December 3
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[edit] Births
- 1928 - Andy Williams, singer
- 1948 - Ozzy Osbourne, singer
[edit] Deaths
- 1048 - Al-Biruni, Iranian mathematician
- 1154 - Pope Anastasius IV
- 1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist
- 1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)
- 1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
- 1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)
- 1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
- 1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)
- 1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
- 1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
- 1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
- 1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer (b. 1850)
- 1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)
- 1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
- 1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)
- 1941 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)
- 1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)
- 1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)
- 1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
- 1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1905)
- 1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
- 1981 - Walter Knott, farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889)
- 1996 - Georges Duby, French historian specializing in the Middle Ages (b. 1919)
- 1999 - Jarl Wahlström, the 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
- 1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress and comedian (b. 1942)
- 1999 - Scatman John, American singer (lung cancer) (b. 1942)
- 2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
- 2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
- 2003 - David Hemmings, British actor (b. 1941)
- 2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
