Births on 3 January
2000s
Carlos Baleba
2004
Cameroonian footballer (born 2004)
Toby Collyer
2004
English footballer (born 2004)
Habib Diarra
2004
Senegalese footballer (born 2004)
Kyle Rittenhouse
2003
American known for the Kenosha unrest shooting (born 2003)
Greta Thunberg
2003
Swedish activist (born 2003)
Alan Virginius
2003
French footballer (born 2003)
Nico González (footballer, born 2002)
2002
Spanish footballer
Deni Avdija
2001
Israeli basketball player (born 2001)
Leandro Barreiro
2000
Luxembourgish footballer (born 2000)
João Mário (footballer, born 2000)
2000
Portuguese footballer
1900s
Patrick Cutrone
1998
Italian footballer (born 1998)
Emiru
1998
American streamer and cosplayer (born 1998)
Fodé Ballo-Touré
1997
Footballer (born 1997)
Jérémie Boga
1997
Ivorian-French footballer (born 1997)
Kyron McMaster
1997
British Virgin Islands athlete (born 1997)
Léo Ortiz
1996
Brazilian footballer
Florence Pugh
1996
English actress (born 1996)
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson
1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Jisoo
1995
South Korean singer and actress (born 1995)
Paddy Pimblett
1995
English mixed martial artist (born 1995)
Kim Seol-hyun
1995
South Korean actress and singer (born 1995)
Tonny Vilhena
1995
Dutch footballer (born 1995)
Isaquias Queiroz
1994
Brazilian canoeist (born 1994)
Doug McDermott
1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Sio Siua Taukeiaho
1992
NZ & Tonga international rugby league footballer
Jerson Cabral
1991
Dutch-Cape Verdean footballer
Özgür Çek
1991
Turkish footballer
Ryan Ellis
1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Sébastien Faure (footballer)
1991
French footballer (born 1991)
Dane Gagai
1991
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1991)
Goo Hara
1991
South Korean singer and actress (1991–2019)
Darius Morris
1991
American basketball player (1991–2024)
Joonas Nättinen
1991
Finnish ice hockey player
Yoichiro Kakitani
1990
Japanese footballer (born 1990)
Jordi Masip
1989
Spanish association football player
Eric Sim
1989
Canadian YouTuber and former baseball player (born 1989)
KĹŤhei Uchimura
1989
Japanese gymnast (born 1989)
Ikechi Anya
1988
Scottish association football player
The Completionist
1988
American YouTuber (born 1988)
Jonny Evans
1988
Northern Irish footballer (born 1988)
Matt Frattin
1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Adrián (footballer)
1987
Spanish footballer (born 1987)
Reto Berra
1987
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1987)
Kim Ok-vin
1987
South Korean actress (born 1987)
Dana Hussain
1986
Iraqi sprinter (born 1986)
Lloyd (singer)
1986
American singer
Greg Nwokolo
1986
Indonesian footballer
Nikola Peković
1986
Montenegrin basketball player (born 1986)
Cedric Simmons
1986
American-born Bulgarian basketball player
Dmitry Starodubtsev
1986
Russian pole vaulter
Nicole Beharie
1985
American actress and singer
Linas Kleiza
1985
Lithuanian basketball executive
Evan Moore
1985
American football player and sportscaster
Noelle Quinn
1985
American basketball player/coach (born 1985)
Billy Mehmet
1984
Footballer (born 1984)
Katie McGrath
1983
Irish actress
Peter Clarke (footballer)
1982
English footballer (born 1982)
Park Ji-yoon
1982
South Korean actress and singer (born 1982)
Lasse Nilsson
1982
Swedish former professional footballer (born 1982)
Eli Manning
1981
American football player (born 1981)
Bryan Clay
1980
American decathlete (born 1980)
Eli Crane
1980
American politician (born 1980)
Telly Leung
1980
American actor and singer
Angela Ruggiero
1980
American women's ice hockey player (born 1980)
David Tyree
1980
American football player and executive (born 1980)
Kurt Vile
1980
American musician (born 1980)
Mary Wineberg
1980
American track and field athlete
Kate Levering
1979
American actress and dancer (born 1979)
Dimitra Kalentzou
1978
Greek basketball player
Kimberley Locke
1978
American singer and TV personality
Mike York
1978
American ice hockey player (born 1978)
Lee Bowyer
1977
English footballer and manager
A. J. Burnett
1977
American baseball player (born 1977)
Angelos Basinas
1976
Greek footballer (born 1976)
Nicholas Gonzalez
1976
American actor
Thomas Bangalter
1975
French musician (born 1975)
Jason Marsden
1975
American actor (born 1975)
Danica McKellar
1975
American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate (born 1975)
Robert-Jan Derksen
1974
Dutch professional golfer
