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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of May 1481 | EVENT | The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. |
| 3rd of May 1491 | EVENT | Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of Joao I. |
| 3rd of May 1715 | EVENT | "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years). |
| 3rd of May 1791 | EVENT | The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish : Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
| 3rd of May 1802 | EVENT | Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city. |
| 3rd of May 1808 | EVENT | Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Principe Pio hill. |
| 3rd of May 1808 | EVENT | Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia. |
| 3rd of May 1811 | EVENT | In the first day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro frontal assults by the French army, under Marshall Massena, fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro, defended by the the Anglo-Portugese army commended by the Duke of Wellington. |
| 3rd of May 1815 | EVENT | Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war. |
| 3rd of May 1830 | EVENT | The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. |
| 3rd of May 1837 | EVENT | The University of Athens is founded. |
| 3rd of May 1849 | EVENT | The May Uprising in Dresden begins : the last of the German revolutions of 1848. |
| 3rd of May 1860 | EVENT | Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden. |
| 3rd of May 1867 | EVENT | The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island. |
| 3rd of May 1877 | EVENT | Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game. |
| 3rd of May 1901 | EVENT | The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 3rd of May 1913 | EVENT | Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. |
| 3rd of May 1915 | EVENT | The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. |
| 3rd of May 1916 | EVENT | The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin. |
| 3rd of May 1920 | EVENT | A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. |
| 3rd of May 1921 | EVENT | West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax. |
| 3rd of May 1924 | EVENT | Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska |
| 3rd of May 1928 | EVENT | Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China. |
| 3rd of May 1933 | EVENT | Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint. |
| 3rd of May 1937 | EVENT | Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |
| 3rd of May 1939 | EVENT | The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. |
| 3rd of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia. |
| 3rd of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lubeck Bay. |
| 3rd of May 1947 | EVENT | New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect. |
| 3rd of May 1948 | EVENT | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable. |
| 3rd of May 1951 | EVENT | London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain |
| 3rd of May 1951 | EVENT | The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. |
| 3rd of May 1951 | EVENT | The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time. |
| 3rd of May 1952 | EVENT | Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole. |
| 3rd of May 1957 | EVENT | Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California. |
| 3rd of May 1960 | EVENT | The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time. |
| 3rd of May 1960 | EVENT | The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
| 3rd of May 1963 | EVENT | The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement. |
| 3rd of May 1973 | EVENT | The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building. |
| 3rd of May 1978 | EVENT | The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States. |
| 3rd of May 1986 | EVENT | Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. |
| 3rd of May 1987 | EVENT | A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega. |
| 3rd of May 1999 | EVENT | The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph. |
| 3rd of May 2000 | EVENT | The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. |
| 3rd of May 2001 | EVENT | The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. |
| 3rd of May 2002 | EVENT | A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight. |
| 3rd of May 2003 | EVENT | New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses. |
| 3rd of May 2006 | EVENT | Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors. |
| 3rd of May 2006 | EVENT | Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia. |
| 3rd of May 0612 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641) |
| 3rd of May 1415 | BIRTHDAY | Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495) |
| 3rd of May 1428 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495) |
| 3rd of May 1446 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503) |
| 3rd of May 1469 | BIRTHDAY | Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527) |
| 3rd of May 1662 | BIRTHDAY | Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann, German architect (d. 1736) |
| 3rd of May 1695 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771) |
| 3rd of May 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician (d. 1765) |
| 3rd of May 1761 | BIRTHDAY | August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819) |
| 3rd of May 1764 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (d. 1794) |
| 3rd of May 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838) |
| 3rd of May 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Adams George Archibald, Canadian Father of the Confederation (d. 1892) |
| 3rd of May 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872) |
| 3rd of May 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913) |
| 3rd of May 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Richard D'Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (d. 1901) |
| 3rd of May 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob August Riis, American journalist (d. 1914) |
