On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
October 3 1990
Born on This Day
A$AP Rocky
Rapper & Fashion Icon · b. 1988
Days alive
730
Adair Tishler🇺🇸
American actress · b. 1996
Adrian Mariappa🇬🇧
football player · b. 1986
Days alive
1,461
Alfred Wohl
deceasedchemist · 1863–1939
Days lived
27,841
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Alicia Vikander🇸🇪
Actor · b. 1988
Days alive
730
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Anthony Le Tallec🇫🇷
French footballer (born 1984) · b. 1984
Days alive
2,191
Arkady Vorobyov🇷🇺
deceasedathlete · 1924–2012
Days lived
32,222
Ashlee Simpson🇺🇸
singer · b. 1984
Days alive
2,191
Bang Chan🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (Stray Kids) · b. 1997
Danny O'Donoghue🇮🇪
singer · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
David Painter
Anglican Archdeacon · b. 1944
Days alive
16,801
Denis Villeneuve🇨🇦
Film Director · b. 1967
Days alive
8,401
Diego Salazar🇨🇴
Colombian weightlifter · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
Eddie Cochran🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1938–1960
Days lived
7,867
Emyr Wyn Lewis🇬🇧
Welsh rugby union player · b. 1982
Days alive
2,922
Florian Keller🇩🇪
field hockey player · b. 1981
Days alive
3,287
Fred🇧🇷
Association football player · b. 1983
Days alive
2,557
Gerald Asamoah🇩🇪
German association football player · b. 1978
Days alive
4,383
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Giovanni Comisso🇮🇹
deceasedItalian writer (1895–1969) · 1895–1969
Days lived
26,773
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Gore Vidal🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer (1925–2012) · 1925–2012
Days lived
31,713
Gwen Stefani🇺🇸
American singer · b. 1969
Days alive
7,670
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Herman Li🇨🇳
British guitarist · b. 1976
Days alive
5,113
Hermann Struve
deceasedBaltic German astronomer (1854–1920) · 1854–1920
Days lived
24,054
Hermann Thimig🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1890–1982
Days lived
33,514
India.Arie🇺🇸
American singer · b. 1975
Days alive
5,479
Jakob Klatzkin
deceasedGerman philosopher · 1882–1948
Days lived
23,915
James Herriot🇬🇧
deceasedveterinary surgeon and writer (1916-1995) · 1916–1995
Days lived
28,632
John Joseph🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1962
Days alive
10,227
Kathryn D. Sullivan🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1951
Days alive
14,245
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Louis Aragon🇫🇷
deceasedwriter · 1897–1982
Days lived
31,127
Manny Martínez🇲🇽
film director · b. 1970
Days alive
7,305
Meg🇯🇵
Japanese electropop singer, born 1980 · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
Mike Johnson🇨🇦
film director · b. 1975
Days alive
5,479
Noah Schnapp
actor · b. 2004
Pierre Bonnard🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1867–1947
Days lived
28,966
Ralph Morgenstern🇩🇪
German actor and TV host · b. 1955
Days alive
12,784
Robert Grabarz🇬🇧
British high jumper · b. 1987
Days alive
1,096
Roman Malek🇵🇱
deceasedPolish priest (1951-2019) · 1951–2019
Days lived
24,894
Sergei Yesenin
deceasedRussian poet (1895–1925) · 1895–1925
Days lived
11,043
Siti Zuraina Abdul Majid🇹🇼
Malaysian historian and archaeologist · b. 1944
Days alive
16,801
Stevie Ray Vaughan🇺🇸
deceasedguitarist · 1954–1990
Days lived
13,112
Viktor Saneyev🇬🇧
deceasedathlete · 1945–2022
Days lived
27,850
Warner Oland🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1879–1938
Days lived
21,491
Wolfgang Großstück🇩🇪
deceasedGerman association football player (1932-2011) · 1932–2011
Days lived
28,729
Xiong Chaozhong🇨🇳
boxer · b. 1982
Days alive
2,922
Yohji Yamamoto🇯🇵
Japanese fashion designer (born 1943) · b. 1943
Days alive
17,167
Zlatan Ibrahimović🇸🇪
actor · b. 1981
Days alive
3,287
Died on This Day
Alastair G. W. Cameron🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian astrophysicist (1925–2005) · 1925–2005
Days lived
29,324
Alfred Neumann🇺🇸
deceasedGerman writer (1895-1952) · 1895–1952
Days lived
20,807
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Carl August Walbrodt🇳🇱
deceasedGerman chess master (1871–1902) · 1871–1902
Days lived
11,266
David C. Evans🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican computer scientist (1924-1998) · 1924–1998
Days lived
27,250
Eddie Shirras
deceasedAnglican Archdeacon · 1937–2020
Days lived
30,479
Erich Schmidt🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican archaeologist and photographer (1897-1964) · 1897–1964
Days lived
24,491
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Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer, geophysicist and seismologist (1861–1895) · 1861–1895
Days lived
12,473
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Florence R. Sabin🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1871–1953
Days lived
29,913
Franz Mack🇩🇪
deceasedGerman entrepreneur (1921–2010) · 1921–2010
Days lived
32,717
Heinz Rühmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1902–1994) · 1902–1994
Days lived
33,813
Henryk Julian Gay🇵🇱
deceasedPolish architect (1875-1936) · 1875–1936
Days lived
22,546
Hermann Krukenberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman surgeon (1863-1935) · 1863–1935
