Schönberg
1839 – 1908
Gösta Bagge
1882 – 1951
Halima Nosirova
1913 – 2003
John Casey
1820 – 1891
José Caeiro da Mata
1877 – 1963
José Vida Soria
1937 – 2019
Julius Karl Scriba
1848 – 1905
Julius von Mohl
1800 – 1876
Karl Hase
1800 – 1890
Louis de Mas Latrie
1815 – 1897
Paul Jacques Malouin
1701 – 1778
Ruslan Khasbulatov
1942 – 2023
Shinobu Ishihara
1879 – 1963
Stephen W. Bosworth
1939 – 2016
Władysław Ślebodziński
1884 – 1972
Adam Maĺdzis
1932 – 2022
Alexander Meissner
1883 – 1958
Alexander Poskrebyshev
1891 – 1965
Alexei Mirtov
1886 – 1966
Alfredo Pizzoni
1894 – 1958
Andrzej Paczkowski
1938 – 2026
Beatrice Mintz
1921 – 2022
Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva
1826 – 1902
Bohdan Stefanowski
1883 – 1976
Carlos Tejedor
1817 – 1903
Carlotta Joaquina Maury
1874 – 1938
Charles Augustus Young
1834 – 1908
Christopher Hood
1947 – 2025
Demmus Hentze
1923 – 2016
Doc Adams
1814 – 1899
Domenico Corcione
1929 – 2020
Donald D. Clayton
1935 – 2024
Douglas Argyll Robertson
1837 – 1909
Edmund Lamb
1863 – 1925
Edward Brooke
1919 – 2015
Einar Borch
1870 – 1952
Eisaku Wada
1874 – 1959
Emmanuel Bonde
1947 – 2025
Eva Schloss
1929 – 2026
F. M. Cornford
1874 – 1943
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
1878 – 1945
Fred T. Mackenzie
1934 – 2024
Freddy Heineken
1923 – 2002
Gaston Eyskens
1905 – 1988
Geoffrey Watson
1921 – 1998
Georg Lunge
1839 – 1923
George Grogan
1875 – 1962
Georges Colomb
1856 – 1945
Georgios Drossinis
1859 – 1951
Grenville M. Dodge
1831 – 1916
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt
1925 – 2010
Günther Fielmann
1939 – 2024
Helge Jung
1886 – 1978
Henry H. Fowler
1908 – 2000
Herb Kelleher
1931 – 2019
Hideo Kobayashi
1902 – 1983
Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe
1812 – 1894
Hushang Ansary
1927 – 2026
Ian Brownlie
1932 – 2010
Igor Volk
1937 – 2017
James Halliwell-Phillipps
1820 – 1889
James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn
1838 – 1913
James Hills-Johnes
1833 – 1919
Johan Herman Lie Vogt
1858 – 1932
John Allen Shauck
1841 – 1918
John Charles Fenton
1880 – 1951
John Joseph Hughes
1797 – 1864
John M. Freeman
1933 – 2014
John Spicer
1899 – 1978
Josef Škvorecký
1924 – 2012
Joseph Joffre
1852 – 1931
Joseph Wirth
1879 – 1956
José Nicolás Matienzo
1860 – 1936
José Norton de Matos
1867 – 1955
Jyotindra Nath Dixit
1936 – 2005
Karl Evang
1902 – 1981
Kazimieras Paltarokas
1875 – 1958
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
1838 – 1898
Lee Breuer
1937 – 2021
Maxim Strauch
1900 – 1974
Millicent Carey McIntosh
1898 – 2001
Monique Wittig
1935 – 2003
Mordechai Ben-Porat
1923 – 2022
Moritz Hauptmann
1792 – 1868
Nancy B. Jackson
1956 – 2022
Nikolay Karlovich Krabbe
1814 – 1876
Nikolay Rumyantsev
1754 – 1826
Olaus Verelius
1618 – 1682
Oleksandr Tkachenko
1939 – 2024
Rachel Félix
1821 – 1858
Randhir Prasad Verma
1952 – 1991
Raoul de Pugno
1852 – 1914
Reuben Hersh
1927 – 2020
Richard Collins, Baron Collins
1842 – 1911
Semyon Kosberg
1903 – 1965
Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet
