On This Day — August 3
4031 noted people were born and 1871 died on August 3 in our archive, including Béla Bollobás, Alain Touraine and Aleksandr Shchipkov.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 3
Béla Bollobás
b. 1943
Alain Touraine
1925 – 2023
Aleksandr Shchipkov
b. 1957
Andrew Leigh
b. 1972
Cheng Kaijia
1918 – 2018
Daniel M. Fleetwood
b. 1958
Dmitry Savelyev
b. 1968
Elizabeth F. Churchill
b. 1962
Elizabeth Ofili
b. 1956
Ezio Vanoni
1903 – 1956
Feargal O'Rourke
b. 1964
Francesco D'Onofrio
b. 1939
Franz König
1905 – 2004
George FitzGerald
1851 – 1901
George Lincoln Goodale
1839 – 1923
George M. Whitesides
b. 1939
Grace Wahba
b. 1934
James A. Yorke
b. 1941
Jerzy Snopek
b. 1952
Josias Braun-Blanquet
1884 – 1980
Knut Getz Wold
1915 – 1987
Koichi Tanaka
b. 1959
Krzysztof Krajewski
b. 1963
Mark Kac
1914 – 1984
Mary E. Rice
1926 – 2021
Max van der Stoel
1924 – 2011
Mikhail Berulava
b. 1950
P. D. James
1920 – 2014
Paul Shorey
1857 – 1934
Pavel Kutakhov
1914 – 1980
Shun'ichi Iwasaki
1926 – 2025
Sidney Gottlieb
1918 – 1999
Terry Wogan
1938 – 2016
Thomas J.R. Hughes
b. 1943
Abhisit Vejjajiva
b. 1964
Aleksander Wolter
1905 – 1967
Aleksandr Alekseevič Vjazemskij
1727 – 1793
Alexander Nevzorov
b. 1958
Alfred Deakin
1856 – 1919
Anatolii Havrylov
1932 – 2021
Anatoly Aleksin
1924 – 2017
Andrey Kozenko
b. 1981
Anne McEwen
b. 1954
Antoine Picon
b. 1957
Antonello Bonci
b. 1966
Anu Aga
b. 1942
Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão
1914 – 1993
Aude Bono-Vandorme
b. 1962
Axel Poniatowski
b. 1951
Beatrice Weder di Mauro
b. 1965
Bernadette Meehan
b. 1975
Birgit Cullberg
1908 – 1999
Carin Jämtin
b. 1964
Carl Hansen Ostenfeld
1873 – 1931
Charles Edison
1890 – 1969
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
1791 – 1860
Charles Hall
1843 – 1900
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
1753 – 1816
Chi-Huey Wong
b. 1948
DJ Patil
b. 1974
Diane Wakoski
b. 1937
Domenico Alberto Azuni
1749 – 1827
Doris Bures
b. 1962
Duncan Lewis
b. 1953
Eberhard Zacharias Munck af Rosenschöld
1775 – 1840
Eduard Zuckmayer
1890 – 1972
Elina Haavio-Mannila
1933 – 2025
Ernesto Geisel
1907 – 1996
Eugeniy Andreevich Iskritskiy
1874 – 1949
Evgeny Abramyan
1930 – 2014
Evika Siliņa
b. 1975
Fahri Korutürk
1903 – 1987
Felix Novikov
1927 – 2022
Frank Arthur Calder
1915 – 2006
Fritz Hellwig
1912 – 2017
Gabe Vasquez
b. 1984
George R. Rossman
1944 – 2026
George Waller
1911 – 1999
Gonzalo Tancredi
b. 1963
H. Patrick Glenn
1940 – 2014
Haakon VII of Norway
1872 – 1957
Habib Bourguiba
1903 – 2000
Hage Geingob
1941 – 2024
Hamilton Fish
1808 – 1893
Hans Schlegel
b. 1951
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford
1825 – 1914
Hippolyte Langlois
1839 – 1912
Hung Cao
b. 1971
Hwang Woo-yea
b. 1947
Iancu Flondor
1865 – 1924
Ihor Vozniak
b. 1952
Ildebrando Antoniutti
1898 – 1974
Ivan Vyrypaev
b. 1974
Jan des Bouvrie
1942 – 2020
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
b. 1948
Joan Child
1921 – 2013
Joan Higginbotham
b. 1964
Johan Georg Lillienberg
1713 – 1798
John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey
1840 – 1929
John Gillingham
b. 1940
