On This Day — February 3
4249 noted people were born and 2181 died on February 3 in our archive, including Arne Beurling, Gaston Julia and Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 3
Arne Beurling
1905 – 1986
Gaston Julia
1893 – 1978
Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen
1857 – 1927
Abel Hermant
1861 – 1950
Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse
1817 – 1881
Angela D. Friederici
b. 1952
Arief Hidayat
b. 1956
Arthur Levitt
b. 1931
Beau Biden
1969 – 2015
Bruno Touschek
1921 – 1978
Carolyn W. Burns
b. 1942
Eric Lander
b. 1957
Frederick Marshman Bailey
1882 – 1967
Georg-Maria Schwab
1899 – 1984
Greg Mankiw
b. 1958
Günter Henle
1899 – 1979
Hrvoje Tkalčić
b. 1970
Ignacy Koschembahr-Łyskowski
1864 – 1945
Irina Rukavishnikova
b. 1973
Ivone Kirkpatrick
1897 – 1964
Jacques Soustelle
1912 – 1990
Jan Donner
1891 – 1981
John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner
1859 – 1934
John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud
1906 – 1982
Joëlle Proust
b. 1947
Lars Vegard
1880 – 1963
Lauritz Jenssen Dorenfeldt
1909 – 1997
Manoj Durairaj
b. 1971
Miroslav Wlachovský
b. 1970
Paul Scherrer
1890 – 1969
Paweł Soloch
b. 1962
Peter Zajac
b. 1946
Petr Moos
1946 – 2024
Raghuram Rajan
b. 1963
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
1830 – 1903
Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield
1904 – 1996
Siddalingaiah
1954 – 2021
Spencer Fullerton Baird
1823 – 1887
Steve Maharey
b. 1953
Steven G. Krantz
b. 1951
Stuart Hall
1932 – 2014
Stéphane Le Foll
b. 1960
Vyacheslav Shverikas
1961 – 2021
Zbigniew Rau
b. 1955
Abid Hassan Minto
b. 1932
Adia Barnes
b. 1977
Akbar Etemad
1930 – 2025
Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond
b. 1941
Alexandros Mavrokordatos
1791 – 1865
Amal Clooney
b. 1978
André Antoine
b. 1960
Anna Maria Tarantola
b. 1945
Antoine Duquesne
1941 – 2010
Antonio Maria Vegliò
b. 1938
Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington
1807 – 1884
Benjamin Jaurès
1823 – 1889
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
b. 1948
Catherine Samie
1933 – 2026
Chan Man Ki Maggie
b. 1969
Charles Adiel Lewis Totten
1851 – 1908
Christine Jones Forman
b. 1949
Claude Pierre Pajol
1772 – 1844
Dana Levin
b. 1965
Daniel Sandford
1798 – 1838
Domenico Calcagno
b. 1943
E. P. Thompson
1924 – 1993
Earl Schuyler Kleinhans
1905 – 1996
Eduardo Ulibarri
b. 1952
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten
1830 – 1913
Elizabeth Holmes
b. 1984
Elizabeth Povinelli
b. 1962
Epiphanius
b. 1979
Ernst von Wildenbruch
1845 – 1909
Eugeniusz Romer
1871 – 1954
Fanula Papazoglu
1917 – 2001
Felix Mendelssohn
1809 – 1847
Francis Richard Plunkett
1835 – 1907
Franco Reviglio
1935 – 2025
Frederick Montizambert
1843 – 1929
Fredrik Paasche
1886 – 1943
George Armitage Miller
1920 – 2012
George E. Felton
1921 – 2019
George Harris, 4th Baron Harris
1851 – 1932
Gideon Mantell
1790 – 1852
Gilbert Collard
b. 1948
Gustave Rouland
1806 – 1878
Hajime Tanabe
1885 – 1962
Hans-Jochen Vogel
1926 – 2020
Hassan Firouzabadi
1951 – 2021
Heather Croall
b. 1967
Heidi Nordby Lunde
b. 1973
Hermann Henselmann
1905 – 1995
Hiroko Kuniya
b. 1957
Hiroo Inokuchi
1927 – 2014
