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July 3

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Battle of Hattin

839 years ago

Born this day

1883

Franz Kafka

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1705th

Valentinian I

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Famous births27

AD 321 · 1705 yrs

Valentinian I

Valentinian I (Latin: Valentinianus; 321 – 17 November 375), sometimes known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375.

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RoyaltyDied aged 54

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1423 · 603 yrs

Louis XI of France

Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called the Prudent (French: le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII. Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revolt known as the Praguerie in 1440.

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RoyaltyDied aged 60

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1743 · 283 yrs

Gavrila Derzhavin

Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin (Russian: Гаврии́л (Гаври́ла) Рома́нович Держа́вин, IPA:; 14 July 1743 – 20 July 1816) was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman.

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LiteratureDied aged 73

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1854 · 172 yrs

Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček (Czech:; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original, modern musical style.

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MusicDied aged 74

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1860 · 166 yrs

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform.

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1883 · 143 yrs

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish writer and novelist from Prague.

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LiteratureWould be 143

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1906 · 120 yrs

George Sanders

George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a Russian-born British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters.

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1924 · 102 yrs

S. R. Nathan

Sellapan Ramanathan (Tamil: செல்லப்பன் ராமநாதன், IPA:; 3 July 1924 – 22 August 2016), often known as S. R. Nathan, was a Singaporean civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the sixth president of Singapore between 1999 and 2011.

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PoliticsWould be 102

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1935 · 91 yrs

Harrison Schmitt

Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, and former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He is the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.

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SpaceAge 91

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1937 · 89 yrs

Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Sträussler; 3 July 1937 – 29 November 2025) was a British playwright and screenwriter. He wrote for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays.

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LiteratureWould be 89

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1940 · 86 yrs

Jerzy Buzek

Jerzy Karol Buzek (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001. Since being elected to the European Parliament in 2004, he served as President of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2012.

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PoliticsAge 86

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1941 · 85 yrs

Gloria Allred

Gloria Rachel Allred (née Bloom; born July 3, 1941) is an American attorney known for taking high-profile and often controversial cases, particularly those involving feminist causes. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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LawAge 85

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Famous deaths9

1642 · 384 yrs

Marie de' Medici

Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis; Italian: Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV. Marie served as regent of France between 1610 and 1617 during the minority of her son Louis XIII.

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RoyaltyDied aged 69

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1904 · 122 yrs

Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine, which, in the late 19th century was part of the Ottoman Empire, in an effort to form a Jewish state.

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LiteratureDied aged 44

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1918 · 108 yrs

Mehmed V

Mehmed V Reşâd (Ottoman Turkish: محمد خامس, romanized: Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; Turkish: V. Mehmed or Mehmed Reşad; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch.

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LiteratureDied aged 73

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1933 · 93 yrs

Hipólito Yrigoyen

Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthrow in 1930.

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PoliticsDied aged 82

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1969 · 57 yrs

Brian Jones

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals and play a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts.

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MusicWould be 84

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1971 · 55 yrs

Jim Morrison

James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer-songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors.

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MusicWould be 82

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2022 · 4 yrs

Robert Curl

Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University.

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ScienceWould be 93

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2025 · 1 yrs

Diogo Jota

Diogo José Teixeira da Silva (4 December 1996 – 3 July 2025), commonly known as Diogo Jota, was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a forward and winger. He was known for his finishing, pace, dribbling ability, and work rate.

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2025 · 1 yrs

Michael Madsen

Michael Søren Madsen (September 25, 1957 – July 3, 2025) was an American actor. He was widely known for starring in Quentin Tarantino's films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and The Hateful Eight (2015).

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Events5

1187 · 839 yrs

Battle of Hattin

The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July 1187, between the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt, led by Sultan Saladin. It is also known as the Battle of the Horns of Hattin, due to the shape of the nearby extinct volcano of that name.

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War

1778 · 248 yrs

War of the Bavarian Succession

The War of the Bavarian Succession (German: Bayerischer Erbfolgekrieg; 3 July 1778 – 13 May 1779) was a dispute between the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and an alliance of Saxony and Prussia over succession to the Electorate of Bavaria after the extinction of the Bavarian branch of the House of Wittelsbach.

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War

1866 · 160 yrs

Battle of Königgrätz

The Battle of Königgrätz (or Battle of Sadová; Czech: Bitva u Hradce Králové) was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War in which the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire.

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War

1988 · 38 yrs

Iran Air Flight 655 shootdown

Iran Air Flight 655 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship.

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Disaster

2013 · 13 yrs

2013 Egyptian coup d'état

On July 3, 2013, then-President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by a coup d'etat led by Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led a coalition to remove Morsi from power and suspend the Egyptian constitution of 2012.

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