On This Day — March 3
4700 noted people were born and 2157 died on March 3 in our archive, including Alexander Graham Bell, Adelino da Palma Carlos and Aleksei Pogorelov.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 3
Alexander Graham Bell
1847 – 1922
Adelino da Palma Carlos
1905 – 1992
Aleksei Pogorelov
1919 – 2002
Alexander Balankin
b. 1958
Ali Gomaa
b. 1952
Alyona Arshinova
b. 1985
Antonio J. Benítez
1903 – 1992
Artem Oganov
b. 1975
Auguste Houzeau
1829 – 1911
Boris Delaunay
1890 – 1980
Brian Cox
b. 1968
Chase G. Woodhouse
1890 – 1984
Dmitry Shirkov
1928 – 2016
Eleni Kounalakis
b. 1966
Elmer McCollum
1879 – 1967
Emil Artin
1898 – 1962
George T. Whitesides
b. 1974
Heizō Takenaka
b. 1951
Jacek Kuroń
1934 – 2004
Johan Ihre
1707 – 1780
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
1924 – 1966
Kamanio Chattopadhyay
b. 1950
Karol Nawrocki
b. 1983
Kazimierz Bartel
1882 – 1941
Mikhail Mishustin
b. 1966
Nicolas Bratza
b. 1945
Paul Cook
b. 1943
Ragnar Frisch
1895 – 1973
Ralph Murray
1908 – 1983
Roger Caillois
1913 – 1978
Tadahiko Mibuchi
1880 – 1950
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
b. 1965
Thierry de Montbrial
b. 1943
Thomas Poulter
1897 – 1978
Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead
b. 1951
Zdenko Hans Skraup
1850 – 1910
Alex Sceberras Trigona
b. 1950
Alexander Georg Supan
1847 – 1920
Alexander Hormuzaki
1869 – 1946
Alexander Voloshin
b. 1956
Alfred Gruenther
1899 – 1983
Angelo Rocca
1545 – 1620
Anine Kierulf
b. 1974
Aoki Shūzō
1844 – 1914
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou
1891 – 1949
Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire
1753 – 1801
Arthur Kornberg
1918 – 2007
Bernice Sandler
1928 – 2019
Bohdan Dobrzański
1909 – 1987
Bonnie J. Dunbar
b. 1949
Bryan Steil
b. 1981
Carmen García Muñoz
1929 – 1998
Chantal Bourragué
b. 1946
Charles H. Papas
1918 – 2007
Charles Henry de Soysa
1836 – 1890
Christen Friis Rottbøll
1727 – 1797
Christian Menn
1927 – 2018
Cyril Burt
1883 – 1971
Cyryl Ratajski
1875 – 1942
Dagmar Freitag
b. 1953
Dalia Dorner
b. 1934
David Fairbairn
1917 – 1994
Domènec Ruiz Devesa
b. 1978
Donald V. DeRosa
1941 – 2026
Edmund Waller
1606 – 1687
Ejup Ganić
b. 1946
Elijah Harper
1949 – 2013
Elizabeth Karlin
1944 – 1998
Elizabeth Welsh
1843 – 1921
Elwin Palmer
1852 – 1906
Eric O'Neill
b. 1973
Ernest Cassel
1852 – 1921
Ernesto de la Cárcova
1866 – 1927
Erosi Manjgaladze
1925 – 1982
Federico Moreno Torroba
1891 – 1982
France Križanič
1928 – 2002
Francis William Billado
1907 – 1966
František Langer
1888 – 1965
Frederick Charles of Schönborn
1674 – 1746
Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert
1833 – 1912
Gabriel Arias-Salgado
1904 – 1962
Gennadi Gerasimov
1930 – 2010
George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
1720 – 1795
George Miller
b. 1945
Georges Guillain
1876 – 1961
Georges Hilaire Bousquet
1846 – 1937
Georgios Remoundos
1878 – 1928
Georgios Zoitakis
1910 – 1996
Giovanni Spano
1803 – 1878
Gisbertus Voetius
1589 – 1676
Graham Bell
b. 1949
Gregory P. Baxter
1876 – 1953
