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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of December 1799 | EVENT | War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshall Sztaray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch. |
| 3rd of December 1800 | EVENT | War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war. |
| 3rd of December 1818 | EVENT | Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state. |
| 3rd of December 1854 | EVENT | Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. |
| 3rd of December 1901 | EVENT | US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". |
| 3rd of December 1904 | EVENT | The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory. |
| 3rd of December 1910 | EVENT | Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. |
| 3rd of December 1912 | EVENT | First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place. |
| 3rd of December 1912 | EVENT | Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War. |
| 3rd of December 1917 | EVENT | After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic. |
| 3rd of December 1944 | EVENT | Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army. |
| 3rd of December 1959 | EVENT | The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire. |
| 3rd of December 1964 | EVENT | Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property. |
| 3rd of December 1967 | EVENT | At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky). |
| 3rd of December 1970 | EVENT | October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de liberation du Quebec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba. |
| 3rd of December 1971 | EVENT | Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches pre-emptive strike against India and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives. |
| 3rd of December 1973 | EVENT | Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. |
| 3rd of December 1976 | EVENT | An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later. |
| 3rd of December 1979 | EVENT | In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert . |
| 3rd of December 1982 | EVENT | A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin. |
| 3rd of December 1984 | EVENT | Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000 : 600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history. |
| 3rd of December 1989 | EVENT | Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between Nato and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end. |
| 3rd of December 1990 | EVENT | At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 7 passengers and 1 crew member aboard flight 1482. |
| 3rd of December 1992 | EVENT | UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia. |
| 3rd of December 1992 | EVENT | The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruna, Spain, and spills much of its cargo. |
| 3rd of December 1997 | EVENT | In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign The Ottawa treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however. |
| 3rd of December 1999 | EVENT | NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. |
| 3rd of December 1999 | EVENT | Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts. |
| 3rd of December 2005 | EVENT | XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California. |
| 3rd of December 2007 | EVENT | Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods. |
| 3rd of December 1368 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles VI of France (d. 1422) |
| 3rd of December 1560 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (d. 1627) |
| 3rd of December 1596 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684) |
| 3rd of December 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (d. 1754) |
| 3rd of December 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1783) |
| 3rd of December 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Stuart, American painter (d. 1828) |
| 3rd of December 1776 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832) |
| 3rd of December 1800 | BIRTHDAY | France Preseren, Slovenian poet (d. 1849) |
| 3rd of December 1826 | BIRTHDAY | George B. McClellan, American Civil War general (d. 1885) |
| 3rd of December 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916) |
| 3rd of December 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Octavia Hill, British housing and open-space activist (d. 1912) |
| 3rd of December 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Phoebe Hearst, American socialite (d. 1919) |
| 3rd of December 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist (d. 1911) |
| 3rd of December 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (d. 1899) |
| 3rd of December 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British writer (d. 1924) |
| 3rd of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter (d. 1955) |
| 3rd of December 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
| 3rd of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945) |
| 3rd of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Rajendra Prasad, first President of India (d. 1963) |
| 3rd of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965) |
| 3rd of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Manne Siegbahn, Nobel laureate (d. 1978) |
| 3rd of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel (d. 1959) |
| 3rd of December 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Khudiram Bose, Indian Revolutionary (d. 1908) |
| 3rd of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician (d. 1975) |
| 3rd of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Freud, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst (d. 1982) |
| 3rd of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965) |
| 3rd of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967) |
| 3rd of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Underdown, English actor (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Nino Rota, Italian composer (d. 1979) |
| 3rd of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Curtin, American soprano |
| 3rd of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Moyra Fraser, British actress (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Mieres, Argentine racing driver |
| 3rd of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | John Winter, Australian high jumper (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Sionil Jose, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature |
| 3rd of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ferlin Husky, American singer |
| 3rd of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Dae Jung, South Korean President, Nobel laureate (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Williams, American singer. |
| 3rd of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Luc Godard, French film director |
| 3rd of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jaye P. Morgan, American singer |
| 3rd of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author |
| 3rd of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Corry Brokken, Dutch singer |
| 3rd of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 3rd of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Coster, American actor |