John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
1847 – 1934
John M. Murphy
1926 – 2015
John Manchester Allen
1901 – 1941
John Ordronaux
1830 – 1908
John S. Service
1909 – 1999
John W. Carlin
b. 1940
Joseph Jules Dejerine
1849 – 1917
José María de Areilza, Count of Motrico
1909 – 1998
José Pedro Braga
1871 – 1944
Judith Troeth
b. 1940
Kishi Seiichi
1867 – 1933
Lau Siu-lai
b. 1976
Laureen Nussbaum
b. 1927
M. S. Sanjeevi Rao
1929 – 2014
Maithili Sharan Gupt
1886 – 1964
Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
1844 – 1920
Maria Aurèlia Capmany
1918 – 1991
Maria Bieșu
1935 – 2012
Marie Barsacq
b. 1973
Martha Stewart
b. 1941
Mary Ann Scherr
1921 – 2016
Masato Sagawa
b. 1943
Milan Mojsilović
b. 1967
Millie Peacock
1870 – 1948
Mirab Kishmaria
b. 1961
Mohamed Laqhila
b. 1959
Nathan Myhrvold
b. 1959
Neal E. Miller
1909 – 2002
Nick Harvey
b. 1961
Nikolai Burlyayev
b. 1946
Nikolay Ivanov
1851 – 1919
Nobutsune Oda
1889 – 1967
Oswald Külpe
1862 – 1915
Pascal Le Boeuf
b. 1986
Paul Sabatier
1858 – 1928
Pekka Paavola
1933 – 2023
Peter Atke Castberg
1779 – 1823
Peter Strickland
1869 – 1951
Pilar Llop
b. 1973
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
1923 – 2012
Prince Kan'in Haruhito
1902 – 1988
Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
b. 1969
Ralf Fücks
b. 1951
Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby
1832 – 1915
Remo Bodei
1938 – 2019
Renate Weber
b. 1955
René Dosière
b. 1941
Richard Williams
1890 – 1980
Robert Thurman
1941 – 2026
Roger G. Kennedy
1926 – 2011
Roger Gifford
1955 – 2021
Roland Burris
b. 1937
Rudolf Stämpfli
b. 1955
Sazhi Umalatova
b. 1953
Shahan Shahnour
1903 – 1974
Shlomo Breznitz
1936 – 2026
Siegfried Selberherr
b. 1955
Sijbren Otto
b. 1971
Skin
b. 1967
Sloane Crosley
b. 1978
Sri Prakasa
1890 – 1971
Stanley Baldwin
1867 – 1947
Steven Fish
b. 1962
Sumalee Montano
b. 1972
Takeo Hiranuma
b. 1939
Thangam Debbonaire
b. 1966
Valeriu Saharneanu
b. 1952
Valery Ganichev
1933 – 2018
Valery Saykin
1937 – 2024
Vernon Louis Parrington
1871 – 1929
Victor Basargin
b. 1957
Vladimir Beklemishev
1861 – 1919
Vladimir Kiselev
b. 1958
Vladimir Yevlanov
b. 1948
Vladimír Pikora
b. 1977
Walter Wriston
1919 – 2005
William J. Breed
1928 – 2013
Yasuo Yamashita
b. 1942
Yonah Sztencl
1904 – 1969
Yu Jae-hung
1921 – 2011
Željko Rohatinski
1951 – 2019
A. K. Balan
b. 1948
Abdul Mannan Syed
1943 – 2010
Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars
1793 – 1864
Abhishek Jain
b. 1986
Adolph Wilhelm Otto
1786 – 1845
Adrian Moss
b. 1988
Alejandro García Padilla
b. 1971
Aleksey Brusilov
1853 – 1926
Alexandre Trauner
1906 – 1993
Alfrēds Čepānis
1943 – 2024
Ali-Asghar Badiezadegan
1940 – 1972
Aljon Mariano
b. 1992
Amin Kamil
1924 – 2014
Andrea Ronchi
b. 1955
Andrew H. Cozzens
b. 1968
Angela Beesley Starling
b. 1977
Angelo Ramazzotti
1800 – 1861
Anna Łukaszewska-Trzeciakowska
b. 1974
Annick Girardin
b. 1964
… and 3,831 more
Died on August 3
Alfred Saupe
1925 – 2008
Alfredo Ottaviani
1890 – 1979
August Böckh
1785 – 1867
Bertil Ohlin
1899 – 1979
Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
1910 – 1987