Guillaume de Jerphanion
1877 – 1948
Gunter Pauli
b. 1956
Gustavo Pérez Firmat
b. 1949
Guy Marrian
1904 – 1981
Günter Ollenschläger
b. 1951
Heiner Geißler
1930 – 2017
Heinrich Dernburg
1829 – 1907
Heinrich Georg Bronn
1800 – 1862
Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn
1783 – 1851
Henry Wood
1869 – 1944
Herbert Holdsworth Ross
1908 – 1978
Herschel Walker
b. 1962
Howard J. McMurray
1901 – 1961
Howard Russell Butler
1856 – 1934
Håkan Samuelsson
b. 1951
Ihor Sorkin
b. 1967
Ion Iliescu
1930 – 2025
Irina Prokhorova
b. 1956
Ivo Vajgl
b. 1943
J. D. Morgan
1919 – 1980
Jack Gibson
1908 – 1994
Jacob Heinrich von Flemming
1667 – 1728
James C. Adamson
b. 1946
James Doohan
1920 – 2005
James Merrill
1926 – 1995
James S. Voss
b. 1949
Jason Smogorzewski
1715 – 1788
Javid Husain
b. 1944
Jean-Christophe Attias
b. 1958
Jean-Paul Proust
1940 – 2010
Jenni L. Evans
1962 – 2025
Jerome Sattler
1931 – 2024
Johannes Leimena
1905 – 1977
John Bunting
1918 – 1995
John Maclean
1800 – 1886
John Perowne
1823 – 1904
Jonas Furrer
1805 – 1861
Jüri Allik
b. 1949
Kai Sauer
b. 1967
Kazuki Ōmori
1952 – 2022
Kelly Reichardt
b. 1964
Kim Un-yong
1931 – 2017
Lucie Castets
b. 1987
Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein
1855 – 1936
Maine Mendoza
b. 1995
Marvin L. Cohen
b. 1935
Matthew Ridgway
1895 – 1993
Meghrajji III of Dhrangadhra
1923 – 2010
Michael Walzer
b. 1935
Mike Gallagher
b. 1984
Musdah Mulia
b. 1958
Nicolae Filip
1926 – 2009
Nobuo Tanaka
b. 1950
Nur Misuari
b. 1939
Paul Halmos
1916 – 2006
Pauls Kalniņš
1872 – 1945
Pedro Costa
b. 1959
Peter Stearns
b. 1936
Pierre Aubert
1927 – 2016
Ralph Heskett
b. 1953
Richard DeVos
1926 – 2018
Robert G. Shulman
1924 – 2026
Roman Nasirov
b. 1979
Ronald Mallett
b. 1945
Ruth Hubbard
1924 – 2016
San Yu
1918 – 1996
Sanzō Wada
1883 – 1967
Shi Jinbo
b. 1940
Shinji Miyadai
b. 1959
Sigurd Agersnap
b. 1993
Stephanie Al-Qaq
b. 1976
Susan Dougan
b. 1955
Susan Zirinsky
b. 1952
Susanto Tirtoprodjo
1900 – 1969
Tatiana Okunevskaya
1914 – 2002
Tomiichi Murayama
1924 – 2025
Viktor Zhdanov
b. 1965
Vilhelms Purvītis
1872 – 1945
Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
b. 1960
Vladimir Kovalyonok
b. 1942
Waldemar Tomaszewski
b. 1965
Wilfrid Esteve
b. 1968
William Green
1870 – 1952
Wolfgang Kubicki
b. 1952
Xavier Bettel
b. 1973
Yaser Abu-Mostafa
b. 1957
Zhelyu Zhelev
1935 – 2015
Édgar Peña Parra
b. 1960
Ümit Özdağ
b. 1961
Abbas Khider
b. 1973
Abdulla Xolmuhamedov
b. 1954
Ada Colau
b. 1974
Adrian
1903 – 1959
Aidan Higgins
1927 – 2015
Akira Uchiyama
b. 1954
Alain
1868 – 1951
Albert Chan
b. 1955
Albert Kahn
1860 – 1940
Alexander Baerwald
1877 – 1930
Alexander Gustav Winkler
1865 – 1935
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
1803 – 1860
Alfred Bruneau
1857 – 1934
Alireza Zakani
b. 1966
Aliu Mahama
1946 – 2012
Ana Peleteiro
b. 1995
Anatoliy Pushnyakov
1954 – 2021
Anders Gustaf Dahlbom
1806 – 1859
Anders Leonard Bygdén
1844 – 1929
… and 4,500 more
Died on March 3
Albert B. Sabin
1906 – 1993
Robert Hooke
1635 – 1703
Carl Jacob Burckhardt
1891 – 1974
Danny Kaye
