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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of October 1283 | EVENT | Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered. |
| 3rd of October 1574 | EVENT | The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen. |
| 3rd of October 1683 | EVENT | The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu. |
| 3rd of October 1712 | EVENT | The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. |
| 3rd of October 1739 | EVENT | The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736 : 1739. |
| 3rd of October 1778 | EVENT | British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska. |
| 3rd of October 1795 | EVENT | General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government. |
| 3rd of October 1835 | EVENT | The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany. |
| 3rd of October 1849 | EVENT | American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. |
| 3rd of October 1863 | EVENT | The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866. |
| 3rd of October 1873 | EVENT | Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War. |
| 3rd of October 1908 | EVENT | The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna. |
| 3rd of October 1918 | EVENT | King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. |
| 3rd of October 1929 | EVENT | The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs". |
| 3rd of October 1932 | EVENT | Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 3rd of October 1935 | EVENT | Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono. |
| 3rd of October 1942 | EVENT | Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemunde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space. |
| 3rd of October 1950 | EVENT | Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins. |
| 3rd of October 1951 | EVENT | The "Shot Heard 'Round the World", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games. |
| 3rd of October 1952 | EVENT | The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon. |
| 3rd of October 1955 | EVENT | The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC. |
| 3rd of October 1957 | EVENT | Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene. |
| 3rd of October 1962 | EVENT | Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. |
| 3rd of October 1964 | EVENT | First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. |
| 3rd of October 1981 | EVENT | The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. |
| 3rd of October 1985 | EVENT | The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J) |
| 3rd of October 1986 | EVENT | TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened. |
| 3rd of October 1990 | EVENT | Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day. |
| 3rd of October 1993 | EVENT | Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting. |
| 3rd of October 1995 | EVENT | O J Simpson acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. |
| 3rd of October 2003 | EVENT | Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier. |
| 3rd of October 2008 | EVENT | The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush. |
| 3rd of October 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Lallemant, French-born Jesuit missionary (North American Martyrs) (d. 1649) |
| 3rd of October 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781) |
| 3rd of October 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796) |
| 3rd of October 1790 | BIRTHDAY | John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866) |
| 3rd of October 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870) |
| 3rd of October 1800 | BIRTHDAY | George Bancroft, American historian and 17th Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891) |
| 3rd of October 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869) |
| 3rd of October 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Townsend Harris, the 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878) |
| 3rd of October 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897) |
| 3rd of October 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Avellaneda, Argentine president (d. 1885) |
| 3rd of October 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929) |
| 3rd of October 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924) |
| 3rd of October 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902) |
| 3rd of October 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935) |
| 3rd of October 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942) |
| 3rd of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938) |
| 3rd of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974) |
| 3rd of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Langley Collyer, hoarder (d. 1947) |
| 3rd of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914) |
| 3rd of October 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938) |
| 3rd of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982) |
| 3rd of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976) |
| 3rd of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (d. 1925) |
| 3rd of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969) |
| 3rd of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987) |
| 3rd of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982) |
| 3rd of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Leo McCarey, American film director and screenwriter (d. 1969) |
| 3rd of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Clayton Wolfe, American writer (d. 1938) |
| 3rd of October 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Gremillon, French film director (d. 1959) |
| 3rd of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 (d. 1998) |
| 3rd of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Burke, Lyricist (d.1964) |
| 3rd of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995) |
| 3rd of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | James M. Buchanan, American Nobel Prize-winning economist |
| 3rd of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004) |
| 3rd of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter |
| 3rd of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gore Vidal, American author |
| 3rd of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986) |
