On This Day — December 3
3804 noted people were born and 1889 died on December 3 in our archive, including Mikhail Fishman, Adolf Lieben and Bernard Henry Bourdillon.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 3
Mikhail Fishman
b. 1972
Adolf Lieben
1836 – 1914
Bernard Henry Bourdillon
1883 – 1948
Bogusław Sonik
b. 1953
Carlo Schmid
1896 – 1979
David Phillips
b. 1939
Denys Puech
1854 – 1942
Ellen Swallow Richards
1842 – 1911
Eric Barone
b. 1987
Franz Xavier Luschin
1781 – 1854
Hayato Ikeda
1899 – 1965
Haykanoush Danielyan
1893 – 1958
Ivan Achremčyk
1903 – 1971
Jacques Mézard
b. 1947
James Marshall Sprouse
1923 – 2004
Johannes Kert
1959 – 2021
John Backus
1924 – 2007
John E. Bercaw
b. 1944
John Salmond
1862 – 1924
Kai-Fu Lee
b. 1961
Kaljo Kiisk
1925 – 2007
Kimishige Ishizaka
1925 – 2018
Lena Kolarska-Bobińska
b. 1947
Manne Siegbahn
1886 – 1978
Maria Rita Saulle
1935 – 2011
Matt Haimovitz
b. 1970
Max Cahner
1936 – 2013
Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
1818 – 1901
Maxwell E. McCombs
1938 – 2024
Małgorzata Sadurska
b. 1975
Mercedes Cabrera
b. 1951
Michael Savageau
b. 1940
Muhammad Habibur Rahman
1930 – 2014
Paris Kanellakis
1953 – 1995
Patrick Cousot
b. 1948
Paul J. Crutzen
1933 – 2021
Rajendra Prasad
1884 – 1963
Richard Kuhn
1900 – 1967
Robert Döpel
1895 – 1982
Robert Graham
1786 – 1845
Salvador Moncada
b. 1944
Simone Peter
b. 1965
Sir Charles Murray Marling
1862 – 1933
Slobodan Jovanović
1869 – 1958
Steven Swanson
b. 1960
Theodore M. Porter
b. 1953
Viktor Gorbatko
1934 – 2017
Vladimir Chizhov
b. 1953
Abdul Haris Nasution
1918 – 2000
Abimael Guzmán
1934 – 2021
Adam Gruca
1893 – 1983
Agnes Chow
b. 1996
Akira Matsu
b. 1947
Alan Blow
b. 1949
Allen Wikgren
1906 – 1998
Andrea Romano
b. 1955
Andrew Stanton
b. 1965
Andrii Bohdan
b. 1976
André Marie
1897 – 1974
Anita Erskine
b. 1978
Anita Vandenbeld
b. 1971
Anna Freud
1895 – 1982
Ari Trausti Guðmundsson
b. 1948
Aylin Nazlıaka
b. 1968
Barbara Blida
1949 – 2007
Barbara Frączek
1941 – 2023
Bernd Althusmann
b. 1966
Bernhard Lichtenberg
1875 – 1943
Bolesław Szabelski
1896 – 1979
Boris A. Novak
b. 1953
Bozhidar Dimitrov
1945 – 2018
Brian Stacey
1946 – 1996
Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow
1744 – 1808
Bruno Campos
b. 1973
Carl R. de Boor
b. 1937
Carlos Juan Finlay
1833 – 1915
Carrie Bickmore
b. 1980
Christian Günther
1886 – 1966
Clemente Palma
1872 – 1946
Cleveland Abbe
1838 – 1916
Eamonn Holmes
b. 1959
Edmond Hervé
b. 1942
Eduard Bendemann
1811 – 1889
Eduardo Francisco Pironio
1920 – 1998
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
1939 – 2026
Emiland Gauthey
1732 – 1806
Ewa Kopacz
b. 1956
Ferenc Ladányi
1909 – 1965
Francis Condon
1884 – 1961
Francisca Tatchouop Belobe
b. 1972
Frank Packer
1906 – 1974
Frederic Leighton