| 3rd of May 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Bernhard von Bulow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929) |
| 3rd of May 1857 | BIRTHDAY | George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933) |
| 3rd of May 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Adams, American author (d. 1935) |
| 3rd of May 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940) |
| 3rd of May 1860 | BIRTHDAY | John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936) |
| 3rd of May 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937) |
| 3rd of May 1867 | BIRTHDAY | J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944) |
| 3rd of May 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948) |
| 3rd of May 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945) |
| 3rd of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954) |
| 3rd of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934) |
| 3rd of May 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925) |
| 3rd of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (d. 1950) |
| 3rd of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Dupre, French organist and composer (d. 1971) |
| 3rd of May 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954) |
| 3rd of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981) |
| 3rd of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969) |
| 3rd of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) |
| 3rd of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Viner, Canadian economist (d. 1970) |
| 3rd of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975) |
| 3rd of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987) |
| 3rd of May 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of May 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Flying ace (d. 1917) |
| 3rd of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978) |
| 3rd of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Septima Poinsette Clark, American educator and civil rights activist (d. 1987) |
| 3rd of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Cervi, Italian actor (d. 1974) |
| 3rd of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |
| 3rd of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977) |
| 3rd of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988) |
| 3rd of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1975) |
| 3rd of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1987) |
| 3rd of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Young, American entertainer (d. 2011) |
| 3rd of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer |
| 3rd of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980) |
| 3rd of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | William Inge, American playwright (d. 1973) |
| 3rd of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Comden, American lyricist (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Bates, English former footballer (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Seeger, American singer |
| 3rd of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Ames, American singer (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Hall, American politician |
| 3rd of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor |
| 3rd of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Tyrrell, English founder of eponymous F1 racing team (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Seguy, French sociologist of religions (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Osborne, American film historian |
| 3rd of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006) |
| 3rd of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Cord, American actor |
| 3rd of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 3rd of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Cooper, English boxer (d. 2011) |
| 3rd of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter |
| 3rd of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons) |
| 3rd of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Popeil, American inventor |
| 3rd of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Nelida Pinon, Brazilian writer |
| 3rd of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian Islamist terrorist |
| 3rd of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player |
| 3rd of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician |
| 3rd of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager |
| 3rd of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | David Koch, American businessman, politician |
| 3rd of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Edward "Monk" Malloy, American university president |
| 3rd of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | C.L. Otter, American politician, governor of Idaho |
| 3rd of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Caslavska, Czech gymnast |
| 3rd of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Marash, American journalist |
| 3rd of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Risch, American politician, junior senator of Idaho |
| 3rd of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Davey Lopes, American baseball player and coach |
| 3rd of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Chow, American football coach |
| 3rd of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Gumbel, American broadcaster |
| 3rd of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player |
| 3rd of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Mulkey, American actor |
| 3rd of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Wyden, American politician, senior senator of Oregon |
| 3rd of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Hom, Chinese American chef |
| 3rd of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Hopkin, Welsh Singer |
| 3rd of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Cross, American musician |
| 3rd of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer |
| 3rd of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Caitlin Clarke. American actress (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Wells, British athlete |
