June 3
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[edit] Events
[edit] Births
- 1917 - Leo Gorcey
- 1925 - Tony Curtis
[edit] Deaths
- 1411 - Leopold IV, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
- 1858 - Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
- 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
- 1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
- 1894 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
- 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
- 1924 - Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist (b. 1883)
- 1928 - Li Yüan-hung， Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
- 1963 - Nazim Hikmet (b. 1902)
- 1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
- 1970 - Hjalmar Schacht, minister of economics and president of the Reichsbank under Adolf Hitler (b. 1877)
- 1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
- 1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
- 1977 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director, father of Isabella Rossellini, husband of Ingrid Bergman (b. 1906)
- 1989 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite Islamic leader (b. 1900)
- 1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (b. October 22, 1949)
- 1991 - Katia and Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologists (b. 1942/1946)
- 1992 - Robert Morley, English actor (b. 1908)
- 2001 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
- 2003 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- 2004 - Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
- 2005 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer and lawyer, (b. 1945)