Charles Joseph Mathieu Lambrechts
1753 – 1825
Esteban Gil Borges
1879 – 1942
Farman Fatehpuri
1926 – 2013
Georgy Babakin
1914 – 1971
Isadore Perlman
1915 – 1991
Iván Szelényi
1938 – 2026
Joshua Barnes
1654 – 1712
Karel Bossart
1904 – 1975
Karl Knies
1821 – 1898
Konstantin Konik
1873 – 1936
Lydia Yu-Jose
1944 – 2014
Nikolai Kardashev
1932 – 2019
Otmar Emminger
1911 – 1986
Paul McCracken
1915 – 2012
Reinhart Langer
1921 – 2018
Richard Willstätter
1872 – 1942
Stella Rimington
1935 – 2025
Volodymyr Zabolotnyi
1898 – 1962
Agenor Romuald Gołuchowski
1812 – 1875
Alan Walsh
1916 – 1998
Alfred Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin
1843 – 1936
Alfred Schnittke
1934 – 1998
Alwyn Howard Gentry
1945 – 1993
Anatoly Yakobson
1906 – 1984
Anthony Kenny
1931 – 2026
Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh
1936 – 2008
Bonaventura Duda
1924 – 2017
Bram Moolenaar
1961 – 2023
Carl D. Perkins
1912 – 1984
Charles Garnier
1825 – 1898
Cho-yun Hsu
1930 – 2025
Colette
1873 – 1954
Cynthia Macdonald
1928 – 2015
Dionýz Ilkovič
1907 – 1980
Eberhard von Koerber
1938 – 2017
Edward B. Titchener
1867 – 1927
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1915 – 2006
Emile Berliner
1851 – 1929
Ethel Robertson Macia
1881 – 1964
Eugène Sue
1804 – 1857
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
1849 – 1917
Francis Wogan Festing
1902 – 1976
Francisco Gómez-Jordana Sousa
1876 – 1944
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
1905 – 2001
Fredrik Riben
1868 – 1950
Friedrich Staub
1826 – 1896
Geoffrey Page
1920 – 2000
Gordon Churchill
1898 – 1985
Guglielmo Ferrero
1871 – 1942
Hans Mayr
1921 – 2009
Ida Lupino
1918 – 1995
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
1925 – 1994
Isaac Raphael
1914 – 1999
Ivan Mykolaichuk
1941 – 1987
Jaan Kiivit
1906 – 1971
Jacob Abraham de Mist
1749 – 1823
James Brady
1940 – 2014
Jang Do-young
1923 – 2012
Jean Jacques Rambonnet
1864 – 1943
Joghem van Loghem
1914 – 2005
Johann Daniel Overbeck
1715 – 1802
Johann Matthias Gesner
1691 – 1761
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
1723 – 1793
John Hume
1937 – 2020
John Palmer
1935 – 2013
Ken'ichi Yoshida
1912 – 1977
Konstantin Rokossovsky
1889 – 1968
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
1888 – 1969
Louis Couturat
1868 – 1914
Ludwig Barth zu Barthenau
1839 – 1890
Makarios III
1913 – 1977
Mathias Lerch
1860 – 1922
Nicanor Costa Méndez
1922 – 1992
Nicola Canali
1874 – 1961
Otto Stapf
1857 – 1933
Paul Abadie
1812 – 1884
Piotr Szulkin
1950 – 2018
Raphael de Mercatellis
1463 – 1508
Raymond Vahan Damadian
1936 – 2022
Reinhold Begas
1831 – 1911
Richard Stokes
1897 – 1957
Robert Conquest
1917 – 2015
Roger Casement
1864 – 1916
Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet
1822 – 1906
Stoyan Mihaylovski
1856 – 1927
Talgat Musabayev
1951 – 2025
Thorstein Veblen
1857 – 1929
Will Rogers
1898 – 1983
William Butler Ogden
1805 – 1877
William Douw Lighthall
1857 – 1954
William Lyne
1844 – 1913
Yehoshua Arieli
1916 – 2002
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
1880 – 1940
Zinovy Vysokovsky
1932 – 2009
Żanna Kormanowa
1900 – 1988
