August 3 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 3, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#129 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 3 birthdays
Alfred Deakin · Australian politician1856
Stanley Baldwin · British statesman1867
Haakon VII · King of Norway from 1905 to 19571872
Habib Bourguiba · Tunisian politician1903
Fahri Korutürk · 6th President of the Republic of Turkey1903
Clifford D. Simak · American writer, journalist1904
Tony Bennett · American singer1926
Jonas Savimbi · Angolan political and military leader1934
Martin Sheen · American actor1940
Martha Stewart · American businesswoman, writer, TV personality1941
John Landis · American film director, screenwriter and producer1950
John C. McGinley · American actor1959
James Hetfield · American guitarist and singer1963
Abhisit Vejjajiva · Thai politician1964
Evika Siliņa · Prime Minister of Latvia from 2023 to 20261975
Tom Brady · American football player1977
Evangeline Lilly · Canadian actress1979
Ryan Lochte · American swimmer1984
Sunil Chhetri · Indian football player1984
Karlie Kloss · American fashion model1992
On this day in history
1936African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
1997The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
2005Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
2009The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.
1940World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
1946Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
1971Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
1972The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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