On this day | May 3rd

On this day: May 3rd

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752 Mayan king Yaxun Bʼalam IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.

1481 The 1481 Rhodes earthquake strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.

1491 Kingdom of Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese Empire missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I of Kongo.

1568 Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force burns the San Mateo fort and massacres hundreds of Spaniards.

1616 Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war.

1715 A solar eclipse of May 3, 1715 is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy.

1791 The Constitution of May 3, 1791 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after United States Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a Mayor–council government form of government.

1808 Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.

1808 Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who Dos de Mayo Uprising on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío (hill) hill.

1815 Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Kingdom of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.

1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.

1837 The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.

1848 The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a Tumulus on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.

1849 The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49.

1855 American adventurer William Walker (filibuster) departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.

1901 The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.

1913 ''Raja Harishchandra'', the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Cinema of India.

1920 A 1920 Georgian coup attempt fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

1921 Partition of Ireland under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland (1921–22).

1921 West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.

1928 The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.

1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

1942 World War II: Empire of Japan naval troops Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942) Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.

1945 World War II: Sinking of the prison ships ''SS Cap Arcona (1927)'', ''SS Thielbek (1940)'' and ''SS Deutschland (1923)'' by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.

1947 New post-war Constitution of Japan goes into effect.

1948 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in ''Shelley v. Kraemer'' that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.

1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.

1951 The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.

1952 Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.

1952 The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.

1953 Two men are rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. Amateur photographer Virginia Schau photographs "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the first and only winning submission for the Pulitzer Prize for Photography to have been taken by a woman.

1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.

1963 The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and Birmingham campaign # Fire hoses and police dogs to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement.

1968 Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas.

1971 Erich Honecker becomes Leadership of East Germany # Leaders of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), remaining in power until 1989.

1978 The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam (electronic)") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

1979 Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom 1979 United Kingdom general election. The following day, she becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1986 Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.

1987 A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.

1999 The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). In meteorology, the term “May 3” is synonymous with the F5 tornado.

1999 Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War.

2000 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a Global Positioning System posted on Usenet.

2001 The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.

2006 Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.

2007 The three-year-old British girl Disappearance of Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".

2015 Two gunmen Curtis Culwell Center attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

2016 Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.

2023 Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.

490 K'an Joy Chitam I, ruler of Palenque (d. 565)

612 Constantine III (Byzantine emperor), Byzantine emperor (d. 641)

1238 Emilia Bicchieri, Italian saint (d. 1314)

1276 Louis, Count of Évreux, son of King Philip III of France (d. 1319)

1415 Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (d. 1495)

1428 Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal (d. 1495)

1446 Margaret of York (d. 1503)

1461 Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal (d. 1521)

1469 Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and philosopher (d. 1527)

1479 Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1552)

1481 Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (d. 1534)

1536 Stephan Praetorius, German theologian (d. 1603)

1632 Catherine of St. Augustine, French-Canadian nurse and candidate for sainthood, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (d. 1668)

1662 Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect, designed the Pillnitz Castle (d. 1736)

1678 Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (d. 1747)

1695 Henri Pitot, French physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube (d. 1771)

1729 Florian Leopold Gassmann, Czech composer (d. 1774)

1761 August von Kotzebue, German playwright and author (d. 1819)

1764 Princess Élisabeth of France (d. 1794)

1768 Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and businessman (d. 1838)

1783 José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (d. 1858)

1814 Adams George Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1892)

1826 Charles XV of Sweden (d. 1872)

1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, English talent agent and composer (d. 1901)

1849 Jacob Riis, Danish-American journalist and photographer (d. 1914)

1849 Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (German Reich) (d. 1929)

1854 George Gore, American baseball player and manager (d. 1933)

1859 August Herrmann, American executive in Major League Baseball (d.1931)

1860 Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1940)

1867 Andy Bowen, American boxer (d. 1894)

1867 J. T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)

1870 Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)

1871 Emmett Dalton, American criminal (d. 1937)

1873 Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1945)

1874 François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty (d. 1934)

1874 Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (d. 1954)

