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In 1964, Jones began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the black-and-white television sitcom The Addams Family.
Notable Deaths on August 3
1983 — Carolyn Jones
American actress (born 1930)
August 3 has 111 recorded notable deaths across history, from 908 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
111 source records
908 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on August 3
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- 1795 Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country. Source
- 1975 A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188. Source
- 1972 The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Source
- 2005 President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. Source
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James II was King of Scots from 1437 until his death in 1460.
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In their 1998 citation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognised Hume as an architect of the Good Friday Agreement.
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In 2010, she won the Republican nomination for Indiana's 2nd congressional district, but narrowly lost the general election to Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly.
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Abu Bakr ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Faḍl, better known by his regnal name al-Ṭāʾiʿ liʾllāh/biʾllāh, was the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad from 974 to his deposition in 991.
More major people who died on August 3
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1460
James II
king of Scotland (born 1430)
James II was King of Scots from 1437 until his death in 1460. The eldest surviving son of James I of Scotland, he succeeded to the Scottish throne at the age of six.
2020
John Hume
Northern Irish politician (born 1937)
John Hume was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
2022
Jackie Walorski
American politician (born 1963)
Jacqueline Renae Walorski was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 2nd congressional district from 2013 until her death in 2022. She was a member of the Republican Party.
1003
At-Ta'i
Abbasid caliph (born 929)
Abu Bakr ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Faḍl, better known by his regnal name al-Ṭāʾiʿ liʾllāh/biʾllāh, was the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad from 974 to his deposition in 991.
1975
Andreas Embirikos
Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)
Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts.
1805
Christopher Anstey
English author and poet (born 1724)
Christopher Anstey was an English poet who also wrote in Latin. After a period managing his family's estates, he moved permanently to Bath and died after a long public life there.
1943
Frumka Płotnicka
Polish resistance fighter during World War II (born 1914)
Frumka Płotnicka was a Jewish Polish resistance fighter during World War II; activist of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) and member of the Labour Zionist organization Dror.
1877
William B. Ogden
American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
William Butler Ogden was an American politician and railroad executive who served as the first Mayor of Chicago. He was referred to as "the Astor of Chicago." He was, at one time, the city's richest citizen.
1969
Alexander Mair
Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (born 1889)
Alexander Mair was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 5 August 1939 to 16 May 1941.
2015
Jef Murray
American artist and author (born 1960)
Jeffrey Patrick Murray was an American fantasy artist and author best known for his illustrations of works by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
1961
Hilda Rix Nicholas
Australian artist (born 1884)
Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian artist. Born in the Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1902 to…
1917
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
German mathematician and academic (born 1849)
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theory.
1979
Bertil Ohlin
Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965.
2000
Joann Lõssov
Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)
Joann Lõssov, also known as Ioann Fyodorovich Lysov, was an Estonian basketball player. Lõssov trained at VSS Kalev, in Tallinn. He was named MVP of the 1947 EuroBasket.
1999
Rod Ansell
Australian hunter (born 1953)
Rodney William Ansell was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter.
1995
Ida Lupino
English-American actress and director (born 1918)
Ida Lupino was a British-American actress, director, writer, and producer.
2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
1792
Richard Arkwright
English engineer and businessman (born 1732)
Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.
1546
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace (born 1484)
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, also known as Antonio Cordiani, was an Italian architect active during the Renaissance, mainly in Rome and the Papal States. He worked on the design of St.