Today in History
3 August
242 births · 111 deaths · 48 events recorded
Notable Births
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Zach Wilson
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Brahim Díaz
b. 1999
Morocco international footballer (born 1999)
Yoo Yeon-jung
b. 1999
South Korean singer (born 1999)
Chris Murphy
b. 1973
American politician (born 1973)
Lucky Dube
b. 1964
South African reggae musician (1964–2007)
Morris Berman
b. 1944
American historian (born 1944)
Rupert Brooke
b. 1887
English poet (1887–1915)
Elisha Otis
b. 1811
19th-century American industrialist and inventor of the Otis Elevator
Notable Deaths
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Loni Anderson
d. 2025
American actress (1945–2025)
Yamini Krishnamurthy
d. 2024
Indian dancer (1940–2024)
Bram Moolenaar
d. 2023
Dutch computer programmer (1961–2023)
Jackie Walorski
d. 2022
American politician (1963–2022)
John Hume
d. 2020
Irish nationalist politician (1937–2020)
Robert Conquest
d. 2015
British-American historian and poet (1917–2015)
Mel Farr
d. 2015
American football player and businessman (1944–2015)
Edward Whittemore
d. 1995
American novelist
On This Day in History
All 48 ›
2023
Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.
2023 Slovenia floods
2019
Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
Lyubov Sobol
2019
Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
2019 El Paso Walmart shooting
2018
Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
2014
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
2014 Ludian earthquake
2014
The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
Yazidi genocide
2010
Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
2010 Karachi riots
2007
Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
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