1830 – 1896
Geoffrey Watson
1921 – 1998
George Burwell Utley
1876 – 1946
George Cabot
1752 – 1823
George Leake
1856 – 1902
George Noble Plunkett
1851 – 1948
George Wythe
1726 – 1806
Giovanni Battista Tolomei
1653 – 1726
Gonca Türkeli-Dehnert
b. 1975
Gonzalo Portocarrero
1949 – 2019
Greg Woolf
b. 1961
Gustav Schönleber
1851 – 1917
Hans Hækkerup
1945 – 2013
Hans Liebeschütz
1893 – 1978
Hellmut Flashar
1929 – 2022
Henry A. Schade
1900 – 1992
Henry Fillmore
1881 – 1956
Hisakatsu Yabe
1878 – 1969
Indrek Teder
b. 1957
Isaac HaLevy Herzog
1888 – 1959
J. Philippe Rushton
1943 – 2012
Jack J. McCauley
b. 1959
Jacques Auxiette
1940 – 2021
James C. Hogg
b. 1935
James Day Hodgson
1915 – 2012
James R. Rice
b. 1940
Jean-Luc Godard
1930 – 2022
Jemilah Mahmood
b. 1959
Johanna Stachel
b. 1954
John Bassett Moore
1860 – 1947
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
1820 – 1894
John Landquist
1881 – 1974
Joseph G. Galway
1922 – 1998
Joseph N. Dinand
1869 – 1943
Kafū Nagai
1879 – 1959
Kang Yong-suk
b. 1969
Keigo Hashimoto
b. 1988
Kim Bobo
b. 1954
Kishin Shinoyama
1940 – 2024
Klaus Johann Jacobs
1936 – 2008
Kōji Sekimizu
b. 1952
Larry Gottheim
b. 1936
Laura Friedman
b. 1966
Lee Ching-hua
b. 1948
Leung Che-cheung
b. 1957
Leyna Nguyen
b. 1969
Lothar Gall
1936 – 2024
Louis de Loménie
1815 – 1878
Lu Parker
b. 1970
Ludvig Holberg
1684 – 1754
Ludvig Puusepp
1875 – 1942
Mabel Shaw
1888 – 1973
Manfred Wekwerth
1929 – 2014
Manuela Ferreira Leite
b. 1940
Marianne Vind
b. 1970
Marie Drucker
b. 1974
Martin Lodge
1954 – 2024
Martin Wagenschein
1896 – 1988
Mary Alice
1941 – 2022
Mike Bantom
b. 1951
Naruhiko Higashikuni
1887 – 1990
Newton Diehl Baker Jr.
1871 – 1937
Nicolaus von Amsdorf
1483 – 1565
Nikolai Obruchev
1830 – 1904
Nina Doroshina
1934 – 2018
Oleh Liashko
b. 1972
Ossian Wuorenheimo
1845 – 1917
Pedro Oliveira
b. 1971
Peter Beuth
b. 1967
Peter Jacobs
b. 1939
Pier Ferdinando Casini
b. 1955
Ralph Hudson Johnson
1933 – 1993
Reginald Horace Blyth
1898 – 1964
Richard Butler
1850 – 1925
Richard Pankhurst
1927 – 2017
Robert Etheridge
1819 – 1903
Robert Sklar
1936 – 2011
Roberto Marinho
1904 – 2003
Ruben Hakhverdyan
b. 1950
Saburo Kawabuchi
b. 1936
Sally Shlaer
1938 – 1998
Santiago Fujimori
b. 1946
Sean Parker
b. 1979
Stan Cross
1888 – 1977
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
b. 1970
Trevor Bailey
1923 – 2011
Vicenç Mateu Zamora
b. 1961
Vijay Kumar Malhotra
1931 – 2025
Volker Mahnert
1943 – 2018
Wilhelm Sievers
1860 – 1921
William Emerson
1843 – 1924
A. Atwater Kent
1873 – 1949
Aaron Fuller
b. 1989
Aaron Ogden
1756 – 1839
Abdul Matin
1926 – 2014
Adam Małysz
b. 1977
Adam Skwarczyński
1886 – 1934
Adam Zertal
1936 – 2015
Ahmet Özal
b. 1955
Akiko Kurabayashi
b. 1960
Alex White
b. 1958
Alexander F. Gavrilov
b. 1970
Alfred Iverson Sr.
