May 3 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 3, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#227 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 3 birthdays
Charles XV · King of Sweden and Norway1826
Bernhard von Bülow · German and Prussian politician1849
George Paget Thomson · English physicist1892
Golda Meir · Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 19741898
Alfred Kastler · French physicist1902
Mary Astor · American actress and author1906
Pete Seeger · American folk singer1919
Sugar Ray Robinson · American boxer1921
James Brown · American musician1933
Steven Weinberg · American theoretical physicist1933
Frankie Valli · American singer1934
David Koch · American billionaire heir and businessman1940
Nona Gaprindashvili · Soviet chess player1941
Jeffrey C. Hall · American geneticist and chronobiologist1945
Jaron Lanier · American computer scientist, musician, and author1960
Amy Ryan · American actress1968
Christina Hendricks · British-American actress1975
Rebecca Hall · English actress and filmmaker1982
Rachel Zegler · American actress2001
Florian Wirtz · German association football player2003
On this day in history
1855A group of American mercenaries led by William Walker set sail from San Francisco to conquer Nicaragua.
1939Subhas Chandra Bose formed the All India Forward Bloc, a faction within the Indian National Congress, in opposition to Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence.
1963Police in Birmingham, Alabama, used high-pressure water hoses and dogs against civil-rights protesters, bringing scrutiny on racial segregation in the southern United States.
2007Three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal; she has never been found.
1960The Off-Broadway show The Fantasticks premiered, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical, with 17,162 performances across 42 years.
1971Erich Honecker became First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the governing party of East Germany.
1999The Kargil War initiates when Indian forces detected the infiltration of Pakistani forces in Indian-administered Kargil, a city in Jammu and Kashmir.
2001The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
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