Births on 3 May
2000s
Florian Wirtz
2003
German footballer (born 2003)
Rachel Zegler
2001
American actress and singer (born 2001)
1900s
Tom Hartley (cricketer)
1999
English cricketer (born 1999)
Ella Langley
1999
American singer-songwriter (born 1999)
Desiigner
1997
American rapper and singer (born 1997)
Dwayne Haskins
1997
American football player (1997–2022)
Mary Cain (athlete)
1996
American middle-distance runner
Alex Iwobi
1996
Nigerian footballer (born 1996)
Domantas Sabonis
1996
Lithuanian-American basketball player (born 1996)
Noah Munck
1996
American actor (born 1996)
Ivan Bukavshin
1995
Russian chess grandmaster (1995–2016)
Anwar El Ghazi
1995
Dutch footballer (born 1995)
Austin Meadows
1995
American baseball player (born 1995)
Samuel Seo
1991
South Korean singer and rapper
Harvey Guillén
1990
American actor (born 1990)
Brooks Koepka
1990
American professional golfer (born 1990)
James Pattinson
1990
Australian cricketer
Jesse Bromwich
1989
New Zealand & Maori international rugby league footballer
Katinka HosszĂş
1989
Hungarian swimmer (born 1989)
Ben Revere
1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Paddy Holohan
1988
Irish martial artist and municipal politician
Damla Sönmez
1987
Turkish actress (born 1987)
Homer Bailey
1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Pom Klementieff
1986
French actress (born 1986)
Ezequiel Lavezzi
1985
Argentine footballer (born 1985)
Robin Tonniau
1985
Belgian politician (born 1985)
Joseph Addai
1983
American football player (born 1983)
Romeo Castelen
1983
Dutch former footballer (born 1983)
Márton Fülöp
1983
Hungarian footballer (1983–2015)
Igor Olshansky
1982
Ukrainian gridiron football player (born 1982)
Paul Banks (American singer)
1978
British-American singer (born 1978)
Lawrence Tynes
1978
Scottish gridiron football player (born 1978)
Eric Church
1977
American singer-songwriter (born 1977)
Ryan Dempster
1977
Canadian baseball player (born 1977)
Tyronn Lue
1977
American basketball player and coach (born 1977)
Ben Olsen
1977
American soccer player, soccer coach, and sports executive (born 1977)
Jeff Halpern
1976
American ice hockey player (born 1976)
Brad Scott (Australian footballer)
1976
Australian rules footballer, born 1976
Chris Scott (Australian footballer)
1976
Australian rules footballer, born 1976
Willie Geist
1975
American television personality (born 1975)
Christina Hendricks
1975
American actress (born 1975)
Sanath Nishantha
1975
Sri Lankan politician (1975–2024)
Jamie Baulch
1973
Welsh sprinter (born 1973)
Steve Barclay
1972
British politician (born 1972)
Douglas Carswell
1971
British politician (born 1971)
Daniel Anderson (rugby league)
1967
Australian rugby league coach
Kenny Hotz
1967
Canadian comedy writer and television personality
Ignatius Aphrem II
1965
123rd Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (2014–Present)
Mark Cousins (filmmaker)
1965
Northern Irish film director
John Jensen
1965
Danish footballer (born 1965)
Mikhail Prokhorov
1965
Russian entrepreneur and politician (born 1965)
Sterling Campbell
1964
American musician
Ron Hextall
1964
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1964)
Jeff Hornacek
1963
American basketball player and coach (born 1963)
Mona Siddiqui
1963
British academic (born 1963)
Steve McClaren
1961
English association football manager and former player
David Vitter
1961
American politician (born 1961)
Leyla Zana
1961
Kurdish politician (born 1961)
Kathy Smallwood-Cook
1960
British Olympic sprinter
Uma Bharti
1959
15th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
Ben Elton
1959
British comedian and playwright (born 1959)
Bill Sienkiewicz
1958
American comic book artist (born 1958)
Sandi Toksvig
1958
Danish-British broadcaster, comedian and writer (born 1958)
Rod Langway
1957
American ice hockey player
Stephen D. M. Brown
1955
British geneticist
David Hookes
1955
Australian cricketer
Angela Bofill
1954
American R&B singer (1954–2024)
Chuck Baldwin
1952
American politician (born 1952)
Joseph W. Tobin
1952
American Catholic prelate (born 1952)
Christopher Cross
1951
American singer-songwriter (born 1951)
Ashok Gehlot
1951
Indian politician (born 1951)
Tatyana Tolstaya
1951
Russian writer
Mary Hopkin
1950
Welsh singer (born 1950)
Liam Donaldson
1949
British doctor (born 1949)
Ron Wyden
1949
American politician (born 1949)
Denis Cosgrove
1948
British cultural geographer and professor
Doug Henning
1947
Canadian illusionist (1947–2000)
Norm Chow
1946
American football player and coach (born 1946)
Greg Gumbel
1946
American sportscaster (1946–2024)
Davey Lopes
1945
American baseball player and manager (born 1945)
Jim Risch
1943
American lawyer and politician (born 1943)
Vicente Saldivar
1943
Mexican boxer
Věra Čáslavská
1942
Czech gymnast (1942–2016)
Butch Otter
1942
American politician (born 1942)
Nona Gaprindashvili
1941
Georgian chess grandmaster (born 1941)
David Koch
1940
American businessman and philanthropist (1940–2019)
Clemens Westerhof
1940
Dutch football manager (born 1940)
Omar Abdel-Rahman
1938
Egyptian Islamist militant (1938–2017)
Ron Popeil
1935
American inventor and marketing personality (1935–2021)
Henry Cooper
1934
British boxer (1934–2011)
Georges Moustaki
1934
Musical artist
Frankie Valli
1934
American singer (born 1934)