Days lived
26,401
Hermann Weil🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1868–1927
Days lived
21,563
Hiltrud Grote🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1936–2010
Days lived
26,987
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Jalal Talabani
deceasedpolitician · 1933–2017
Days lived
30,641
Mario Encarnación🇩🇴
deceasedfilm director · 1975–2005
Days lived
10,967
Matthäus Hetzenauer🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian sniper (1924–2004) · 1924–2004
Days lived
29,139
Max Wolf🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astrophotography pioneer (1863–1932) · 1863–1932
Days lived
25,306
Peer Augustinski🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1940–2014) · 1940–2014
Days lived
27,128
Peter Klein🇦🇹
deceasedmusician · 1907–1992
Days lived
31,298
Reinhard Mohn🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1921–2009
Days lived
32,238
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Richard Peter
deceasedGerman photographer (1895-1977) · 1895–1977
Days lived
30,096
Robert Kelker-Kelly🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1964–2026
Days lived
22,813
Viktor Kosenko🌍
deceasedComposer · 1896–1938
Days lived
15,300
Walter Wislicenus🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer (1859–1905) · 1859–1905
Days lived
16,768
Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1890–1942
Days lived
19,180
Wim van Heel🇳🇱
deceasedfield hockey player (1922–1972) · 1922–1972
Days lived
18,269
Woody Guthrie🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1912–1967
Days lived
20,169
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
50,313
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
38,991
José Miguel Barandiarán🇪🇸
deceasedBasque anthropologist, etnologist and archaeologist (1889–1991) · 1889–1991
Days lived
37,244
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
36,339
Walter Schenk🇩🇪
deceasedGerman military personnel · 1891–2000
Days lived
39,634
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Hal Roach🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican filmmaker (1892–1992) · 1892–1992
Days lived
36,817
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
36,002
Lang Jingshan
deceasedartist · 1892–1995
Days lived
37,506
Zośka Vieras🇱🇹
deceasedBelarusian writer and poet (1892-1991) · 1892–1991
Days lived
36,166
Lillian Gish🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress (1893–1993) · 1893–1993
Days lived
36,295
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Martha Graham🇺🇸
deceasedBallet dancer · 1894–1991
Days lived
35,388
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1894–1998) · 1894–1998
Days lived
37,799
Hermann Florstedt
deceasedmilitary person · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,302
Adolf Pokorny🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian-born dermatologist and doctor; defendant in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg (1895-?) · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,144
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
Heinrich Eberbach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1895–1992) · 1895–1992
Days lived
35,295
Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian journalist · 1896–1995
Days lived
36,188
Friedrich Hund🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1896–1997
Days lived
36,945
Lilia Skala🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian-American actress (1896-1994) · 1896–1994
Days lived
35,813
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1897–2000) · 1897–2000
Days lived
37,614
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
57,984
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Keiko🇮🇸
deceasedOrca · 1977–2003
Days lived
9,841
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
56,157
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
55,854
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
55,427
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
45,869
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
44,835
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
44,469
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
41,913
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
40,565
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
661,364
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
140,878
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
64,896
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
45,565
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
23,917
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
21,460
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
19,370
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
17,347
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
18,807
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
12,229
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
6,767
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
5,584
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
4,879
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,192
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,149
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
3,928