Achille Libéral Treilhard
1785 – 1855
Adam Szelągowski
1873 – 1961
Adela Žgur
1909 – 1992
Aggelos Terzakis
1907 – 1979
Albert Pollard
1869 – 1948
Aleksandr Naumov
1868 – 1950
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918 – 2008
Alexander Mair
1889 – 1969
Alexey Vassilievich Tyranov
1808 – 1859
Alf Schwarz
1935 – 2015
Alfred Bessell-Browne
1877 – 1947
Alfred Lunt
1892 – 1977
Ali Sabri
1920 – 1991
Andreas von Barby
1508 – 1559
Antonia Brico
1902 – 1989
Antonio Barberini
1607 – 1671
Antonio Pennacchi
1950 – 2021
Antônio Meneses
1957 – 2024
Arthur Lee
1945 – 2006
August Nauck
1822 – 1892
Augustin Kažotić
1260 – 1323
Bob Mollohan
1909 – 1999
Bokken Lasson
1871 – 1970
Brian Lochore
1940 – 2019
Carl Davis
1936 – 2023
Carmine Benincasa
1947 – 2020
Caroline Ganley
1879 – 1966
Charles C. McCracken
1882 – 1957
Charles D. Rosa
1870 – 1959
Charles E. Townsend
1856 – 1924
Charles Heaphy
1820 – 1881
Charles Laberge
1827 – 1874
Charles S. Hartman
1861 – 1929
Chris Amon
1943 – 2016
Christian Frémont
1942 – 2014
Christopher Anstey
1724 – 1805
Dana T. Merrill
1876 – 1957
Daniel Joseph Curley
1869 – 1932
Dankwart Rustow
1924 – 1996
David Percy Jones
1860 – 1927
Dickie Hemric
1933 – 2017
Dimitrie Brândză
1846 – 1895
Eddie Riska
1919 – 1992
Eduardo Cote Lamus
1928 – 1964
Edward Alexander Partridge
1861 – 1931
Edward Baines
1774 – 1848
Edward Murphy Jr.
1836 – 1911
Elchin Afandiyev
1943 – 2025
Elizabeth Colson
1917 – 2016
Emily Newell Blair
1877 – 1951
Endre Gyulay
1930 – 2024
Ernst Jedliczka
1855 – 1904
Fedot Sychkov
1870 – 1958
Flannery O'Connor
1925 – 1964
Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland
1825 – 1891
Francisco Fabián y Fuero
1719 – 1801
Frank Trimble O'Hair
1870 – 1932
François de Bourbon
1558 – 1614
Françoise d'Eaubonne
1920 – 2005
Frederic C. Howe
1867 – 1940
Frederick Williams-Taylor
1863 – 1945
Frumka Płotnicka
1914 – 1943
Fulgence Bienvenüe
1852 – 1936
Georg Høeberg
1872 – 1950
George Rainsford Fairbanks
1820 – 1906
George V. Underwood, Jr.
1913 – 1984
George, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
1796 – 1853
Geremia Bonomelli
1831 – 1914
Gholam Hosein Shiri Aliabad
1961 – 2021
Gilles Perrault
1931 – 2023
Giovanni Ottavio Bufalini
1709 – 1782
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
1862 – 1932
Guillaume-François Rouelle
1703 – 1770
Géza Daruváry
1866 – 1934
Harry Craft
1915 – 1995
Harry Phillips
1909 – 1985
Heinz London
1907 – 1970
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 – 2004
Henry Wyndham
1790 – 1860
Herbert Foxwell
1849 – 1936
Hiroyuki Agawa
1920 – 2015
Hugo II Logothetti
1852 – 1918
Ignotus
1869 – 1949
Iida Vemmelpuu
1868 – 1924
Ilias Venezis
1904 – 1973
Ilo Mosashvili
1896 – 1957
Ilya Tsipursky
1934 – 2022
Irina Miroshnichenko
1942 – 2023
Iryna Zhylenko
1941 – 2013
Jack English Hightower
1926 – 2013
Jack Lawson
1881 – 1965
Jack Molinas
1931 – 1975
Jackie Walorski
1963 – 2022
Jacques Daoust
1948 – 2017
Jakob Nielsen
1890 – 1959
James Clifton Wilson
1874 – 1951
James David Zellerbach
1892 – 1963
James E. Cannon
1873 – 1942
James II of Scotland
1430 – 1460
Javier Mariátegui
1928 – 2008
… and 1,671 more