October 3 in History
October 3 is the birthday of Noah Schnapp (2004) and the anniversary of the death of Patricia Routledge (2025). Below are famous birthdays, deaths, events for October 3, plus editor's picks and genealogy records.
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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester was born in 1390, while Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman politician died in 42 BC.
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Famous people born on October 3
Famous people who died on October 3
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What happened on October 3
- 2024
Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
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"Thick of It", a single by British Internet personality and rapper KSI featuring Trippie Redd, is released.
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Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
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Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
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Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
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At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
Wikipedia source (opens in a new tab) - 2008
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
Wikipedia source (opens in a new tab) - 1995
O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Wikipedia source (opens in a new tab) - 1993
An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
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Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Wikipedia source (opens in a new tab) - 1990
The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
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A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
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TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
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Editor's picks
Born on October 3
- 1390 — Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (died 1447)
- 1458 — Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (died 1484)
- 1554 — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (died 1628)
Died on October 3
- 42 BC — Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman politician (born 85 BC)
- 723 — Elias I of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
- 818 — Ermengarde, queen of the Franks
Source: Wikipedia historical listings for October 3
Quick answers
Who was born on October 3? Noah Schnapp (2004), Anton Lundell (2001), Max Plath (2001).
Who died on October 3? Patricia Routledge (2025), Michel Blanc (2024), Pierre Christin (2024).
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