| 3rd of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender |
| 3rd of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player |
| 3rd of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Koo Nimo, Ghanaian musician |
| 3rd of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Duke, American astronaut |
| 3rd of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Cochran, American singer and guitarist (d. 1960) |
| 3rd of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer |
| 3rd of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Obey, American politician |
| 3rd of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila Fearn, English actress |
| 3rd of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter |
| 3rd of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea de Adamich, Italian Formula One driver and TV commentator |
| 3rd of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Bingaman, Democratic U.S. Senator of New Mexico |
| 3rd of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician |
| 3rd of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Horn, German-American magician |
| 3rd of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Brown, English footballer |
| 3rd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsey Buckingham, American guitarist and singer (Fleetwood Mac) |
| 3rd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | J. P. Dutta, Indian Bollywood film director |
| 3rd of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Hensley, American actress |
| 3rd of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Winfield, American baseball player |
| 3rd of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Al Sharpton, American Baptist minister |
| 3rd of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues musician (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player |
| 3rd of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Hart Bochner, Canadian film actor/director |
| 3rd of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Westwood, Pimp My Ride UK presenter and DJ |
| 3rd of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer (La La La Human Steps) |
| 3rd of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Couples, American golfer |
| 3rd of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Wagner, American actor and singer |
| 3rd of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Lawrence (actor), English actor |
| 3rd of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Stephens, first British woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest |
| 3rd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Lee, American Drummer |
| 3rd of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Owen, British actor |
| 3rd of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player |
| 3rd of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player |
| 3rd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Liefeld, American comic book illustrator |
| 3rd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Crichton, English footballer |
| 3rd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Foster, American basketball player |
| 3rd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Gwen Stefani, American musician & actress |
| 3rd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc~en~Ciel) |
| 3rd of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Wil Cordero, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 3rd of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys) |
| 3rd of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor |
| 3rd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Keiko Agena, Japanese-American actress |
| 3rd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Angelica Gavaldon, Mexican tennis player |
| 3rd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Neve Campbell, Canadian actress |
| 3rd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Headey, British actress |
| 3rd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 3rd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater |
| 3rd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Talib Kweli, Rap Artist |
| 3rd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | India Arie, American singer |
| 3rd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Li, British musician (DragonForce) |
| 3rd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Seann William Scott, American actor |
| 3rd of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Tognozzi, Italian footballer |
| 3rd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Asamoah, German footballer |
| 3rd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Clement, English footballer |
| 3rd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer |
| 3rd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shannyn Sossamon, American actress, dancer and musician |
| 3rd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters) |
| 3rd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Alban, Ecuadorian actor |
| 3rd of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | John Morrison, American pro wrestler, WWE |
| 3rd of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian hockey player |
| 3rd of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer (The Script) |
| 3rd of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Anquan Boldin, American football player (Baltimore Ravens) |
| 3rd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Gabel, American actor |
| 3rd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Swedish footballer |
| 3rd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress |
| 3rd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Coid, English footballer |
| 3rd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer |
| 3rd of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Erik von Detten, American actor |
| 3rd of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Thiago Alves, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 3rd of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer |
| 3rd of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor |
| 3rd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Marquette, American film and television actor |
| 3rd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, American singer |