1913 – 1987
Dore Gold
1953 – 2025
Dorothy Hansine Andersen
1901 – 1963
Edmund Beecher Wilson
1856 – 1939
Filaret Kolessa
1871 – 1947
Gerhard Herzberg
1904 – 1999
Hergé
1907 – 1983
Hlieb Hliebaŭ
1899 – 1967
Malcolm McKenna
1930 – 2008
Martin Gutzwiller
1925 – 2014
Meyer Schapiro
1904 – 1996
Rebecca Lancefield
1895 – 1981
Roger Bannister
1929 – 2018
Sewall Wright
1889 – 1988
Thanat Khoman
1914 – 2016
Vincas Vitkauskas
1890 – 1965
Walter Grotrian
1890 – 1954
William Kingdon Clifford
1845 – 1879
William Penney, Baron Penney
1909 – 1991
Yves Guéna
1922 – 2016
Adolf Törngren
1824 – 1895
Agostino Lanzillo
1886 – 1952
Alberto Tognoli
1937 – 2008
Aleksander Oinas
1887 – 1942
Alfonso Castaldo
1890 – 1966
Alfred J. Marrow
1905 – 1978
Alfredo Bengzon
1935 – 2026
Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
1852 – 1930
Amjad Parvez
1945 – 2024
Anastasie Fătu
1816 – 1886
Angelo Tasca
1892 – 1960
Antal Hekler
1882 – 1940
Arnold Veimer
1903 – 1977
Astley Cooper Key
1821 – 1888
Auguste Mercier
1833 – 1921
Benjamin Moore
1867 – 1922
Cairine Wilson
1885 – 1962
Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland
1815 – 1888
Charlotte Moore Sitterly
1898 – 1990
Claudio Tognolli
1963 – 2024
Dmitri Protopopov
1897 – 1986
Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester
1568 – 1628
Edward Wittig
1879 – 1941
Ephraim Emerton
1851 – 1935
Ernest Howard Griffiths
1851 – 1932
František Ladislav Rieger
1818 – 1903
Franz Heinrich Reusch
1823 – 1900
François Delmas
1913 – 2002
Fred W. Friendly
1915 – 1998
Freimut Duve
1936 – 2020
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Rümker
1832 – 1900
Georg Morgenstierne
1892 – 1978
George Adam Smith
1856 – 1942
George Washington Kirchwey
1855 – 1942
Godwin Obasi
1933 – 2007
Grigory Grumm-Grzhimaylo
1860 – 1936
Gustav Radde
1831 – 1903
Hendrik Menso
1791 – 1872
Henri Troyat
1911 – 2007
Iosif Shklovsky
1916 – 1985
Ivan Grigorovich
1853 – 1930
Ivan Krasko
1876 – 1958
James Withycombe
1854 – 1919
Jan Fryling
1891 – 1977
Jean-François Jacqueminot
1787 – 1865
Jerzy Limon
1950 – 2021
Johan Ludwig Lund
1777 – 1867
Johannes Sturm
1507 – 1589
John Adams
1920 – 1984
John Alexander Low Waddell
1854 – 1938
John Ashworth
1938 – 2025
John Edward Williams
1922 – 1994
John Kerr Tiffany
1842 – 1897
John Krol
1910 – 1996
John Stevens
1749 – 1838
Jorge Wagensberg Lubinski
1948 – 2018
José Martínez Ruiz
1873 – 1967
Józef Pieter
1904 – 1989
Karl Fedorovich Kessler
1815 – 1881
Kenneth John Conant
1894 – 1984
Kenzaburō Ōe
1935 – 2023
Kerry Marshall
1940 – 2020
Lars Widding
1924 – 1994
Lincoln Díaz-Balart
1954 – 2025
Lorenz Lindelöf
1827 – 1908
Luigi Chiarini
1789 – 1832
Maija Isola
1927 – 2001
Malcolm Kilduff
1927 – 2003
Marguerite Duras
1914 – 1996
Medea Abrahamyan
1932 – 2021
Michael A. Padlipsky
1939 – 2011
Michael Foot
1913 – 2010
Mohinder Singh Randhawa
1909 – 1986
Momo Kapor
1937 – 2010
Monica Felton
1906 – 1970
Niels Keiding
1944 – 2022
Paul-Émile Janson
1872 – 1944
Philémon Cousineau
1874 – 1959
Pierre Cuypers
1827 – 1921
René Préval
1943 – 2017
Robert Adam