1810 – 1876
Tariana Turia
1944 – 2025
Thomas Herbert Johnson
1902 – 1985
Thomas McMurtry
1935 – 2015
Uchida Kakichi
1866 – 1933
Vaclovas Biržiška
1884 – 1956
Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill
1864 – 1934
Vladimir Sargsyan
1935 – 2013
Walter Cunningham
1932 – 2023
Walter James
1863 – 1943
Werner Dollinger
1918 – 2008
Will Eisner
1917 – 2005
William Robert Poage
1899 – 1987
Winthrop More Daniels
1867 – 1944
Wolfgang Brezinka
1928 – 2020
Abraham Offer
1922 – 1977
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
1954 – 2020
Adam Mabane
1734 – 1792
Adolf von Glümer
1814 – 1896
Albert Gorton Greene
1802 – 1868
Alberto Iniesta Jiménez
1923 – 2016
Aleksandr Abdulov
1953 – 2008
Alexander Gretchaninov
1864 – 1956
Alexandros Papadiamantis
1851 – 1911
Alfred Braun
1888 – 1978
Alfred Sao-ke Sze
1877 – 1958
Ali Taher
1961 – 2021
Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi
1949 – 2026
Ambalavaner Sivanandan
1923 – 2018
Ambika Dhurandhar
1912 – 2009
Amelia Gayle Gorgas
1826 – 1913
Anatoliy Skorokhod
1930 – 2011
Anatoly Karelin
1922 – 1974
Andreas Grimelund
1812 – 1896
Andres Taimla
1947 – 2022
Andrew Patrick O'Rourke
1933 – 2013
Andrew Pyper
1968 – 2025
Anton Braith
1836 – 1905
Arne Hestenes
1920 – 1995
Arnold Diestel
1857 – 1924
Arnold Edward Ortmann
1863 – 1927
Arseny Koreshchenko
1870 – 1921
Arturo Alemparte
1878 – 1944
Asano Nagatake
1895 – 1969
Aurelio Menéndez Menéndez
1927 – 2018
Barbara Fei
1931 – 2017
Bhagirathi Nepak
1931 – 2007
Bill Skate
1953 – 2006
Bob Burrow
1934 – 2019
Burton E. Sweet
1867 – 1957
Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez
1878 – 1958
Carl F. Eyring
1889 – 1951
Carlos Vaz Ferreira
1872 – 1958
Charles L. Knapp
1847 – 1929
Charles O. Jones
1931 – 2024
Charles Townley
1737 – 1805
Christine de Rivoyre
1921 – 2019
Cipe Pineles
1908 – 1991
Clarence Eugene Hancock
1885 – 1948
Claës Lindsström
1876 – 1964
Clement Claiborne Clay
1816 – 1882
Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
1714 – 1800
Cécile Rouleau
1905 – 1999
David L. MacFarlane
1893 – 1953
David M. Maddox
1938 – 2026
Deborah Griscom Passmore
1840 – 1911
Des Corcoran
1928 – 2004
Douglas N. Walton
1942 – 2020
Dunc Munro
1901 – 1958
Edgar Wilson
1861 – 1915
Edmund Barrow
1852 – 1934
Edward P. Kirby
1928 – 2017
Elliott Northcott
1869 – 1946
Emilie Lieberherr
1924 – 2011
Emmet D. Boyle
1879 – 1926
Ernest Archdeacon
1863 – 1950
Ernest Howard Crosby
1856 – 1907
Ernesto Palacio
1900 – 1979
Erwin Dain Canham
1904 – 1982
Erwin Gohrbandt
1890 – 1965
Fadil Hadžić
1922 – 2011
Felix Dahn
1834 – 1912
Flóra Kádár
1928 – 2003
Francis Amhurst
1842 – 1881
Frank Belknap Long
1901 – 1994
Frank Duveneck
1848 – 1919
Frank Haven Hall
1841 – 1911
Franz Reichleitner
1906 – 1944
Franz Toula
1845 – 1920
Fraňo Kráľ
1903 – 1955
Georg Nees
1926 – 2016
Georg Perthes
1869 – 1927
Georg Wetzell
1869 – 1947
George F. Bond
1915 – 1983
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
1608 – 1670
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