| 3rd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Le Tallec, French footballer |
| 3rd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Gervais, French hockey defenceman |
| 3rd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Yoon Eun-Hye, South Korean actress |
| 3rd of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Lee, American basketball player |
| 3rd of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe |
| 3rd of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Montana, American football player |
| 3rd of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Rhian Ramos, Filipino actress |
| 3rd of October 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Adair Tishler, American actress |
| 3rd of October 1226 | DEATH | Saint Francis of Assisi (Born 1181) |
| 3rd of October 1283 | DEATH | David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (Born 1238) |
| 3rd of October 1369 | DEATH | Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (Born 1318) |
| 3rd of October 1568 | DEATH | Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (Born 1545) |
| 3rd of October 1596 | DEATH | Florent Chrestien, French writer (Born 1541) |
| 3rd of October 1611 | DEATH | Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (Born 1554) |
| 3rd of October 1629 | DEATH | Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (Born 1570) |
| 3rd of October 1649 | DEATH | Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (Born 1576) |
| 3rd of October 1653 | DEATH | Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (Born 1612) |
| 3rd of October 1656 | DEATH | Myles Standish, English-born soldier |
| 3rd of October 1690 | DEATH | Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (Born 1648) |
| 3rd of October 1701 | DEATH | Joseph Williamson, English politician (Born 1633) |
| 3rd of October 1801 | DEATH | Philippe Henri, marquis de Segur, Marshal of France (Born 1724) |
| 3rd of October 1833 | DEATH | Francois, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (Born 1754) |
| 3rd of October 1838 | DEATH | Black Hawk, Sauk-American tribal leader (Born 1767) |
| 3rd of October 1860 | DEATH | Rembrandt Peale, American portrait artist, renowned for portraits of Washington and Jefferson (Born 1778) |
| 3rd of October 1867 | DEATH | Elias Howe, American inventor (Born 1819) |
| 3rd of October 1873 | DEATH | Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader |
| 3rd of October 1877 | DEATH | James Roosevelt Bayley, American religious leader (Born 1814) |
| 3rd of October 1881 | DEATH | Orson Pratt, American religious leader (Born 1811) |
| 3rd of October 1890 | DEATH | Joseph Hergenrother, German historian (Born 1824) |
| 3rd of October 1891 | DEATH | Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (Born 1842) |
| 3rd of October 1896 | DEATH | William Morris, English writer & poet (Born 1834) |
| 3rd of October 1929 | DEATH | Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1878) |
| 3rd of October 1929 | DEATH | Jeanne Eagels, American actress (Born 1894) |
| 3rd of October 1931 | DEATH | Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (Born 1865) |
| 3rd of October 1936 | DEATH | John Heisman, American football coach (Born 1869) |
| 3rd of October 1953 | DEATH | Arnold Bax, English composer (Born 1883) |
| 3rd of October 1959 | DEATH | Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (Born 1892) |
| 3rd of October 1965 | DEATH | Zachary Scott, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 3rd of October 1967 | DEATH | Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Born 1895) |
| 3rd of October 1967 | DEATH | Woody Guthrie, American musician (Born 1912) |
| 3rd of October 1969 | DEATH | Skip James, American blues musician (Born 1902) |
| 3rd of October 1986 | DEATH | Vince DiMaggio, American baseball player (Born 1912) |
| 3rd of October 1987 | DEATH | Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (Born 1947) |
| 3rd of October 1987 | DEATH | Jean Anouilh, French writer (Born 1910) |
| 3rd of October 1988 | DEATH | Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian politician (Born 1915) |
| 3rd of October 1990 | DEATH | Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman and husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (Born 1960) |
| 3rd of October 1993 | DEATH | Gary Gordon, American Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1960) |
| 3rd of October 1993 | DEATH | Randy Shughart, American Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1958) |
| 3rd of October 1998 | DEATH | Roddy McDowall, English actor (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of October 1999 | DEATH | Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of October 2000 | DEATH | Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (Born 1947) |
| 3rd of October 2000 | DEATH | John Grant, British politician (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of October 2001 | DEATH | Costas Hajihristos, Greek actor (Born 1921) |
| 3rd of October 2002 | DEATH | Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (Born 1943) |
| 3rd of October 2002 | DEATH | Robert Krausz, American stock market advisor and investor (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of October 2003 | DEATH | Florence Stanley, American actress (Born 1924) |
| 3rd of October 2003 | DEATH | William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (Born 1907) |
| 3rd of October 2004 | DEATH | John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (Born 1960) |
| 3rd of October 2004 | DEATH | Janet Leigh, American actress (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of October 2005 | DEATH | Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (Born 1929) |
| 3rd of October 2006 | DEATH | Alberto Ramento, Filipino bishop (Born 1937) |
| 3rd of October 2006 | DEATH | John Crank, British mathematician (Born 1916) |
| 3rd of October 2006 | DEATH | Peter Norman, Australian track star (Born 1942) |
| 3rd of October 2007 | DEATH | M. N. Vijayan, Indian writer, orator, and academic (Born 1930) |
| 3rd of October 2008 | DEATH | Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (Born 1941) |
| 3rd of October 2008 | DEATH | Johnny J, American record producer and songwriter (Born 1969) |
| 3rd of October 2009 | DEATH | Queen Fatima of Libya (Born 1918) |
| 3rd of October 2010 | DEATH | Ben Mondor, Canadian-born American baseball executive (Born 1925) |