Alessandro Petacchi
1974
Italian road bicycle racer
Todd Warriner
1974
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1974)
Dan Harmon
1973
American screenwriter (born 1973)
Sarah Alexander
1971
English actress (born 1971)
Cory Cross
1971
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1971)
James Carter (musician)
1969
American jazz musician (born 1969)
Jarmo Lehtinen
1969
Finnish rally co-driver (born 1969)
Michael Schumacher
1969
German racing driver (born 1969)
Gerda Weissensteiner
1969
Italian bobsledder and luger
Chetan Sharma
1966
Indian cricket player and politician
Cheryl Miller
1964
American basketball player
Stewart Hosie
1963
Scottish politician (born 1963)
Aamer Malik
1963
Pakistani cricketer (born 1963)
Alex Wheatle
1963
British writer (1963–2025)
Darren Daulton
1962
American baseball player (1962–2017)
Gavin Hastings
1962
British Lions & Scotland international rugby union player
Russell Spence
1960
British racing driver (born 1960)
Dave Dobbyn
1957
New Zealand musician and producer (born 1957)
Mel Gibson
1956
American actor and filmmaker (born 1956)
Denis Walter
1955
Australian radio and TV announcer
Justin Fleming (author)
1953
Australian playwright and author (born 1953)
Mohamed Waheed Hassan
1953
Maldivian politician; president 2012–2013
Peter Taylor (footballer, born 1953)
1953
English footballer and football manager (born 1953)
Esperanza Aguirre
1952
Spanish politician (born 1952)
Gianfranco Fini
1952
Italian politician (born 1952)
Jim Ross
1952
American professional wrestling commentator (born 1952)
Linda Dobbs
1951
Sierra Leonean–English judge (born 1951)
Gary Nairn
1951
Australian politician (1951–2024)
Victoria Principal
1950
American actress (born 1950)
Linda Steiner
1950
American professor and journalist
Vesna Vulović
1950
Serbian flight attendant (1950–2016)
Ian Nankervis
1948
Australian rules footballer, born 1948
Fran Cotton
1947
British Lions & England rugby union international (born 1947)
Zulema
1947
American singer
John Paul Jones (musician)
1946
British bassist (born 1946)
Michalis Kritikopoulos
1946
Greek footballer
Stephen Stills
1945
American musician (born 1945)
Blanche d'Alpuget
1944
Australian writer (born 1944)
Doreen Massey (geographer)
1944
British social scientist and geographer (b.1944)
Van Dyke Parks
1943
American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer (born 1943)
John Marsden (lawyer)
1942
Australian lawyer
John Thaw
1942
English actor (1942–2002)
Malcolm Dick (rugby union)
1941
Rugby player
Bernard Blaut
1940
Polish footballer (1940–2007)
Leo de Berardinis
1940
Italian stage actor and theatre director
Arik Einstein
1939
Israeli musical artist
Bobby Hull
1939
Canadian ice hockey player (1939–2023)
Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell
1938
British civil servant (born 1938)
K. Ganeshalingam
1938
Glen A. Larson
1937
American television producer and writer (1937–2014)
Raymond Garneau
1935
Canadian politician
Marpessa Dawn
1934
American-French actress (1934–2008)
Carla Anderson Hills
1934
American lawyer and public servant (born 1934)
Geoffrey Bindman
1933
British lawyer (1933–2025)
Anne Stevenson
1933
British-American poet (1933–2020)
Rolf Steiner
1933
Retired German mercenary
Dabney Coleman
1932
American actor (1932–2024)
Eeles Landström
1932
Finnish pole vaulter (1932–2022)
Stephen Fabian
1930
American illustrator (1930–2025)
Robert Loggia
1930
American actor (1930–2015)
Sergio Leone
1929
Italian filmmaker (1929–1989)
Ernst Mahle
1929
Brazilian composer (1929–2025)
Gordon Moore
1929
American businessman (1929–2023)
Abdul Rahman Ya'kub
1928
Malaysian politician (1928–2015), Governor of Sarawak
W. Michael Blumenthal
1926
German-American businessman and politician (born 1926)
George Martin
1926
English record producer (1926–2016)
Jill Balcon
1925
British actress (1925–2009)
Otto Beisheim
1924
German businessman (1924–2013)
Enzo Cozzolini
1924
Italian footballer (1924-1962)
André Franquin
1924
Belgian comics artist (1924–1997)
Nell Rankin
1924
American opera singer (1924–2005)
Hank Stram
1923
American football coach (1923–2005)
Bill Travers
1922
British actor and activist (1922–1994)
Isabella Bashmakova
1921
Russian historian of mathematics (1921-2005)
Siegfried Buback
1920
Public Prosecutor General of Germany from 1974 to 1977
Herbie Nichols
1919
American jazz pianist and composer (1919–1963)
Albert Mol
1917
Dutch actor (1917–2004)
Roger Williams Straus Jr.