Hodding Carter
1907 – 1972
Hugo Junkers
1859 – 1935
Hugo Munthe-Kaas
1922 – 2012
Huntington Hardisty
1929 – 2003
Ignacy Krasicki
1735 – 1801
Ilona Banga
1906 – 1998
Indrek Tarand
b. 1964
Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers
b. 1970
Isabella Lövin
b. 1963
Izzeldin Abuelaish
b. 1955
J. Roy Rowland
1926 – 2022
Jacqueline van Rysselberghe
b. 1965
James A. Michener
1907 – 1997
James Clark McReynolds
1862 – 1946
James Maury
1746 – 1840
Jean Starcky
1909 – 1988
Jerome Krase
b. 1943
Joe F. Edwards
b. 1958
Johannes Gezelius
1615 – 1690
John Barrell
b. 1943
Jose Antonio Vargas
b. 1981
Joseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge
1804 – 1883
Juan Alberto Belloch
b. 1950
Juan Negrín
1892 – 1956
Jørgen Løvland
1848 – 1922
K. VijayRaghavan
b. 1954
Karl Christian Ulmann
1793 – 1871
Katie Britt
b. 1982
Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung
1822 – 1908
Kirsty Wark
b. 1955
Laine Mägi
b. 1959
Lao She
1899 – 1966
Louis Kauffman
b. 1945
Luboš Dobrovský
1932 – 2020
László Palkovics
b. 1965
Marion Maddox
1965 – 2025
Marius Crainic
b. 1973
Marjo Matikainen-Kallström
b. 1965
Maximilien Sebastien Foy
1775 – 1825
Mequitta Ahuja
b. 1976
Michele S. Swanson
b. 1960
Mitchell Joachim
b. 1972
Mizuno Rentarō
1868 – 1949
Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya
b. 1948
Nadezhda A. Agaltsova
b. 1938
Nando Bodha
b. 1954
Nikola Stoyanov
1874 – 1967
Oazu Nantoi
b. 1948
Oleg Manaev
b. 1952
Otto Theodor von Manteuffel
1805 – 1882
Patrick Cramer
b. 1969
Paul Auster
1947 – 2024
Paul O'Sullivan
b. 1948
Paul Sarbanes
1933 – 2020
Pavel Klinichev
b. 1974
Philippe Takla
1915 – 2006
Pierre Howard
b. 1943
Polde Bibič
1933 – 2012
Ralph Asher Alpher
1921 – 2007
Ramón María Aller Ulloa
1878 – 1966
Risto Ryti
1889 – 1956
Rob Wittman
b. 1959
Robert Fulke Greville
1751 – 1824
Saba Mahmood
1961 – 2018
Salil Shetty
b. 1961
Samuel Osgood
1748 – 1813
Schwester Selma
1884 – 1984
Semyon Bogatyrev
1890 – 1960
Serge Dumont
b. 1960
Shigeru Iwasaki
b. 1953
Shirane Senichi
1850 – 1898
Shlomo Goren
1917 – 1994
Sima Samar
b. 1957
Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet
1831 – 1901
Sodiq Safoyev
b. 1954
Soledad Puértolas
b. 1947
Sue Ion
b. 1955
Sándor Csoóri
1930 – 2016
Takashi Nagai
1908 – 1951
Tanigawa Shūzen
b. 1934
Tao Tsuchiya
b. 1995
Teresa Marinovic
b. 1973
Thomas Swann
1809 – 1883
Uri Eppstein
1925 – 2025
Vladimir Lidin
1894 – 1979
Volodymyr Shcherbyna
1935 – 2023
Walter Bagehot
1826 – 1877
Willem Adelaar
b. 1948
William Cornelius Van Horne
1843 – 1915
William Dameron Guthrie
1859 – 1935
William Jackson Humphreys
1862 – 1949
Xavier de Planhol
1926 – 2016
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov
1942 – 2020
Yuriy Tarnawsky
1934 – 2025
Zdravko Marić
b. 1977
Aaron Estrada
b. 2001
Abu Bakar of Johor
1833 – 1895
Akira Sakaya
1870 – 1946
Aksel Jørgensen
1883 – 1957
Albert Füracker
b. 1968
Aleksei Stetskii
1896 – 1938
Aleksey Rumyantsev
1905 – 1993
Alexander Mordvilko
1867 – 1938
Alexinia Baldwin
1925 – 2017
Aleš Veselý
1935 – 2015
Alvar Aalto
1898 – 1976
… and 4,049 more
Died on February 3
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov
1903 – 1994
C. H. D. Buys Ballot
1817 – 1890
