January 3

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2006 Calendar

January 3 is the third day of the year in the current calendar system we use. When there is not a leap year, there are 362 days after January 3. When there is a leap year, there are 363 days after January 3.

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1322 - King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, first European to visit California (b. 1499)
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. ca. 1619)
1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor and encyclopedist (b. 1817)
1881 - Anna McNeill Whistler, Whistler's mother (b. 1804)
1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
1946 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
1967 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist and author (b. 1910)
1981 - Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Albany, the last grandchild of Queen Victoria (b. 1883)
1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
2001 - José Greco, flamenco dancer (b. 1918)
2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch CEO of the beer brewery (b. 1923)
2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
2004 - Leon Wagner, MLB All-Star (b. 1934)
2005:
- JN Dixit, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary (b. 1936)
- Will Eisner, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist (b. 1917)
- Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator with the PRC (b. 1917)