1917
American publisher (1917–2004)
Betty Furness
1916
American actress, consumer advocate, and special assistant to the president (1916-1994)
Fred Haas
1916
American golfer (1916–2004)
Jack Levine
1915
American Social Realist painter and printmaker
Federico Borrell GarcĂa
1912
Spanish anarchist
Renaude Lapointe
1912
Canadian journalist and Senator
Armand Lohikoski
1912
Finnish American film director and screenwriter (1912–2005)
Frenchy Bordagaray
1910
American baseball player (1910–2000)
John Sturges
1910
American film director (1910–1992)
Victor Borge
1909
Danish-American comedian and pianist (1909–2000)
Ray Milland
1907
Welsh-American actor and film director (1907–1986)
Ulyana Barkova
1906
Russian farm worker (1906–1991)
Dante Giacosa
1905
Italian automobile designer (1905–1996)
Anna May Wong
1905
American actress (1905–1961)
Ngo Dinh Diem
1901
President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963
Donald J. Russell
1900
American railroad executive
1800s
Carolyn Haywood
1898
American writer
Eithne Coyle
1897
Irish republican activist
Marion Davies
1897
American actress (1897–1961)
ZaSu Pitts
1894
American actress (1894–1963)
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
August Macke
1887
German painter (1887–1914)
Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff
1887
Bulgarian-American philosopher and author
John Gould Fletcher
1886
American poet and winner of the Pulitzer
Arthur Mailey
1886
Australian cricketer (1886–1967)
Harry Elkins Widener
1885
American businessman and bibliophile (1885–1912)
Raoul Koczalski
1884
Polish pianist and composer
Clement Attlee
1883
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951
Duncan Gillis
1883
Canadian athlete (1883–1963)
Francis Browne
1880
Irish Jesuit priest and photographer
Josephine Hull
1877
American stage and film actress (1877–1957)
Wilhelm Pieck
1876
President of East Germany from 1949 to 1960
IchizĹŤ Kobayashi
1873
Japanese industrialist (1873–1957)
Henry Handel Richardson
1870
Australian author (1870–1946)
Henry Lytton
1865
British actor and singer (1865–1936)
Matthew Nathan
1862
British colonial administrator (1862–1939)
Ernest Renshaw
1861
British tennis player
William Renshaw
1861
British tennis player
Hubert Bland
1855
English author
Sophie Elkan
1853
Swedish writer and translator (1853-1921)
Ettore Marchiafava
1847
Italian scientist (1847–1935)
Father Damien
1840
Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint (1840–1889)
Sakamoto RyĹŤma
1836
Japanese samurai and politician (1836–1867)
Savitribai Phule
1831
Indian educater and social reformer (1831–1898)
Charles Piazzi Smyth
1819
British astronomer (1819–1900)
Samuel C. Pomeroy
1816
American politician (1816–1891)
Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie
1810
Irish-born Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer
Henriette Sontag
1806
German operatic singer (1806–1854)
Douglas William Jerrold
1803
English dramatist and writer (1803–1857)
Charles Pelham Villiers
1802
British lawyer and politician (1802–1898)
Before 1800
Lucretia Mott
1793
American Quaker abolitionist and suffragist (1793–1880)
Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski
1778
Catholic archbishop (1778 – 1861)
Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont
1775
Irish peer and politician
Veerapandiya Kattabomman
1760
Palaiyakkarar of Tenkasi
Angelo Emo
1731
Venetian naval officer (1731–1792)
Fredrik Hasselqvist
1722
Swedish traveller and naturalist
Richard Gridley
1710
British and Continental Army officer (1710–1796)
Pietro Metastasio
1698
Italian poet and librettist (1698–1782)
James Harrington (author)
1611
English political theorist (1611–1677)
Gian Girolamo Albani
1509
Italian Cardinal
Cicero
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Roman statesman and lawyer (106–43 BC)