| 3rd of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut |
| 3rd of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Bernice Johnson, American politician |
| 3rd of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Allison, American race car driver |
| 3rd of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist |
| 3rd of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Malepart, Canadian politician (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey R. Holland, American religious leader |
| 3rd of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Schwarzer, German journalist |
| 3rd of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Nicholas English actor producer |
| 3rd of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist |
| 3rd of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Krenwinkel, American murderess |
| 3rd of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ozzy Osbourne, English singer |
| 3rd of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Akii-Bua, Ugandan athlete (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Menzies, American actress |
| 3rd of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Thomas, American singer (Jefferson Starship) |
| 3rd of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Juantorena, Won gold in both the 400 and 800 meters at the 1976 Summer Olympics |
| 3rd of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Riki Choshu, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 3rd of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (d. 1994) |
| 3rd of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Mears, American race car driver |
| 3rd of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Stevens, British singer (Brotherhood of Man) |
| 3rd of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John and Greg Rice, American twin actors |
| 3rd of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Hinn, American televangelist |
| 3rd of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Smith, English comedian |
| 3rd of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Klammer, Austrian skier |
| 3rd of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lothar Schneider, German footballer |
| 3rd of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Andreacchi, American author |
| 3rd of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Jeffs, American convicted polygamist |
| 3rd of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Culp, American actor |
| 3rd of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Quennessen, French actress (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Eamonn Holmes, Northern Irish TV presenter |
| 3rd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Daryl Hannah, American actress |
| 3rd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Julianne Moore, American actress |
| 3rd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player |
| 3rd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Adal Ramones, Mexican television host |
| 3rd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Lally, American musician (Fugazi) |
| 3rd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Terri Schiavo, American right to die figure (d. 2005) |
| 3rd of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Stanton, American animator |
| 3rd of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Katarina Witt, German figure skater |
| 3rd of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Harris, American actor |
| 3rd of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Flemming Povlsen, Danish footballer |
| 3rd of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Fraser, Canadian-American actor |
| 3rd of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Montell Jordan, American singer and record producer |
| 3rd of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Steer, British guitarist |
| 3rd of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Byrd, American baseball player |
| 3rd of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsey Hunter, American basketball player |
| 3rd of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Karembeu, French footballer |
| 3rd of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lu Parker, American broadcast journalist and former beauty queen |
| 3rd of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ola Rapace, Swedish actor |
| 3rd of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer |
| 3rd of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon White, American mixed martial artist |
| 3rd of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress |
| 3rd of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Bucky Lasek, American skateboarder |
| 3rd of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler |
| 3rd of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Leung, Hong Kong disc jockey |
| 3rd of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Marie Combs, American actress |
| 3rd of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | MC Frontalot, Damian Hess, American rapper |
| 3rd of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Morris, Canadian pop singer |
| 3rd of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Avalon, American rapper |
| 3rd of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Malinda Williams, American actress |
| 3rd of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Csaba Czebely, Hungarian drummer (Pokolgep) |
| 3rd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Boucher, South African cricketer |
| 3rd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Silvia Fontana, Italian figure skater |
| 3rd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius Griffin, American football player |
| 3rd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Glover, American baseball player |
| 3rd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Smith, American vocalist, songwriter and guitarist |
| 3rd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby union footballer |
| 3rd of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Durbin, American baseball player |
| 3rd of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Ma?ysz, Polish ski-jumper |
| 3rd of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Evans, American football player |
| 3rd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Alexandersson, Swedish footballer |
| 3rd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jiri Bicek, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 3rd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Trina, American rapper |
| 3rd of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Bedingfield, English singer |
| 3rd of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany Haddish, American dancer, comedian & actress |
| 3rd of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rock Cartwright, American football player |
| 3rd of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor |
| 3rd of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Chlumsky, American actress |
| 3rd of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Zlata Filipovic, Bosnian Author |
| 3rd of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Laryea Kingston, Ghanaian football player |
| 3rd of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Sorgi, American football player |
