June 3 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 3, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#220 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 3 birthdays
Jefferson Davis · President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 18651808
Frederick VIII of Denmark · King of Denmark from 1906 to 19121843
George V · King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 19361865
Georg von Békésy · Hungarian physicist1899
Josephine Baker · American-born French dancer, singer and actress1906
Alain Resnais · French film director1922
Tony Curtis · American actor1925
Allen Ginsberg · American poet and writer1926
Werner Arber · Swiss microbiologist and geneticist1929
Marion Zimmer Bradley · American novelist and editor1930
Raúl Castro · Former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba1931
Curtis Mayfield · American singer-songwriter1942
Suzi Quatro · American rock musician1950
Lawrence Lessig · American academic, political activist1961
Kerry King · American guitarist1964
Anderson Cooper · American journalist1967
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Emir of Qatar since 20131980
Yelena Isinbayeva · Russian female Olympic pole-vaulter1982
Rafael Nadal · Spanish tennis player1986
Mario Götze · German association football player1992
On this day in history
1781American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett rode 40 miles (64 km) to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
1937Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in France.
1979Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.
2025Prime minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned after weeks of protests.
1940Franz Rademacher, a Nazi official, proposed that the island of Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of the Jewish population of Europe.
1950Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
1965The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.
2013The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
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