October 3 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 3, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#33 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 3 birthdays
Sergei Yesenin · Russian poet1895
Louis Aragon · French poet1897
Leo McCarey · American film director, screenwriter and producer1898
Thomas Wolfe · American writer1900
Charles J. Pedersen · American organic chemist1904
James M. Buchanan · American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics1919
Gore Vidal · American writer1925
Charles Duke · American engineer1935
Steve Reich · American composer1936
Chubby Checker · American rock 'n roll singer1941
Kathryn D. Sullivan · American astronaut1951
Stevie Ray Vaughan · American blues guitarist1954
Gwen Stefani · American singer1969
Seann William Scott · American actor1976
Zlatan Ibrahimović · Swedish association football player1981
Tessa Thompson · American actress1983
Ashlee Simpson · American singer and actress1984
ASAP Rocky · American rapper1988
Alicia Vikander · Swedish actress1988
Noah Schnapp · American and Canadian actor2004
On this day in history
1962Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra.
1992Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.
2003Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.
2008The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.
1957The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1963Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.
1989Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
1991Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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