| 3rd of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Baldwin, American political figure |
| 3rd of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement) |
| 3rd of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Bellemare, French Canadian lawyer and politician |
| 3rd of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Langway, American ice hockey player |
| 3rd of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sandi Toksvig, Danish born writer and broadcaster |
| 3rd of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Kilner, American actor |
| 3rd of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Susanna Kwan, Hong Kong singer |
| 3rd of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | David Ball, English musician (Soft Cell) |
| 3rd of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Elton, British comedian and author |
| 3rd of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Uma Bharati, Indian politician |
| 3rd of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Steel, American actress |
| 3rd of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | David Vitter, American politician, junior senator of Louisiana |
| 3rd of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Murray, American cartoonist |
| 3rd of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Steve McClaren, English football manager |
| 3rd of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder |
| 3rd of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player |
| 3rd of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Reeves, British strongman |
| 3rd of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian |
| 3rd of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | John Jensen, Danish footballer |
| 3rd of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Garcia, Colombian-American fashion expert and television personality |
| 3rd of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian self-made businessman |
| 3rd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Abbay, American actor |
| 3rd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer |
| 3rd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor |
| 3rd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player |
| 3rd of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Dietrich, German politician |
| 3rd of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Olbrich, German guitarist and composer (Blind Guardian) |
| 3rd of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Minor, American singer |
| 3rd of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Daryl F. Mallett, American writer/editor |
| 3rd of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer |
| 3rd of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Dash, American label executive |
| 3rd of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva) |
| 3rd of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shonie Carter, American MMA fighter |
| 3rd of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Suzi Suzuki, former Japanese adult actress |
| 3rd of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rea Garvey, Irish musician |
| 3rd of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Martin, American musician |
| 3rd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Everitt, Australian football player |
| 3rd of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan |
| 3rd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Geist, American television personality |
| 3rd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Hendricks, American actress |
| 3rd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Valentino Lanus, Mexican actor |
| 3rd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dule Hill, American actor |
| 3rd of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist |
| 3rd of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Scott, Australian rules footballer and coach |
| 3rd of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player |
| 3rd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Dempster, American baseball player |
| 3rd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tyronn Lue, American basketball player |
| 3rd of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mashima Hiro, Japanese Mangaka of Rave Master and Fairy Tail |
| 3rd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Banks, American vocalist (Interpol) |
| 3rd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Tynes, American football player |
| 3rd of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Autumn Phillips, member of the British royal family |
| 3rd of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Mack, American professional wrestler |
| 3rd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Zuzana Ondraskova, Czech tennis player |
| 3rd of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef) |
| 3rd of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | U;Nee, South Korean singer and actress (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Farrah Franklin, American singer (former member of Destiny's Child) |
| 3rd of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-born American football player |
| 3rd of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer |
| 3rd of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Addai, American football player |
| 3rd of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marton Fulop, Hungarian footballer |
| 3rd of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer |
| 3rd of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Cheryl Burke, American dancer |
| 3rd of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lina Grincikaite, Lithuanian sprinter |
| 3rd of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Miranda Chartrand, Canadian singer |
| 3rd of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Levi Johnston, American actor and model; former fiance of Bristol Palin |
| 3rd of May 1152 | DEATH | Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (Born 1105) |
| 3rd of May 1160 | DEATH | Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (Born c. 1100) |
| 3rd of May 1270 | DEATH | King Bela IV of Hungary (Born 1206) |