1877 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author (d. 1925)

1879 Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founded Qantas (d. 1950)

1886 Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)

1887 Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)

1889 Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)

1889 Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (d. 1972)

1891 Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic (d. 1969)

1891 Eppa Rixey, American baseball pitcher (d. 1963)

1892 George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1975)

1892 Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic (d. 1970)

1893 Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (d. 1975)

1895 Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist (d. 1987)

1896 Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (d. 1917)

1896 V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Minister of Defence (India) (d. 1974)

1896 Dodie Smith, English author and playwright (d. 1990)

1897 William Joseph Browne, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Solicitor General of Canada (d. 1989)

1898 Septima Poinsette Clark, American educator and activist (d. 1987)

1898 Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)

1902 Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and poet, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1984)

1903 Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)

1905 Red Ruffing, American baseball pitcher and coach (d. 1986)

1906 Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987)

1906 Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist and author (d. 1975)

1910 Norman Corwin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)

1912 Virgil Fox, American organist and composer (d. 1980)

1912 May Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1995)

1913 William Inge, American playwright and novelist (d. 1973)

1914 Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French journalist, author, and poet (d. 2018))

1915 Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded Stampede Wrestling (d. 2003)

1917 Betty Comden, American screenwriter and librettist (d. 2006)

1917 George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (d. 2016)

1917 Kiro Gligorov, Macedonian politician and first president of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2012)

1918 Ted Bates (footballer), English footballer and manager (d. 2003)

1919 Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (d. 2014)

1920 John Lewis (pianist), American pianist and composer (d. 2001)

1921 Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)

1922 Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (d. 2000)

1923 Ralph Hall, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 2019)

1924 Yehuda Amichai, German-Israeli author and poet (d. 2000)

1924 Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver, founded Tyrrell Racing (d. 2001)

1928 Dave Dudley, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)

1928 Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)

1930 Juan Gelman, Argentinian poet and author (d. 2014)

1932 Robert Osborne, American actor and historian (d. 2017)

1933 James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)

1933 Steven Weinberg, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 2021)

1934 Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster (d. 2011)

1934 Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)

1934 Frankie Valli, American singer and actor

1935 Ron Popeil, American businessman, founded the Ronco (d. 2021)

1938 Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2017)

1940 David Koch, American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist (d. 2019)

1940 Clemens Westerhof, Dutch footballer and manager

1942 Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast and coach (d. 2016)

1942 Butch Otter, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho

1943 Jim Risch, American lawyer and politician, 31st Governor of Idaho

1943 Vicente Saldivar, Mexican boxer (d. 1985)

1945 Davey Lopes, American baseball player, coach, and manager

1946 Norm Chow, American football player and coach

1946 Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster

1947 Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)

1948 Denis Cosgrove, British-American academic and geographer (d. 2008)

1949 Liam Donaldson, English physician and academic

1949 Ron Wyden, American academic and politician

1950 Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer-songwriter

1951 Christopher Cross, American singer-songwriter and producer

1951 Ashok Gehlot, Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan

1951 Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian author and publicist

