February 3 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 3, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#317 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 3 birthdays
Felix Mendelssohn · German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent1809
Horace Greeley · American politician and publisher1811
Elizabeth Blackwell · American physician, abolitionist, women's rights activist1821
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury · British politician and prime minister1830
Gertrude Stein · American author1874
Norman Rockwell · American painter and illustrator1894
Alvar Aalto · Finnish architect and designer1898
James A. Michener · American author1907
Simone Weil · French philosopher, writer, and social activist1909
Michael Cimino · American film director1939
Blythe Danner · American actress1943
Paul Auster · American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter1947
Melanie · American musician1947
Henning Mankell · Swedish writer, human rights activist and dramatist1948
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo · Roman Catholic bishop1948
Blaise Compaoré · President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 20141951
Nathan Lane · American actor1956
Joachim Löw · German footballer and manager1960
Sean Kingston · American singer1990
On this day in history
1870Reconstruction era: The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, formally prohibiting race-based disenfranchisement in the United States.
2006Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: 23 convicts, including several militants associated with al-Qaeda, escaped from a prison administered by the Political Security Organization in Sanaa, Yemen.
2010An edition of L'Homme qui marche I, a bronze sculpture by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, was sold for £65 million, setting the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.
2023A freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing hazardous materials into the surrounding area.
1984Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1986Steve Jobs purchased Pixar from Lucasfilm and launched it as an independent computer-animation studio.
1989After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1995In mission STS-63, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle.
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