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October 3

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Second Italo-Ethiopian War

91 years ago

Born this day

1981

Zlatan Ibrahimović

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800th

Francis of Assisi

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Famous births28

1804 · 222 yrs

Allan Kardec

Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (French:; 3 October 1804 – 31 March 1869), known by the pen name of Allan Kardec, was a French educator, translator, and writer. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and the founder of Spiritism.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1858 · 168 yrs

Eleonora Duse

Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse ( DEW-zay, Italian:; 3 October 1858 – 21 April 1924), often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress, rated by many as the greatest of her time. She performed in many countries, notably in the plays of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Henrik Ibsen.

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FilmDied aged 65

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1867 · 159 yrs

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard (French:; 3 October 1867 – 23 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.

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ArtDied aged 79

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1886 · 140 yrs

Alain-Fournier

Henri-Alban Fournier (French pronunciation:; 3 October 1886 – 22 September 1914), known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier (French:), was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature.

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1889 · 137 yrs

Carl von Ossietzky

Carl von Ossietzky (German:; 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament.

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1895 · 131 yrs

Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin (3 October 2026 1895 – 28 December 1925) was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century.

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1897 · 129 yrs

Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon (French:; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature.

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1900 · 126 yrs

Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life.

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1904 · 122 yrs

Charles J. Pedersen

Charles John Pedersen (Japanese: 安井良男, Yasui Yoshio, October 3, 1904 – October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware,…

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1919 · 107 yrs

James M. Buchanan

James McGill Buchanan Jr. ( bew-KAN-ən; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962.

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ScienceWould be 107

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1925 · 101 yrs

Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ( vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life.

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1935 · 91 yrs

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan (3 October 1935 – 14 November 2020) was a Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor. Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Moscow to continue stage acting.

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Famous deaths11

1226 · 800 yrs

Francis of Assisi

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans.

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ReligionDied aged 44

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1896 · 130 yrs

William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.

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ArtDied aged 62

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1929 · 97 yrs

Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Ernst Stresemann (German pronunciation:; 10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929.

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1932 · 94 yrs

Max Wolf

Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was the chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death in 1932.

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ScienceDied aged 69

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1967 · 59 yrs

Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, and composer widely considered one of the most significant figures in American folk music.

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1987 · 39 yrs

Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French:; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades.

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1988 · 38 yrs

Franz Josef Strauß

Franz Josef Strauss (German: Strauß; 6 September 1915 – 3 October 1988) was a German politician.

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1999 · 27 yrs

Akio Morita

Akio Morita (盛田昭夫, Morita Akio; January 26, 1921 – October 3, 1999) was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka.

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2004 · 22 yrs

Janet Leigh

Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress, businesswoman and author. Leigh was established as one of the earliest scream queens for starring in horror films, and is also known for starring in dramatic productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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2017 · 9 yrs

Jalal Talabani

Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: جەلال تاڵەبانی, romanized: Celal Talebanî, Arabic: جلال طالباني, romanized: Jalāl Ṭālabānī; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the 6th president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq.

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2018 · 8 yrs

Leon M. Lederman

Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos.

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Events5

1739 · 287 yrs

Fifth Russo-Turkish War

The Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739 between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was caused by the Ottoman Empire's war with Persia and the continuing raids by the Crimean Tatars. The war also represented Russia's ongoing struggle for access to the Black Sea.

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War

1910 · 116 yrs

5 October 1910 revolution

The 5 October 1910 Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução de 5 de outubro de 1910) was the overthrow of the centuries-old Portuguese monarchy and its replacement by the First Portuguese Republic. It was the result of a coup d'état organized by the Portuguese Republican Party.

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War

1935 · 91 yrs

Second Italo-Ethiopian War

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to May 1936.

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War

1993 · 33 yrs

Battle of Mogadishu

The Battle of Mogadishu (Somali: Maalintii Rangers, lit. 'Day of the Rangers'), also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident, was part of Operation Gothic Serpent.

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War

2010 · 16 yrs

2010 Commonwealth Games

The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event for the members of the Commonwealth that was held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010.

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