March 3 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 3, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#254 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 3 birthdays
Georg Cantor · German mathematician, inventor of set theory1845
Alexander Graham Bell · Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone1847
Ragnar Frisch · Norwegian economist1895
Jean Harlow · American film actress1911
Arthur Kornberg · American biochemist1918
Ion Iliescu · President of Romania1930
Zico · Brazilian association football player and manager1953
Jackie Joyner-Kersee · American track and field athlete1962
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus · Ethiopian and politician1965
Mikhail Mishustin · Russian politician1966
Julie Bowen · American actress1970
Xavier Bettel · Luxembourgish politician1973
Katherine Waterston · British-born American actress1980
Jessica Biel · American actress1982
Karol Nawrocki · Polish politician and historian1983
Shraddha Kapoor · Indian film actress and singer1987
Antonio Rüdiger · German association football player1993
Jeremy Zucker · American singer-songwriter1996
Camila Cabello · Cuban-Mexican-American singer1997
Jayson Tatum · American basketball player1998
On this day in history
1820The U.S. Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, which balanced the admission of Missouri as a slave state with that of Maine as a free state.
1891Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming was established as the first national forest in the United States.
1913Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C., "in a spirit of protest" against the exclusion of women from American society.
1986The American heavy metal band Metallica released their third studio album, Master of Puppets, considered one of the greatest in the genre's history.
1776American Revolutionary War: Samuel Nicholas and the Continental Marines successfully landed on New Providence in the Bahamas and began a raid of Nassau, capturing the port the next day.
1933The first Nazi concentration camp was opened in Nohra to reduce overcrowding in prisons from the arrest of German Communists.
1969Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1972The British rock band Jethro Tull released Thick as a Brick, a parody concept album allegedly adapted from an eight-year-old boy's epic poem.
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