1952 Chuck Baldwin, American pastor and politician

1952 Joseph W. Tobin, American cardinal

1954 Angela Bofill, American singer-songwriter

1955 Stephen D. M. Brown, British geneticist

1955 David Hookes, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2004)

1957 Rod Langway, Taiwanese-American ice hockey player and coach

1958 Bill Sienkiewicz, American author and illustrator

1958 Sandi Toksvig, Danish-English comedian, writer, and broadcaster

1959 Uma Bharti, Indian activist and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh

1959 Ben Elton, English actor, director, and screenwriter

1960 Kathy Smallwood-Cook, English sprinter and educator

1961 Steve McClaren, English footballer and manager

1961 David Vitter, American lawyer and politician

1961 Leyla Zana, Kurdish activist and politician

1963 Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player and coach

1963 Mona Siddiqui, Pakistani-Scottish journalist and academic

1964 Sterling Campbell, American drummer and songwriter

1964 Ron Hextall, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager

1965 Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian patriarch

1965 Mark Cousins (film critic), Northern Irish director, writer, cinematographer

1965 John Jensen, Danish footballer and coach

1965 Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian businessman

1967 Daniel Anderson (rugby league), Australian rugby league coach and manager

1967 Kenny Hotz, Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian

1971 Douglas Carswell, British politician, the first elected MP for the UK Independence Party

1972 Steve Barclay, English lawyer and politician

1973 Jamie Baulch, Welsh sprinter and television host

1975 Willie Geist, American television journalist and host

1975 Christina Hendricks, American actress and model

1975 Sanath Nishantha, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2024)

1976 Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player

1976 Brad Scott (Australian footballer), Australian footballer and coach

1976 Chris Scott (Australian footballer), Australian footballer and coach

1977 Eric Church, American country music singer-songwriter

1977 Ryan Dempster, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster

1977 Tyronn Lue, American basketball player and coach

1977 Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (d. 2017)

1977 Ben Olsen, American soccer player and coach

1978 Paul Banks (musician, born 1978), English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1978 Lawrence Tynes, American football player

1982 Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-American football player

1983 Joseph Addai, American football player

1983 Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer

1983 Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)

1985 Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentinian footballer

1986 Homer Bailey, American baseball player

1986 Pom Klementieff, French actress

1987 Damla Sönmez, Turkish actress

1988 Ben Revere, American baseball player

1988 Paddy Holohan, Irish mixed martial artist

1989 Jesse Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player

1989 Katinka Hosszú, Hungarian swimmer

1990 Harvey Guillén, American actor

1990 Brooks Koepka, American golfer

1990 James Pattinson, Australian cricketer

1991 Samuel Seo, South Korean musician

1995 Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (d. 2016)

1995 Anwar El Ghazi, Dutch footballer

1995 Austin Meadows, American baseball player

1996 Mary Cain (athlete), American runner

1996 Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer

1996 Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian-American basketball player

1996 Noah Munck, American actor

1997 Desiigner, American rapper

1997 Dwayne Haskins, American football player (d. 2022)

1999 Tom Hartley (cricketer), English cricketer

2001 Rachel Zegler, American actress and singer

2003 Florian Wirtz, German footballer

678 Princess Tōchi, Japanese princess

738 Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, Mayan ruler (''ajaw'')

1152 Matilda of Boulogne (b. 1105)

1270 Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)

1294 John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252)

1330 Alexios II of Trebizond, Empire of Trebizond (b. 1282)

1410 Antipope Alexander V

1481 Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan (b. 1432)

1501 John Devereux, 9th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, English Baron (b. 1463)

1524 Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent, English peer (b. 1481)

1534 Juana de la Cruz Vazquez Gutierrez, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1481)

1589 Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528)

1606 Henry Garnet, English priest and author (b. 1555)

1621 Elizabeth Bacon (died 1621), English Tudor gentlewoman (b. 1541)

1679 James Sharp (bishop), Scottish archbishop (b. 1613)

1693 Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)

1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Czech-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1644)

1724 John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, academic, and politician (b. 1662)

1750 John Willison, Scottish minister and author (b. 1680)

1752 Samuel Ogle, English-American captain and politician, 5th List of colonial governors of Maryland (b. 1692)

1758 Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)

1763 George Psalmanazar, French-English author (b. 1679)

1764 Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1712)

1779 John Winthrop (educator), American mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1714)

1793 Martin Gerbert, German historian and theologian (b. 1720)

1839 Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)

1856 Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)

1856 Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)

1882 Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)

1910 Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)

1916 Tom Clarke (Irish republican), Irish rebel (b. 1858)

1916 Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)

1916 Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)

1918 Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)

1919 Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)

1921 Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (b. 1883)

1925 Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (b. 1841)

1932 Charles Fort, American journalist and author (b. 1874)

1935 Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)

1939 Madeleine Desroseaux, French author and poet (b. 1873)

1942 Thorvald Stauning, Danish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)

1943 Harry Miller (auto racing), American engineer (b. 1875)

1948 Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (b. 1876)