Jean-Baptiste Biot
1774 – 1862
Martin Gilbert
1936 – 2015
Thomas Kirkman
1806 – 1895
Victor Loret
1859 – 1946
Abraham Lempel
1936 – 2023
Adolf Berman
1906 – 1978
Andrzej Szczeklik
1938 – 2012
Boris Chicherin
1828 – 1904
Christian Bohr
1855 – 1911
Christos Sartzetakis
1929 – 2022
David Kessler
1959 – 2020
Edward Charles Pickering
1846 – 1919
Ernst Mayr
1904 – 2005
George Steiner
1929 – 2020
Gyula Moór
1888 – 1950
Harold L. Ickes
1874 – 1952
Henry James Sumner Maine
1822 – 1888
J Harlen Bretz
1882 – 1981
Jüri Pihl
1954 – 2019
Marius Roustan
1870 – 1942
Mercedes Richards
1955 – 2016
René Massigli
1888 – 1988
Robert Yerkes
1876 – 1956
Shevah Weiss
1935 – 2023
Shumon Miura
1926 – 2017
William George MacCallum
1874 – 1944
Woodrow Wilson
1856 – 1924
Yoshirō Hayashi
1927 – 2017
Zygmunt Fedorowicz
1889 – 1973
Émile Borel
1871 – 1956
Aarre Simonen
1913 – 1977
András Rapcsák
1943 – 2002
August Horch
1868 – 1951
Ben Gazzara
1930 – 2012
C. N. Annadurai
1909 – 1969
Cardiss Collins
1931 – 2013
Carl Ludwig Blume
1796 – 1862
Carlos Noguera
1943 – 2015
Charles Ferster
1922 – 1981
Charlotte Bühler
1893 – 1974
Corrado Bafile
1903 – 2005
David D. Barrett
1892 – 1977
Dieter Mann
1941 – 2022
Edgar Allen
1892 – 1943
Edmond Frémy
1814 – 1894
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane
1920 – 1969
Edward H. Kraus
1875 – 1973
Ellen Clara Sabin
1850 – 1949
Ferdinand Meldahl
1827 – 1908
Frank H. T. Rhodes
1926 – 2020
Frank Oppenheimer
1912 – 1985
Frederick Copleston
1907 – 1994
Frederick John Jackson
1860 – 1929
Friedrich Jeckeln
1895 – 1946
Georg von Oettingen
1824 – 1916
Gilles Fauconnier
1944 – 2021
Giuseppe Cerutti
1738 – 1792
Gregor von Helmersen
1803 – 1885
Gyrithe Lemche
1866 – 1945
Hans Lassen Martensen
1808 – 1884
Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
1564 – 1619
Herbert Busemann
1905 – 1994
Hugo Junkers
1859 – 1935
Ichikawa Danjūrō XII
1946 – 2013
Italo Gariboldi
1879 – 1970
Iwao Matsuda
1937 – 2022
James Patrick Sutton
1915 – 2005
Jan Nepomuk Woldřich
1834 – 1906
Jared Mansfield
1759 – 1830
Jarosław Rymkiewicz
1935 – 2022
Joan Mondale
1930 – 2014
John Henry Michell
1863 – 1940
John Henry Whitley
1866 – 1935
John Hirst
1942 – 2016
John Michael Hayes
1940 – 2017
John S. Service
1909 – 1999
Joop van der Reijden
1927 – 2006
Jürgen Schmude
1936 – 2025
Kay Brownbill
1914 – 2002
Lee H. Hamilton
1931 – 2026
Louis de Jaucourt
1704 – 1779
Madis Milling
1970 – 2022
Manuel Bromberg
1917 – 2022
Manuel Díez-Alegría
1905 – 1987
Michael Burawoy
1947 – 2025
Morell Mackenzie
1837 – 1892
Narciso Ramos
1900 – 1986
Nicolás Lindley López
1908 – 1995
Nikaidō Susumu
1909 – 2000
Nikolai Plotnikov
1897 – 1979
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu
1905 – 1987
Oliver Heaviside
1850 – 1925
Otto Arndt
1920 – 1992
Pedro Muguruza
1893 – 1952
Petar Živković
1879 – 1947
Pyotr Andreevich Kleinmichel
1793 – 1869
René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes
1762 – 1837
Richard Lyon
1923 – 2017
Roland Freisler
1893 – 1945
Rudolf Fleischmann
1903 – 2002
Saulius Sondeckis
1928 – 2016
Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet
1783 – 1847
Suliko Jgenti
1925 – 2000
Theodore Dwight Weld
1803 – 1895
Thomas Grainger Stewart
