Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 3 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 3
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 3
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 311 | Diocletian, Roman emperor (b. 244) |
| 649 | Birinus, French-English bishop and saint (b. 600) |
| 860 | Abbo, bishop of Auxerre |
| 937 | Siegfried, Frankish nobleman |
| 978 | Abraham, Coptic pope of Alexandria |
| 1038 | Emma of Lesum, Saxon countess and Saint |
| 1099 | Saint Osmund (b. 1065) |
| 1154 | Pope Anastasius IV (b. 1073) |
| 1265 | Odofredus, Italian lawyer and jurist |
| 1266 | Henry III the White, Duke of Wroclaw |
| 1309 | Henry III, Duke of Głogów (b. 1251/60) |
| 1322 | Maud Chaworth, Countess of Leicester (b. 1282) |
| 1532 | Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1502) |
| 1533 | Vasili III of Russia (b. 1479) |
| 1542 | Jean Tixier de Ravisi, French scholar and academic (b. 1470) |
| 1552 | Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1506) |
| 1592 | Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545) |
| 1610 | Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general and daimyō (b. 1548) |
| 1668 | William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (b. 1591) |
| 1691 | Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, British scientist (b. 1615) |
| 1706 | Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1637) |
| 1752 | Henri-Guillaume Hamal, Walloon musician and composer (b. 1685) |
| 1765 | Lord John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (b. 1713) |
| 1789 | Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714) |
| 1815 | John Carroll, American archbishop (b. 1735) |
| 1876 | Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798) |
| 1882 | Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811) |
| 1888 | Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816) |
| 1890 | Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851) |
| 1892 | Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820) |
| 1894 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1850) |
| 1904 | David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869) |
| 1910 | Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (b. 1821) |
| 1912 | Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841) |
| 1917 | Harold Garnett, English-French cricketer (b. 1879) |
| 1919 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (b. 1841) |
| 1928 | Ezra Meeker, American farmer and politician (b. 1830) |
| 1935 | Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1868) |
| 1937 | William Propsting, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1861) |
| 1941 | Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (b. 1883) |
| 1949 | Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress and educator (b. 1876) |
| 1952 | Rudolf Margolius, Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1913) |
| 1956 | Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1908) |
| 1967 | Harry Wismer, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1913) |
| 1972 | William Manuel Johnson, American bassist (b. 1872) |
| 1973 | Emile Christian, American trombonist, cornet player, and composer (b. 1895) |
| 1979 | Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player and coach (b. 1905) |
| 1980 | Oswald Mosley, English lieutenant, fascist, and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1896) |
| 1981 | Joel Rinne, Finnish actor (b. 1897) |
| 1984 | Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1919) |
| 1989 | Fernando Martín Espina, Spanish basketball player (b. 1962) |
| 1993 | Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and academic (b. 1913) |
| 1996 | Georges Duby, French historian and author (b. 1919) |
| 1998 | Pierre Hétu, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1936) |
| 1999 | John Archer, American actor (b. 1915) |
| 2000 | Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet and educator (b. 1917) |
| 2002 | Adrienne Adams, American illustrator (b. 1906) |
| 2003 | David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941) |
| 2004 | Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911) |
| 2005 | Frederick Ashworth, American admiral (b. 1912) |
| 2007 | James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948) |
| 2008 | Robert Zajonc, Polish-American psychologist and author (b. 1923) |
| 2009 | Leila Lopes, Brazilian actress and journalist (b. 1959) |
| 2010 | Abdumalik Bahori, Azerbaijani poet and author (b. 1927) |
| 2011 | Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923) |
| 2012 | Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop (b. 1938) |
| 2013 | Paul Aussaresses, French general (b. 1918) |
| 2014 | Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) |
| 2015 | Gladstone Anderson, Jamaican singer and pianist (b. 1934) |
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