1949 Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1888)

1958 Frank Foster (cricketer), English cricketer (b. 1889)

1969 Zakir Husain (politician), Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)

1970 Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk, Turkish footballer, coach, and pilot (b. 1918)

1972 Kenneth Bailey (lawyer), Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b. 1898)

1972 Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach (b. 1883)

1972 Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904)

1978 Bill Downs, American journalist (b. 1914)

1981 Nargis, Indian actress (b. 1929)

1986 Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914)

1987 Dalida, Italian singer, actress, dancer, and model (b. 1933)

1988 Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1908)

1989 Christine Jorgensen, American transgender (b. 1926)

1991 Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1933)

1992 George Murphy, American actor, dancer, and politician (b. 1902)

1996 Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist, composer, and educator (b. 1921)

1996 Alex Kellner, American baseball player (b. 1924)

1996 Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)

1996 Keith Daniel Williams, American rapist and triple murderer (b. 1947)

1997 Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (b. 1976)

1997 Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1927)

1998 Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)

1999 Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (b. 1927)

1999 Steve Chiasson, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1967)

1999 Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (b. 1920)

2000 Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)

2000 John O'Connor (cardinal), American cardinal (b. 1920)

2002 Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, English politician, First Secretary of State (b. 1910)

2002 Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928)

2003 Suzy Parker, American model and actress (b. 1932)

2004 Ken Downing, English race car driver (b. 1917)

2004 Darrell Johnson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1928)

2006 Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (b. 1921)

2006 Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)

2006 Earl Woods, American colonel, baseball player, and author (b. 1932)

2007 Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)

2007 Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)

2007 Knock Yokoyama, Japanese politician (b. 1932)

2008 Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish engineer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1926)

2009 Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (b. 1928)

2009 Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar, Indian author and critic (b. 1931)

2010 Roy Carrier, American accordion player (b. 1947)

2010 Peter O'Donnell, English soldier and author (b. 1920)

2010 Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (b. 1923)

2011 Jackie Cooper, American actor, television director, producer and executive (b. 1922)

2011 Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer and manager (b. 1936)

2011 Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (b. 1927)

2012 Jorge Illueca, Panamanian politician, 30th President of Panama (b. 1918)

2012 Felix Werder, German-Australian composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1922)

2013 Joe Astroth, American baseball player (b. 1922)

2013 Herbert Blau, American engineer and academic (b. 1926)

2013 Cedric Brooks, Jamaican-American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1943)

2013 Keith Carter (swimmer), American swimmer and soldier (b. 1924)

2013 Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1958)

2013 David Morris Kern, American pharmacist, co-invented Orajel (b. 1909)

2013 Curtis Rouse, American football player (b. 1960)

2013 Branko Vukelić, Croatian politician, 11th Ministry of Defence (Croatia) (b. 1958)

2014 Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate (b. 1930)

2014 Francisco Icaza, Mexican painter (b. 1930)

2014 Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (b. 1934)

2015 Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)

2015 Danny Jones (rugby league), Welsh rugby player (b. 1986)

2015 Warren Smith (golfer), American golfer and coach (b. 1915)

2016 Ian Deans, Canadian politician (b. 1937)

2016 Jadranka Stojaković, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia singer-songwriter (b. 1950)

2017 Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and model (b. 1942)

2020 Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (b. 1926)

2021 Lloyd Price, American R&B vocalist (b. 1933)

Christian feast day:

- Abhai (saint) (Syriac Orthodox Church)

- Antonia and Alexander

- Juvenal of Narni

- Saint Moura (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

- Philip the Apostle and James, son of Alphaeus

- Pope Alexander I

- Sarah the Martyr (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

- The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland

- Theodosius of Kiev (Eastern Orthodox Church)

- May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Memorial Day (Japan)

May 3rd Constitution Day

Feast of the Cross # May 3-related observances:

- Fiesta de las Cruces (Spain and Hispanic America)

Sun Day

World Press Freedom Day

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/3 BBC: On This Day]

[https://www.onthisday.com/events/may/3 Historical Events on May 3]