Deaths on 3 May
2000s
Dick Rutan
2024
Aviation pioneer (1938–2024)
Lloyd Price
2021
American rock and roll singer (1933–2021)
Victoria Barbă
2020
Moldovan film director (1926–2020)
Dave Greenfield
2020
English rock keyboardist (1949–2020)
Daliah Lavi
2017
Israeli actress, singer and model (1942–2017)
Ian Deans
2016
Canadian politician (1937–2016)
Jadranka Stojaković
2016
Musical artist
Revaz Chkheidze
2015
Georgian film director
Danny Jones (rugby league)
2015
Wales international rugby league footballer (1986–2015)
Warren Smith (golfer)
2015
American golfer
Gary Becker
2014
American economist (1930–2014)
Francisco Icaza
2014
Mexican artist known for travels and paintings (1930–2014)
Jim Oberstar
2014
American politician (1934–2014)
Joe Astroth
2013
American baseball player (1922–2013)
Herbert Blau
2013
American director and theoretician of performance (1926–2013)
Cedric Brooks
2013
Musical artist
Keith Carter (swimmer)
2013
American swimmer (1924–2013)
Brad Drewett
2013
Australian tennis player (1958-2013)
David Morris Kern
2013
American businessman (1909–2013)
Curtis Rouse
2013
American football player (1960–2013)
Branko Vukelić
2013
Croatian politician (1958–2013)
Jorge Illueca
2012
Vice President of Panama (1982–1984) & 25th President of Panama (1984)
Felix Werder
2012
Australian composer (1922–2012)
Jackie Cooper
2011
American actor and director (1922–2011)
Sergo Kotrikadze
2011
Georgian footballer
Thanasis Veggos
2011
Greek actor and director (1927–2011)
Roy Carrier
2010
Musical artist
Peter O'Donnell
2010
English writer
Günter Wendt
2010
Pad leader for Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space launches
Renée Morisset
2009
Musical artist
Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar
2009
Marathi writer
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
2008
Spanish politician (1926–2008)
Warja Lavater
2007
Swiss artist and illustrator (1913–2007)
Wally Schirra
2007
American astronaut (1923–2007)
Knock Yokoyama
2007
Japanese politician and comedian
Karel Appel
2006
Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (1921–2006)
Pramod Mahajan
2006
Indian politician
Earl Woods
2006
Father of American golfer Tiger Woods (1932–2006)
Ken Downing
2004
British racing driver (1917–2004)
Darrell Johnson
2004
American baseball player, coach, manager, and scout (1928–2004)
Suzy Parker
2003
American model and actress (1932–2003)
Barbara Castle
2002
British politician (1910–2002)
Yevgeny Svetlanov
2002
Soviet and Russian conductor (1928–2002)
Júlia Báthory
2000
Hungarian glass designer (1901–2000)
John O'Connor (cardinal)
2000
American Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
1900s
Joe Adcock
1999
American baseball player and manager (1927–1999)
Steve Chiasson
1999
Canadian ice hockey player (1967–1999)
Godfrey Evans
1999
English cricketer
Gene Raymond
1998
American actor (1908–1998)
Sébastien Enjolras
1997
French racing driver
Narciso Yepes
1997
Spanish classical guitarist (1927-1997)
Dimitri Fampas
1996
Greek classical guitarist and composer
Alex Kellner
1996
American baseball player (1924–1996)
Jack Weston
1996
American actor (1924–1996)
Keith Daniel Williams
1996
American triple murderer executed in California (1947–1996)
George Murphy
1992
American actor and politician (1902–1992)
Jerzy Kosiński
1991
Polish-American writer (1933–1991)
Christine Jorgensen
1989
American transgender actress (1926–1989)
Lev Pontryagin
1988
Soviet mathematician
Dalida
1987
Italian-French singer and actress (1933–1987)
Robert Alda
1986
American actor (1914–1986)
Nargis
1981
Indian actress (1929–1981)
Bill Downs
1978
American broadcast journalist and war correspondent (1914–1978)
Kenneth Bailey (lawyer)
1972
Australian public servant, lawyer and diplomat
Emil Breitkreutz
1972
American middle-distance runner
Bruce Cabot
1972
American actor (1904–1972)
Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk
1970
Turkish footballer and sailplane pilot
Zakir Husain
1969
President of India from 1967 to 1969
Frank Foster (cricketer)
1958
English cricketer (1889–1958)
Fanny Walden
1949
English footballer and cricketer
Ernst Tandefelt
1948
Harry Miller (auto racing)
1943
American race car designer and builder
Thorvald Stauning
1942
Prime Minister of Denmark (1873–1942)
Madeleine Desroseaux
1939
Jessie Willcox Smith
1935
American illustrator (1863–1935)
Charles Fort
1932
American writer (1874–1932)
Clément Ader
1925
French inventor and engineer (1841–1925)
Théodore Pilette
1921
Belgian racing driver (1883–1921)
Elizabeth Almira Allen
1919
Charlie Soong
1918
Chinese businessman (1861–1918)
Tom Clarke (Irish republican)
1916
Irish republican (1858–1916)
Thomas MacDonagh
1916
Irish revolutionary (1878–1916)
Patrick Pearse
1916
Irish revolutionary (1879–1916)
Howard Taylor Ricketts
1910
American pathologist
1800s
Leonidas Smolents
1882
Greek politician and soldier (1806–1882)
Adolphe Adam
1856
French composer (1803–1856)
Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis
1856
French Legion of Honour recipient and imperial guardsman (1788–1856)
Ferdinando Paer
1839
Italian composer
Before 1800
Martin Gerbert
1793
German scholar (1720–1793)
John Winthrop (educator)
1779
American mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1714–1779)
Francesco Algarotti
1764
Italian polymath (1712–1764)
George Psalmanazar
1763
French writer (1679–1763)
Pope Benedict XIV
1758
Head of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758
Samuel Ogle
1752
Governor of colonial Maryland
John Willison
1750
Church of Scotland minister (1680–1750)
John Leverett the Younger
1724
Anglo-American lawyer and president of Harvard College
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
1704
Czech-Austrian composer and violinist (1644–1704)
Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
1693
French soldier and courtier
James Sharp (bishop)
1679
Scottish Church of Scotland bishop (1618-1679)
Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621)
1621
English aristocrat (c. 1541–1621)
Henry Garnet
1606
16th-century English Jesuit priest (1555–1606)
Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1589
16th century German nobleman
Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez
1534
Spanish abbess
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent
1524
English peer
John Devereux, 9th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
1501
English Baron
Mehmed II
1481
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1444–1446, 1451–1481)
Antipope Alexander V
1410
Papal claimant from 1409 to 1410 (c. 1339 – 1410)
Alexios II of Trebizond
1330
Emperor of Trebizond from 1297 to 1330
John I, Duke of Brabant
1294
Duke of Brabant (1252/53 – 1294)
Béla IV of Hungary
1270
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1235 to 1270
Matilda of Boulogne
1152
Queen of England from 1135 to 1152
Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil
738
Ajaw
Princess Tōchi
678
Royal consort of Japan (d. 678)