| 3rd of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jenna Dewan, American actress |
| 3rd of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | David Villa, Spanish footballer |
| 3rd of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tyjuan Hagler, American football player |
| 3rd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor |
| 3rd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer |
| 3rd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Sbaraglini, Argentine-born Italian rugby player |
| 3rd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Corpas, Panamanian baseball player |
| 3rd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sherri DuPree, American vocalist |
| 3rd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Donald, New Zealand rugby player |
| 3rd of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Laszlo Cseh, Hungarian swimmer |
| 3rd of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Randolph, American footballer |
| 3rd of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | S?la Sahin, German actress |
| 3rd of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Swift, American basketball player |
| 3rd of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Seyfried, American actress |
| 3rd of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Williams, American basketball player |
| 3rd of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Radek Smolenak, Czech hockey player |
| 3rd of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Angarano, American actor |
| 3rd of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Sacramone, American gymnast |
| 3rd of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Robiskie, American football player |
| 3rd of December 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph McManners, English actor |
| 3rd of December 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Jake T. Austin, American actor |
| 3rd of December 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway |
| 3rd of December 0311 | DEATH | Diocletianus, Roman emperor (Born 244) |
| 3rd of December 1154 | DEATH | Pope Anastasius IV |
| 3rd of December 1265 | DEATH | Odofredus, Italian jurist |
| 3rd of December 1533 | DEATH | Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (Born 1479) |
| 3rd of December 1552 | DEATH | St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (Born 1506) |
| 3rd of December 1610 | DEATH | Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (Born 1548) |
| 3rd of December 1706 | DEATH | Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (Born 1637) |
| 3rd of December 1765 | DEATH | Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (Born 1713) |
| 3rd of December 1789 | DEATH | Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (Born 1714) |
| 3rd of December 1815 | DEATH | John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (Born 1735) |
| 3rd of December 1845 | DEATH | Gregor MacGregor, Scottish con-man (Born 1786) |
| 3rd of December 1882 | DEATH | Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1811) |
| 3rd of December 1888 | DEATH | Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (Born 1816) |
| 3rd of December 1890 | DEATH | Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (Born 1851) |
| 3rd of December 1892 | DEATH | Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (Born 1820) |
| 3rd of December 1894 | DEATH | Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer (Born 1850) |
| 3rd of December 1902 | DEATH | Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (Born 1833) |
| 3rd of December 1910 | DEATH | Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (Born 1821) |
| 3rd of December 1912 | DEATH | Prudente Jose de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (Born 1841) |
| 3rd of December 1919 | DEATH | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (Born 1841) |
| 3rd of December 1928 | DEATH | Ezra Meeker, American pioneer and businessman (Born 1830) |
| 3rd of December 1934 | DEATH | Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (Born 1849) |
| 3rd of December 1935 | DEATH | Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (Born 1868) |
| 3rd of December 1939 | DEATH | Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (Born 1848) |
| 3rd of December 1941 | DEATH | Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (Born 1883) |
| 3rd of December 1949 | DEATH | Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress (Born 1876) |
| 3rd of December 1955 | DEATH | Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (Born 1894) |
| 3rd of December 1967 | DEATH | Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of December 1969 | DEATH | Mathias Wieman, German actor (Born 1902) |
| 3rd of December 1972 | DEATH | Bill Johnson, American musician (Born 1872) |
| 3rd of December 1973 | DEATH | Emile Christian, American musician (Born 1895) |
| 3rd of December 1979 | DEATH | Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (Born 1905) |
| 3rd of December 1980 | DEATH | Oswald Mosley, British Fascist (Born 1896) |
| 3rd of December 1981 | DEATH | Walter Knott, American farmer (Born 1889) |
| 3rd of December 1984 | DEATH | Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (Born 1919) |
| 3rd of December 1993 | DEATH | Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of December 1994 | DEATH | Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist (Born 1947) |
| 3rd of December 1994 | DEATH | Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (Born 1933) |
| 3rd of December 1995 | DEATH | Jimmy Jewel, English actor (Born 1909) |
| 3rd of December 1995 | DEATH | Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (Born 1946) |
| 3rd of December 1996 | DEATH | Georges Duby, French historian (Born 1919) |
| 3rd of December 1998 | DEATH | Pierre Hetu, Quebec conductor and pianist (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of December 1999 | DEATH | Scatman John, American singer (Born 1942) |
| 3rd of December 1999 | DEATH | Madeline Kahn, American actress (Born 1942) |
| 3rd of December 1999 | DEATH | Jarl Wahlstrom, 12th General of The Salvation Army (Born 1918) |
| 3rd of December 2000 | DEATH | Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of December 2000 | DEATH | Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (Born 1922) |
| 3rd of December 2002 | DEATH | Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (Born 1970) |
| 3rd of December 2003 | DEATH | David Hemmings, English actor (Born 1941) |
| 3rd of December 2004 | DEATH | Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (Born 1911) |
| 3rd of December 2004 | DEATH | Teo Peter, Romanian rock musician and bass player for Compact (Born 1954) |
| 3rd of December 2005 | DEATH | Herb Moford, American baseball player (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of December 2006 | DEATH | Logan Whitehurst, American musician (Born 1977) |
| 3rd of December 2007 | DEATH | James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (Born 1948) |
| 3rd of December 2008 | DEATH | Robert Zajonc, Polish-American social psychologist (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of December 2009 | DEATH | Richard Todd, British actor (Born 1919) |
| 3rd of December 2010 | DEATH | Abdumalik Bahori, Tajik poet and fiction writer (Born1927) |