1837 – 1900
Vasili Blokhin
1895 – 1955
Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples
1937 – 2024
Wilbur Cortez Abbott
1869 – 1947
William David Coolidge
1873 – 1975
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
1893 – 1961
William Thomas McKinley
1938 – 2015
William Trail
1746 – 1831
Xiong Qinglai
1893 – 1969
Yusuf Ibrahim
1877 – 1953
Zurab Zhvania
1963 – 2005
Édouard Glissant
1928 – 2011
Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois
1731 – 1823
Abbas Zaryab
1919 – 1995
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
1976 – 2022
Adam Koc
1891 – 1969
Adolph John Paschang
1895 – 1968
Agi Jambor
1909 – 1997
Aino Malmberg
1865 – 1933
Albert Boutwell
1904 – 1978
Albin Rogelj
1929 – 2023
Alexander D. Goode
1911 – 1943
Alfonso de Castro
1494 – 1558
Alfred R. Page
1859 – 1931
Allaberdi Berdiýew
1904 – 1964
Allan Massie
1938 – 2026
Amalie Joachim
1839 – 1899
Andreas Makris
1930 – 2005
André Barsacq
1909 – 1973
Angela Restrepo Moreno
1931 – 2022
Anna May Wong
1905 – 1961
Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart
1847 – 1933
Antonio Samorè
1905 – 1983
Arnold Adolph Berthold
1803 – 1861
Arthur Churchman, 1st Baron Woodbridge
1867 – 1949
Arthur Johnson
1861 – 1946
Arthur W. Nienhuis
1941 – 2021
Audrey Meadows
1922 – 1996
Balram Jakhar
1923 – 2016
Bernard Botein
1900 – 1973
Bernard de Marigny
1785 – 1868
Bertram Heyn
1912 – 1998
Bohumil Hrabal
1914 – 1997
Branda da Castiglione
1350 – 1443
Bruce DeMars
1935 – 2024
Buddy Holly
1936 – 1959
Callistratus of Georgia
1866 – 1952
Carl Theodor Zahle
1866 – 1946
Chandramukhi Basu
1860 – 1944
Charles B. Sedgwick
1815 – 1883
Charles Fernley Fawcett
1915 – 2008
Charles Gibbons
1901 – 1968
Charles J. Stolbrand
1821 – 1894
Charles M. Floyd
1861 – 1923
Charles Phelps
1852 – 1940
Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier
1752 – 1826
Chuhdary Rahmat Ali
1897 – 1951
Clark V. Poling
1910 – 1943
Cuthbert Dukes
1890 – 1977
Cuthbert W. Pound
1864 – 1935
David Edward Byrd
1941 – 2025
David George Ritchie
1853 – 1903
David M. Key
1824 – 1900
David Muirhead
1918 – 1999
Deborah Batts
1947 – 2020
Detsl
1983 – 2019
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji
1895 – 1966
Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten
1923 – 2018
Dmitry Putyata
1855 – 1915
Dritëro Agolli
1931 – 2017
Duncan Rice
1942 – 2022
Edward C. T. Chao
1919 – 2008
Eugène Rouher
1814 – 1884
Filippo Andrea VI Doria Pamphili
1886 – 1958
Floyd K. Lindstrom
1912 – 1944
Francis Joseph Kernan
1859 – 1945
Francis Patrick Donovan
1922 – 2012
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Baron Conway
1679 – 1732
Frank Fasi
1920 – 2010
Frank Pietrzok
1964 – 2022
Fred H. Brown
1879 – 1955
Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough
1758 – 1844
Frederick Robie
1822 – 1912
Frederick Steiwer
1883 – 1939
Friedrich Ruttner
1914 – 1998
Fritz Helmut Ehmcke
1878 – 1965
Fukuzawa Yukichi
1835 – 1901
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard
1788 – 1899
Gene Reynolds
1923 – 2020
George L. Fox
1900 – 1943
George Washington Henderson
1850 – 1936
Georges Wilson
1921 – 2010
Georgy Kovenchuk
1933 – 2015
Georgy Shchedrovitsky
1929 – 1994
… and 1,981 more