Today in History
3 October
234 births · 107 deaths · 45 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1978
Jake Shears
American singer (born 1978)
Notable Births
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Noah Schnapp
b. 2004
American actor (born 2004)
Anton Lundell
b. 2001
Finnish ice hockey player (born 2001)
C. J. Stroud
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
CJ Abrams
b. 2000
American baseball player (born 2000)
Jin Boyang
b. 1997
Chinese figure skater (born 1997)
Jonathan Isaac
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Bang Chan
b. 1997
Australian singer and rapper (born 1997)
Jake Shears
b. 1978
American singer (born 1978)
Notable Deaths
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Patricia Routledge
d. 2025
English actress and singer (1929–2025)
Michel Blanc
d. 2024
French actor, writer and director (1952–2024)
Pierre Christin
d. 2024
French comics creator and writer (1938–2024)
Cid Moreira
d. 2024
Brazilian journalist and television anchor (1927–2024)
Mary O'Rourke
d. 2024
Irish politician (1937–2024)
Todd Akin
d. 2021
American politician (1947–2021)
Denis Healey
d. 2015
British politician (1917–2015)
Nurettin Ersin
d. 2005
18th Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces (1983)
On This Day in History
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2024
Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
Bengali language
2023
Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
Wab Kinew
2022
Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Svante Pääbo
2021
Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
2021 Milan Pilatus PC-12 crash
2015
Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
Kunduz hospital airstrike
2013
At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck
2009
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
Azerbaijan
2008
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008