1798 – 1873
Alfred Uhry
b. 1936
Alice Huntington Bushee
1867 – 1956
Alice Schwarzer
b. 1942
Alicia Sacramone
b. 1987
Alireza Marandi
b. 1939
Amado Bagatsing
b. 1947
… and 3,604 more
Died on December 3
Shiing-Shen Chern
1911 – 2004
Antonio María Fabié
1832 – 1899
Brian Harold Mason
1917 – 2009
Edward Knollys
1895 – 1966
Elliott Waters Montroll
1916 – 1983
Erich Apel
1917 – 1965
Georges Duby
1919 – 1996
Gustavo Barroso
1888 – 1959
Hugh Edward Richardson
1905 – 2000
James Challis
1803 – 1882
Juho Vennola
1872 – 1938
Paul Baratte
1860 – 1928
Pavel Bazhov
1879 – 1950
Pavel Kutakhov
1914 – 1980
Prosper Poullet
1868 – 1937
Stefan Bryła
1886 – 1943
William de Wiveleslie Abney
1843 – 1920
Abdulkarim Alizadeh
1906 – 1979
Adam Stegerwald
1874 – 1945
Aleksandr Novikov
1900 – 1976
Alexander Farnese
1545 – 1592
Andrei Bitov
1937 – 2018
Archibald Campbell Tait
1811 – 1882
Attila József
1905 – 1937
Babrak Karmal
1929 – 1996
Bekal Utsahi
1924 – 2016
Brajendra Nath Seal
1864 – 1938
Carl Zeiss
1816 – 1888
Christian Ernst Stahl
1848 – 1919
Christian Sinding
1856 – 1941
Cola Debrot
1902 – 1981
Cora Sadosky
1940 – 2010
David Kinley
1861 – 1944
Enrique Soro Barriga
1884 – 1954
Felix Bernstein
1878 – 1956
Fernando Argenta
1945 – 2013
Francis Xavier
1506 – 1552
František Kriegel
1908 – 1979
Françoise Delord
1940 – 2021
George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford
1735 – 1800
Gerhart M. Riegner
1911 – 2001
Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
1944 – 2023
Gwendolyn Brooks
1917 – 2000
Harriet G. Eddy
1876 – 1966
Harvey Nathaniel Davis
1881 – 1952
Heinrich Hetsch
1873 – 1947
Hermann Köchly
1815 – 1876
Irina Zhdanovich
1906 – 1994
James Colgate Cleveland
1920 – 1995
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
1894 – 1948
Jan Kalivoda
1801 – 1866
Jim Kolbe
1942 – 2022
John B. Anderson
1922 – 2017
John Carroll
1735 – 1815
John S. Richards
1892 – 1979
John Templeton Bowen
1857 – 1940
Joseph Davies
1866 – 1954
Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher
1817 – 1860
Joseph Planta
1744 – 1827
Juan José Arreola
1918 – 2001
József Darvas
1912 – 1973
Jōtarō Kawakami
1889 – 1965
Lamine Diack
1933 – 2021
Lewis Thomas
1913 – 1993
Lord Henry Percy
1817 – 1877
Ludwig von Löfftz
1845 – 1910
Malin Falkenmark
1925 – 2023
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat
1912 – 1980
Mary Baker Eddy
1821 – 1910
Nikolai Kolli
1894 – 1966
Nureddin al-Atassi
1929 – 1992
Oliver Selfridge
1926 – 2008
Oreste Mattirolo
1856 – 1947
Oswald Mosley
1896 – 1980
Pavel Alexeyevich Belov
1897 – 1962
Rhoderick McGrigor
1893 – 1959
Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery
1600 – 1686
Robert Ferguson of Raith
1769 – 1840
Robert Rothschild
1911 – 1998
Rolf Sievert
1896 – 1966
Ronald S. Weinstein
1938 – 2021
Rudolf Slánský
1901 – 1952
Sam Loxton
1921 – 2011
Seiichiro Furuta
1897 – 1992
Sigurður Helgason
1927 – 2023
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat
1901 – 1988
Thomas Emerson Headlam
1813 – 1875
Thomas Henry Marlowe
1868 – 1935
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
1843 – 1919
Thorwald Bergquist
1899 – 1972
Virginia Lacy Jones
1912 – 1984
Vladimír Clementis
1902 – 1952
Werner Körte
1853 – 1937
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
1591 – 1668
Władysław Bukowiński
1904 – 1974
Zhou Ren
1892 – 1973
Édouard Jonas
1883 – 1961
