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Kargil War

27 years ago

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1469

Niccolò Machiavelli

Died aged 58

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Famous births26

AD 612 · 1414 yrs

Heraclius Constantine

Heraclius Constantine (Latin: Heraclius novus Constantinus; Greek: Ἡράκλειος νέος Κωνσταντῖνος, romanized: Hērákleios néos Kōnstantīnos; 3 May 612 – 25 May 641), often enumerated as Constantine III, was one of the shortest reigning sole Byzantine emperors, ruling for three months in 641.

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RoyaltyDied aged 29

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1469 · 557 yrs

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, political philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance.

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PoliticsDied aged 58

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1748 · 278 yrs

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (3 May 1748 – 20 June 1836), usually known as the Abbé Sieyès (traditional French pronunciation:; modern pronunciation:), was a French Catholic priest, abbé, and political writer who was a leading political theorist of the French Revolution (1789–1799).

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ReligionDied aged 88

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1826 · 200 yrs

Carl XV of Sweden

Charles XV and IV (Carl Ludvig Eugen; 3 May 1826 – 18 September 1872) was King of Sweden as Charles XV (Swedish: Karl XV) and King of Norway as Charles IV (Norwegian: Carl IV) from 1859 until his death in 1872. Charles was the third Swedish monarch from the House of Bernadotte.

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RoyaltyDied aged 46

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1845 · 181 yrs

Élie Metchnikoff

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (15 May 1845 – 15 July 1916), gallicised and known in Western sources as Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his research in immunology (study of immune systems) and thanatology (study of death).

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ScienceDied aged 71

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1848 · 178 yrs

Viktor Vasnetsov

Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Васнецов; 15 May 1848 – 23 July 1926) was a Russian painter and draughtsman who specialised in mythological and historical subjects.

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ArtDied aged 78

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1849 · 177 yrs

Bernhard von Bülow

Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow (German: Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin Fürst von Bülow; 3 May 1849 – 28 October 1929) was a German politician who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 1909.

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PoliticsDied aged 80

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1873 · 153 yrs

Pavlo Skoropadsky

Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadsky (Ukrainian: Павло Петрович Скоропадський; 15 May 1873 – 26 April 1945) was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military leader and statesman who served as the hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a coup d'état on 29 April, of the same year. He abdicated on 14 December 1918.

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MilitaryDied aged 71

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1892 · 134 yrs

George Paget Thomson

Sir George Paget Thomson (3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals." His father, J. J.

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1898 · 128 yrs

Golda Meir

Golda Meir (previously Meyerson; née Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government.

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1902 · 124 yrs

Alfred Kastler

Alfred Kastler (French:; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping.

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1903 · 123 yrs

Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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1270 · 756 yrs

Béla IV of Hungary

Béla IV (1206 – 3 May 1270) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258. As the oldest son of King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a group of influential noblemen in his father's lifetime in 1214.

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RoyaltyDied aged 63

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1481 · 545 yrs

Mehmed II

Mehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, romanized: Meḥemmed-i s̱ānī; Turkish: II. Mehmed, pronounced; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Ottoman Turkish: ابو الفتح, romanized: Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit.

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RoyaltyDied aged 49

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1758 · 268 yrs

Benedict XIV

Pope Benedict XIV (Latin: Benedictus XIV; Italian: Benedetto XIV; 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death on 3 May 1758.

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ReligionDied aged 83

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1856 · 170 yrs

Adolphe Adam

Adolphe Charles Adam (French:; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic.

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MusicDied aged 52

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1961 · 65 yrs

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty ( MUR-loh PON-tee; French:; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.

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1969 · 57 yrs

Zakir Husain

Zakir Husain Khan (8 February 1897 – 3 May 1969) was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the vice president of India from 1962 to 1967 and president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969.

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1981 · 45 yrs

Nargis

Nargis Dutt (born Fatima Rashid, also known as Nirmala Dutt; 1 June 1929 – 3 May 1981), known mononymously as Nargis, was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema.

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1987 · 39 yrs

Dalida

Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (Italian:; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida (French:, Italian:; Arabic: داليدا), was an Italian naturalized French singer and actress. Throughout her international career, Dalida sold more than 140 million records worldwide.

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1991 · 35 yrs

Jerzy Kosiński

Jerzy Kosiński (Polish pronunciation:; born Józef Nikodem Lewinkopf; June 14, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a Polish-born American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of PEN, who wrote primarily in English.

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2014 · 12 yrs

Gary S. Becker

Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.

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2022 · 4 yrs

Stanislaw Shushkievich

Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich (15 December 1934 – 3 May 2022) was a Belarusian politician and scientist who served as the first head of state of independent Belarus after it seceded from the Soviet Union, serving as the first chairman of the Supreme Soviet (also called chairman of Parliament or president) from…

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1512 · 514 yrs

Fifth Council of the Lateran

The Fifth Council of the Lateran, held between 1512 and 1517, was the eighteenth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church and was the last council before the Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent. This was the first time since 1213 that the Papal States would host an ecumenical council.

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Politics

1660 · 366 yrs

Treaty of Oliva

The Treaty or Peace of Oliva (Polish: Pokój Oliwski; Swedish: Freden i Oliva; German: Vertrag von Oliva) was one of the peace treaties ending the Second Northern War (1655–1660). It was signed on 3 May 1660.

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Politics

1791 · 235 yrs

Constitution of May 3, 1791

The Constitution of 3 May 1791, titled the Government Act, was a written constitution for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that was adopted by the Great Sejm that met between 1788 and 1792.

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Politics

1999 · 27 yrs

Kargil War

The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir and along the Line of Control (LoC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (lit.

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War

2023 · 3 yrs

Belgrade school shooting

On the morning of 3 May 2023, a school shooting occurred at Vladislav Ribnikar Model Elementary School in the Vračar municipality of Belgrade, Serbia.

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