1728 – 1792
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
1919 – 1994
Rudolf Brestel
1816 – 1881
Sarah Gibson Blanding
1898 – 1985
Sherwin B. Nuland
1930 – 2014
Sidney Lee
1859 – 1926
Stanislav Shatalin
1934 – 1997
Stanisław Kania
1927 – 2020
Sukumar Sen
1900 – 1992
T. H. Parry-Williams
1887 – 1975
Thomas B. Hayward
1924 – 2022
Vasily Yefanov
1900 – 1978
Victor Leemans
1901 – 1971
Volodymyr Karavayev
1811 – 1892
Willem Hendrik Keesom
1876 – 1956
William James Wanless
1865 – 1933
William John Burchell
1781 – 1863
William R. Pogue
1930 – 2014
Xu Chongde
1929 – 2014
Xu Guangping
1898 – 1968
Yuri Stepanov
1967 – 2010
Adalbert von Bredow
1814 – 1890
Adam Kisiel
1600 – 1653
Adolf Gottstein
1857 – 1941
Agustín de Iturbide y Green
1863 – 1925
Alfons Siffer
1850 – 1941
Alfred Cooper
1838 – 1908
Alfred M. Wilson
1948 – 1969
Alice Crocker Lloyd
1893 – 1950
Alice Pearce
1917 – 1966
Alvin Greene
1977 – 2026
Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach
1792 – 1862
Andrew Oliver
1706 – 1774
Andrew Watson
1961 – 2026
Anna Zádor
1904 – 1995
Annemarie Renger
1919 – 2008
Antony Bek
1245 – 1311
António de Serpa Pimentel
1825 – 1900
Arkady Nebolsin
1865 – 1917
Arthur Montagu Brookfield
1853 – 1940
Arthur Peppercorn
1889 – 1951
Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle
1461 – 1542
Bart Quinn
1917 – 2013
Benjamin S. Kelsey
1906 – 1981
Bill Mathews
1919 – 2003
Bob Harrison
1927 – 2024
Bobbi Fiedler
1937 – 2019
Bohdan Pociej
1933 – 2011
Bruno Astorre
1963 – 2023
Bruno Saul
1932 – 2022
Charles A. Halleck
1900 – 1986
Charles H. MacDonald
1914 – 2002
Charles J. Berry
1923 – 1945
Charles Lester Marlatt
1863 – 1954
Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington
1780 – 1851
Charles Usher
1865 – 1942
Chris Mortensen
1951 – 2024
Clement VIII
1536 – 1605
Clotilde Dent Bowen
1923 – 2011
David Ogden Stiers
1942 – 2018
Dimitrie Gerota
1867 – 1939
Dmitri Osten-Sacken
1793 – 1881
Donald Macmaster
1846 – 1922
Donald S. Lopez, Sr.
1923 – 2008
Edward Douglas Brown
1861 – 1940
Edward FitzRoy
1869 – 1943
Elizabeth Laird
1874 – 1969
Emilio Bello Codesido
1868 – 1963
Erasmo Escala
1826 – 1884
Ernest Braun
1925 – 2015
Es Downey
1923 – 2011
Eugen d'Albert
1864 – 1932
Eugene Sledge
1923 – 2001
Eveleen Mary Weldon Severn
1882 – 1942
Everhardus Jacobus Ariëns
1918 – 2002
Ezra Stone
1917 – 1994
Fedor Solntsev
1801 – 1892
Ferdinand Brucker
1858 – 1904
Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer
1881 – 1948
Firaq Gorakhpuri
1896 – 1982
Forrest C. Donnell
1884 – 1980
Fran McKee
1926 – 2002
Francesca Gargallo
1956 – 2022
Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell
1865 – 1931
Frans Goedhart
1904 – 1990
Franz Pacher
1919 – 2018
François Duhourcau
1883 – 1951
François VI de Beauharnais
1756 – 1846
Fred Alexander
1880 – 1969
G. M. C. Balayogi
1951 – 2002
Gabriel Lisette
1919 – 2001
Geoffrey Hornby
1825 – 1895
George Henry Chamberlain
1862 – 1943
George Lynch-Staunton
1858 – 1940
George W. Mundy
1905 – 2000
Georges Perec
1936 – 1982
Georgy Bazilevich
1889 – 1939
… and 1,957 more