James Brown
1933
American musician (1933–2006)
Steven Weinberg
1933
American theoretical physicist (1933–2021)
Robert Osborne
1932
American film historian and actor (1932–2017)
Juan Gelman
1930
Argentine poet
Helen Walulik
1929
American baseball player
Dave Dudley
1928
American country music singer (1928–2003)
Jacques-Louis Lions
1928
French mathematician (1928–2001)
Marilyn Fisher Lundy
1925
American businesswoman and philanthropist (1925–2014)
Yehuda Amichai
1924
Israeli poet and author (1924–2000)
Ken Tyrrell
1924
British racing driver and team owner (1924–2001)
Ralph Hall
1923
American politician (1923–2019)
Len Shackleton
1922
English footballer (1922–2000)
Sugar Ray Robinson
1921
American boxer (1921–1989)
John Lewis (pianist)
1920
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (1920–2001)
Pete Seeger
1919
American musician and social activist (1919–2014)
Ted Bates (footballer)
1918
English footballer (1918–2003)
Betty Comden
1917
American dramatist and lyricist (1917–2006)
George Gaynes
1917
American actor (1917–2016)
Kiro Gligorov
1917
1st president of Macedonia
Stu Hart
1915
Canadian professional and amateur wrestler, promoter, and trainer (1915–2003)
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
1914
French poet, novelist, and journalist
William Inge
1913
American playwright and novelist (1913–1973)
Virgil Fox
1912
American organist (1912–1980)
May Sarton
1912
Belgian and American writer (1912–1995)
Norman Corwin
1910
American writer, screenwriter, and radio producer (1910–2011)
Mary Astor
1906
American actress (1906–1987)
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
1906
American writer and socialite (1906–1975)
Red Ruffing
1905
American baseball player and coach (1905–1986)
Bing Crosby
1903
American singer and actor (1903–1977)
Alfred Kastler
1902
German-born French physicist (1902–1984)
1800s
Septima Poinsette Clark
1898
American activist
Golda Meir
1898
Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
William Joseph Browne
1897
Canadian politician (1897–1989)
Karl Allmenröder
1896
German World War I flying ace
V. K. Krishna Menon
1896
Former Indian Defence Minister
Dodie Smith
1896
English novelist and playwright (1896–1990)
Cornelius Van Til
1895
Dutch-American philosopher and theologian (1895–1987)
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
1893
(1893–1975) Georgian writer
George Paget Thomson
1892
British experimental physicist (1892–1975)
Jacob Viner
1892
Canadian economist (1892–1970)
Tadeusz Peiper
1891
Eppa Rixey
1891
American baseball player (1891–1963)
Beulah Bondi
1889
American actress (1888–1981)
Gottfried Fuchs
1889
German footballer (1889–1972)
Marika Kotopouli
1887
Greek actress (1887–1954)
Marcel Dupré
1886
French organist, composer and pedagogue (1886–1971)
Fergus McMaster
1879
Australian businessman and aviator (1879–1950)
Karl Abraham
1877
German psychoanalyst (1877–1925)
François Coty
1874
French perfumer and businessman (1874–1934)
Vagn Walfrid Ekman
1874
Swedish oceanographer (1874–1954)
Pavlo Skoropadsky
1873
Ukrainian and Russian Cossack military and political official; Hetman of Ukraine (1918)
Emmett Dalton
1871
American outlaw (1871–1937)
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
1870
British princess (1870–1948)
Andy Bowen
1867
American boxer
J. T. Hearne
1867
English cricketer
Vito Volterra
1860
Italian mathematician and physicist (1860–1940)
August Herrmann
1859
American baseball executive and political figure in Cincinnati
George Gore
1854
American baseball player (1854–1933)
Jacob Riis
1849
American photographer, journalist and activist (1849–1914)
Bernhard von BĂĽlow
1849
Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909
Richard D'Oyly Carte
1844
English theatre manager and producer (1844–1901)
Charles XV
1826
King of Sweden and Norway from 1859 to 1872
Adams George Archibald
1814
Canadian Father of Confederation (1814–1892)
Before 1800
José de la Riva Agüero
1783
President of Peru in 1823
Charles Tennant
1768
Scottish chemist and industrialist (1768–1838)
Élisabeth of France
1764
French princess, Sister of Louis XVI, Martyr and Servant of God (1764–1794)
August von Kotzebue
1761
German dramatist and writer (1761–1819)
Florian Leopold Gassmann
1729
Bohemian opera composer (1729–1774)
Henri Pitot
1695
French hydraulic engineer (1695–1771)
Amaro Pargo
1678
Spanish privateer and slave trader (1678–1747)
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann
1662
German master builder and architect
Catherine of St. Augustine
1632
17th-century French nun and nurse of New France
Stephan Praetorius
1536
German theologian
Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez
1481
Spanish abbess
Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg
1479
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
Raffaele Riario
1461
Italian cardinal (1461–1521)
Margaret of York
1446
Duchess of Burgundy from 1468 to 1477
Pedro González de Mendoza
1428
Spanish cardinal and statesman (1428-1495)
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
1415
English noblewoman (1415–1495)
Louis, Count of Évreux
1276
French prince (1276–1319)
Emilia Bicchieri
1238
Italian Roman Catholic professed religious
Heraclius Constantine
612
Byzantine emperor in 641
KĘĽan Joy Chitam I
490
Ajaw