Did you know
"Hollaback Girl" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart while also becoming the first US download to sell one million copies.
Famous Birthdays on October 3
1969 — Gwen Stefani
American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
October 3 has 235 recorded notable births across history, from 1390 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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1390 – 2004
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Major events on October 3
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- 1990 The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day. Source
- 2023 Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election Source
- 1739 The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War. Source
- 1951 Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops. Source
Did you know
While working on her debut studio album, Simpson became the star of a spin-off reality series, The Ashlee Simpson Show, which was broadcast on MTV between 2004 and 2005.
Did you know
In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1960, an honor it maintained in an August 2013 update of the list.
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Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that emerged as a counterpoint to the male-dominated and formalist fields of painting and sculpture.
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Claudio Pizarro is also the oldest player to score a goal in the Bundesliga, at over 40 years old.
More major people born on October 3
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1984
Ashlee Simpson
American singer-songwriter and actress
Ashley Nicolle Ross-Næss, also known as Ashlee Simpson, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.
1941
Chubby Checker
American singer-songwriter
Chubby Checker is an American rock and roll singer and dancer.
1949
Laurie Simmons
American photographer and director
Laurie Simmons is an American photographer and filmmaker. Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that emerged as a counterpoint to the male-dominated…
1978
Claudio Pizarro
Peruvian footballer
Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio is a Peruvian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently serving as club ambassador for Bayern Munich.
1390
Humphrey
Duke of Gloucester (died 1447)
Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester was an English prince, soldier and literary patron.
1952
Bruce Arians
American football coach
Bruce Charles Arians is an American football executive and former coach in the National Football League (NFL). Since 2022, he has been a senior football consultant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1458
Saint Casimir
Prince of Poland and Duke of Lithuania (died 1484)
Casimir Jagiellon was a prince of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The second son of King Casimir IV Jagiellon, he was tutored by Johannes Longinus, a Polish chronicler, diplomat, and priest.
1931
Glenn Hall
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2026)
Glenn Henry Hall was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League career, which lasted from 1952 to 1971 with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St.
1923
Edward Oliver LeBlanc
Dominican lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Dominica (died 2004)
Edward Oliver LeBlanc was a Dominican politician who served as the chief minister from January 1961 to 1 March 1967 and as the first premier from 1 March 1967 to 27 July 1974.
1970
Elmar Liitmaa
Estonian guitarist and songwriter
Terminaator is an Estonian rock group formed in 1987 by Arno Veimer and Jaagup Kreem in Tallinn 10. High School. Kreem was in the 7th grade then. The first public performance was in Tallinn 47.
1945
Tony Brown
English footballer and sportscaster
Anthony Brown is an English former footballer who played as a wing half and an inside forward. He was often referred to by his nickname Bomber or Bomber Brown and was known for his spectacular goals.
2001
C. J. Stroud
American football player
Coleridge Bernard "C. J." Stroud IV is an American professional football quarterback for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL).
1979
John Morrison
American wrestler and actor
John Randall Hennigan, better known by his ring name John Morrison, is an American professional wrestler and actor.
1955
Moshe Kam
American engineering educator
Dr Moshe Kam is an Israeli and American electrical engineer. He is an engineering educator serving as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
1936
Steve Reich
American composer
Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons.
1940
Alan O'Day
American singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Alan Earle O'Day was an American singer-songwriter, best known for writing and singing "Undercover Angel", a million-selling Gold-certified American No. 1 hit in 1977.
1885
Sophie Treadwell
American playwright and journalist (died 1970)
Sophie Anita Treadwell was an American playwright and journalist of the first half of the 20th century.
1862
Johnny Briggs
English cricketer and rugby player (died 1902)
Johnny Briggs was an English left arm spin bowler who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1879 and 1900 and remains the second-highest wicket-taker in the county's history after Brian Statham.
1976
Seann William Scott
American actor and producer
Seann William Scott is an American actor. In film, Scott is best known for his breakout role as Steve Stifler in the American Pie film series (1999–2012).