| 3rd of May 1294 | DEATH | John I, Duke of Brabant (Born 1252) |
| 3rd of May 1481 | DEATH | Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1432) |
| 3rd of May 1598 | DEATH | Anna Guarini, Italian singer (Born 1563) |
| 3rd of May 1606 | DEATH | Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (Born 1555) |
| 3rd of May 1616 | DEATH | William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (Born 1564) (his death is commonly accepted to be on April 23, according to the Julian calendar) |
| 3rd of May 1622 | DEATH | Pedro Paez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (Born 1564) |
| 3rd of May 1679 | DEATH | James Sharp, Scottish archbishop (Born 1613) |
| 3rd of May 1693 | DEATH | Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (Born 1607) |
| 3rd of May 1704 | DEATH | Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (Born 1644) |
| 3rd of May 1724 | DEATH | John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (Born 1662) |
| 3rd of May 1750 | DEATH | John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (Born 1680) |
| 3rd of May 1752 | DEATH | Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (Born c.1692) |
| 3rd of May 1758 | DEATH | Pope Benedict XIV (Born 1675) |
| 3rd of May 1763 | DEATH | George Psalmanazar, British impostor (Born 1679) |
| 3rd of May 1764 | DEATH | Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (Born 1712) |
| 3rd of May 1779 | DEATH | John Winthrop, American astronomer (Born 1714) |
| 3rd of May 1793 | DEATH | Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian (Born 1720) |
| 3rd of May 1839 | DEATH | Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (Born 1771) |
| 3rd of May 1856 | DEATH | Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (Born 1803) |
| 3rd of May 1916 | DEATH | Leaders of the Easter Rising Tom Clarke, Irish Nationalist, Leader and Organiser of the Easter Rising (Born 1858) Thomas MacDonagh, Irish Nationalist and Leader of the Easter Rising (b. 1878) Patrick Pearse, Irish Nationalist and Leader of the Easter Rising (b. 1879) |
| 3rd of May 1918 | DEATH | Charlie Soong, Christian missionary |
| 3rd of May 1921 | DEATH | Theodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (Born 1883) |
| 3rd of May 1942 | DEATH | Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (Born 1873) |
| 3rd of May 1958 | DEATH | Frank Foster, English cricketer (Born 1889) |
| 3rd of May 1969 | DEATH | Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (Born 1897) |
| 3rd of May 1972 | DEATH | Bruce Cabot, American film actor (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of May 1972 | DEATH | Leslie Harvey, Scottish guitar player for Stone the Crows (Born1944) |
| 3rd of May 1978 | DEATH | Bill Downs, American broadcast journalist (Born 1914) |
| 3rd of May 1987 | DEATH | Dalida, French singer (Born 1933) |
| 3rd of May 1988 | DEATH | Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (Born 1908) |
| 3rd of May 1989 | DEATH | Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual (Born 1926) |
| 3rd of May 1989 | DEATH | Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (Born 1906) |
| 3rd of May 1991 | DEATH | Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born writer (Born 1933) |
| 3rd of May 1991 | DEATH | Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (Born 1907) |
| 3rd of May 1992 | DEATH | George Murphy, American dancer, actor and politician (Born 1902) |
| 3rd of May 1996 | DEATH | Alex Kellner, American baseball player (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of May 1996 | DEATH | Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of May 1996 | DEATH | Jack Weston, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of May 1997 | DEATH | Sebastien Enjolras, French racing driver (Born 1976) |
| 3rd of May 1997 | DEATH | Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of May 1999 | DEATH | Joe Adcock, American baseball player (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of May 1999 | DEATH | Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1967) |
| 3rd of May 1999 | DEATH | Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (Born 1920) |
| 3rd of May 2000 | DEATH | Julia Bathory, Hungarian glass-designer (Born 1901) |
| 3rd of May 2000 | DEATH | John Joseph O'Connor, Cardinal Archbishop of New York (Born 1920) |
| 3rd of May 2001 | DEATH | Billy Higgins, American drummer (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of May 2002 | DEATH | Barbara Castle, British politician (Born 1910) |
| 3rd of May 2002 | DEATH | Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of May 2003 | DEATH | Suzy Parker, American actress (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of May 2004 | DEATH | Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of May 2004 | DEATH | Anthony Ainley, British actor (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of May 2004 | DEATH | Ken Downing, British racing driver (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of May 2006 | DEATH | Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (Born 1949) |
| 3rd of May 2006 | DEATH | Earl Woods, athlete and father of Tiger Woods (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of May 2006 | DEATH | Karel Appel, Dutch painter (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of May 2007 | DEATH | Wally Schirra, American astronaut (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of May 2007 | DEATH | Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of May 2007 | DEATH | Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of May 2008 | DEATH | Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Prime Minister (Born 1926) |
| 3rd of May 2009 | DEATH | Ton Lutz, Dutch actor (Born 1919) |
| 3rd of May 2009 | DEATH | Ram Shewalkar, Indian Marathi writer (Born1931) |
| 3rd of May 2010 | DEATH | Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (Born1923) |
| 3rd of May 2010 | DEATH | Roy Carrier, American Zydeco musician (Born 1947) |
| 3rd of May 2011 | DEATH | Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of May 2011 | DEATH | Jackie Cooper, American actor (Born 1922) |
| 3rd of May 2011 | DEATH | Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer (Born 1936) |