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August 3
(Redirected from 3 August)
August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining.
Events
1400-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
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2000 - George W. Bush accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
Births
1500-1899
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1509 - Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (d. 1546)
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1645 - August Kuhnel , composer
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1692 - John Henley, clergyman (d. 1759)
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1748 - Carl Ludwig Junker , composer
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1753 - Charles Stanhope , inventor of the calculator
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1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia (d. 1840)
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1801 - Joseph Paxton, landscape gardener (d. 1865)
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1808 - Hamilton Fish, politician (d. 1893)
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1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
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1817 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general
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1823 - Thomas F. Meagher , Irish rebel, convict and escapee in Australia, US Union general
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1833 - Auguste Schmidt , feminist and teacher (d. 1902)
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1856 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919)
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1860 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
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1867 - Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister (d. 1947)
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1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
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1887 - Rupert Brooke, poet (d. 1915)
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1894 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
1900-1999
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1900 - Ernie Pyle, war correspondent (d. 1945)
- 1900 - John T. Scopes, defendant in the Monkey Trial (d. 1970)
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1901 - Stefan Wyszynski, primate of Poland (d. 1981)
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1904 - Clifford D. Simak, science fiction author, (d. 1988)
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1905 - Franz König, Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna, important thinker at Vatican II and ultimately last surviving cardinal of John XXIII (d. 2004).
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1918 - Les Elgart , musician, bandleader
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1920 - P.D. James, novelist
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1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
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1924 - Leon Uris, novelist (d. 2003)
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1926 - Tony Bennett, singer
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1935 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
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1936 - Edward Petherbridge, actor
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1937 - Diane Wakoski, poet
- 1937 - Steven Berkoff, actor
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1938 - Terry Wogan, presenter
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1940 - Martin Sheen, actor
- 1940 - Lance Alworth, professional football player
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1941 - Beverly Lee, singer, member of the Shirelles
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1941 - Martha Stewart, home economist
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1946 - Jack Straw, British politician
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1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
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1950 - John Landis, film director
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1951 - Marcel Dionne, professional ice hockey player
- 1951 - Jay North, actor
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1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, footballer
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1959 - Martin Atkins, drummer
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1963 - James Hetfield, rock and roll musician, member of Metallica
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1970 - Gina G, Australian singer
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1977 - Tom Brady, American footballer
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1986 - Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau
Deaths
1100-1899
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1181 - Pope Alexander III
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1546 - Étienne Dolet, scholar and printer (b. 1509)
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1667 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss baroque architect (b. 1599)
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1721 - Grinling Gibbons, master wood-worker (b. 1648)
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1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, scholar (b. 1691)
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1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, philosopher (b. 1715)
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1792 - Richard Arkwright, industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame (b. 1732)
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1797 - Jeffrey Amherst, British military commander (b. 1717)
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1857 - Eugène Sue, French novelist (b. 1804)
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1867 - Philipp August Böckh, scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
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1877 - William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago (b.1805)
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1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
1900-1999
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1916 - Sir Roger Casement, hanged for his part in the Irish Easter Rising
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1924 - Joseph Conrad, writer (b. 1857)
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1929 - Emil Berliner, telephone and recording pioneer (b. 1851)
- 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, economist (b. 1857)
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1954 - Colette, novelist, playwright (b. 1873)
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1964 - Flannery O'Connor, novelist (b. 1925)
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1966 - Lenny Bruce, comedian (b. 1925)
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1973 - Richard Marshall, Major General (b. 1895)
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1977 - Alfred Lunt, actor (b. 1892)
- 1977 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus (b. 1913)
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1983 - Carolyn Jones, actress (b. 1929)
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1995 - Ida Lupino, actress, director (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Edward Whittemore, writer (b. 1933)
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1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian classical composer (b. 1934)
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
August 2 - August 4 - July 3 - September 3 -- listing of all days
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