Abdullah Al-Alayli
1914 – 1996
Albert Austin Harding
1880 – 1958
Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist
1809 – 1887
Alexander Obukhov
1918 – 1989
Alexander Turgenev
1784 – 1845
Alexandre Miniac
1885 – 1963
Alfred L. Buser
1888 – 1956
Alice Wedega
1905 – 1987
Arthur Berson
1859 – 1942
Augustin Hamon
1862 – 1945
Bea Miles
1902 – 1973
Benito Jacovitti
1923 – 1997
Benjamin B. Blackburn
1927 – 2024
Benson Dillon Billinghurst
1869 – 1935
Bill Bennett
1932 – 2015
Blanche Selva
1884 – 1942
Boris Stepanovich Lukoshkov
1922 – 1989
Brockway McMillan
1915 – 2016
Carl Hermann Busse
1872 – 1918
Cesário Alvim
1839 – 1903
Charles Edward Estabrook
1847 – 1918
Charles Goring
1743 – 1829
Charles Lyon
1878 – 1959
Charles P. Snyder
1879 – 1964
Charles Ulm
1898 – 1934
Charles Wiener
1851 – 1913
Charles-Napoléon Dorion
1887 – 1978
Charlotte Mailliard Shultz
1933 – 2021
Christopher Wandesford
1592 – 1640
Claude-Sylvestre Colaud
1754 – 1819
Clement J. Zablocki
1912 – 1983
Clifton Rodes Breckinridge
1846 – 1932
Daniel McGettigan
1815 – 1887
David Hollingsworth
1844 – 1929
David Röell
1894 – 1961
Dev Anand
1923 – 2011
Dmitri Petrovich Golitsyn
1860 – 1928
Don McKenzie
1947 – 2008
Donald Pack
1920 – 2016
Dronamraju Krishna Rao
1937 – 2020
Earl Johnson
1919 – 1994
Edward Hincks
1792 – 1866
Eliza Calvert Hall
1856 – 1935
Ellen Burrell
1850 – 1938
Elmar Faber
1934 – 2017
Ernst Gustaf Palmén
1849 – 1919
Ernst von Pfuel
1779 – 1866
Ethel Osborne
1882 – 1968
Eugen Zintgraff
1858 – 1897
Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton
1920 – 2021
Francis Buchanan White
1842 – 1894
Frank Gannett
1876 – 1957
Frank Roper
1914 – 2000
Franklin Matthias
1908 – 1993
Frederick Ashworth
1912 – 2005
Frederick Henry
1943 – 2024
Frederick Morgan Padelford
1875 – 1942
Frederick VI of Denmark
1768 – 1839
Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke
1835 – 1897
Friedrich Christiansen
1879 – 1972
Friedrich Wieseler
1811 – 1892
Félix Córdova Dávila
1878 – 1938
Geoff Murphy
1938 – 2018
Geoffrey Elton
1921 – 1994
Georg Ratzinger
1844 – 1899
George A. Taylor
1899 – 1969
George Grube
1899 – 1982
Georges Demetz
1865 – 1942
Georgy Ushakov
1901 – 1963
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster
1914 – 2004
Giuseppe Albani
1750 – 1834
Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne
1728 – 1792
Gonzalo II Fernández de Córdoba
1520 – 1578
Gustave Bloch
1848 – 1923
H. W. J. Thiersch
1817 – 1885
Harry Wismer
1913 – 1967
Hawley Olmstead
1793 – 1868
Henry Parayre
1879 – 1970
Henry Slesser
1883 – 1979
Herbert J. Ray
1893 – 1970
Herman Badillo
1929 – 2014
Isaac M. Jordan
1835 – 1890
Isaac Newton Evans
1827 – 1901
Ivan Shestakov
1820 – 1888
Jacob Morton
1761 – 1836
Jaime Fuster
1941 – 2007
James Meacham
1810 – 1856
James Teare
1872 – 1909
Janusz Radziwiłł
1579 – 1620
Jarl Wahlström
1918 – 1999
Jeroen Willems
1962 – 2012
Joel Rinne
1897 – 1981
Johann Micraelius
1597 – 1658
Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim
1777 – 1860
Johann Peter Eckermann
1792 – 1854
Johannes Maria Jozef van Leeuwen
1932 – 2024
John C. Karel
1873 – 1938
John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair
1819 – 1903
John Earl Henderson
1917 – 1994
John Forsdyke
1883 – 1979
John Fullerton, Lord Fullerton
1775 – 1853
John Noble Holcomb
1946 – 1968
John Percival
1834 – 1918
… and 1,689 more