Notable Deaths on November 3

110 people 361 – 2025

November 3 has seen 110 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 361 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Vern Stephens

1968 — Vern Stephens

American baseball player (born 1920)

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He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1941 through 1955

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An eight-time All-Star, Stephens was notable for being the 1945 American League home run champion and was a three-time American League RBI champion

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Louis Browns team to win an American League pennant in 1944, and was a top power hitter for the Boston Red Sox

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He was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Vernon Decatur Stephens was an American professional baseball player


Constantius II
Roman emperor (born 317)
Constantius II was Roman emperor from 337 to 361. His reign saw constant warfare on the borders against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic peoples, while internally the Roman Empire went through repeated civil wars, court…
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361
Saint Pirmin
Spanish-German monk and saint (born 700)
Pirmin, was a Merovingian-era monk and missionary who founded or restored numerous monasteries in Alemannia. He is regarded as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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753
Saer de Quincy
1st Earl of Winchester, English baron and rebel (born c. 1170)
Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester was one of the leaders of the baronial rebellion against John, King of England, and a major figure in both the kingdoms of Scotland and England in the decades around the turn of…
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1219
Urraca of Castile
Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso II of Portugal (born 1186)
Urraca of Castile was Queen of Portugal by marriage to Afonso II of Portugal. A daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England, her maternal grandparents were Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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1220
John III Doukas Vatatzes
Byzantine emperor (born 1193)
John III Doukas Vatatzes, Latinized as Ducas Vatatzes, was Emperor of Nicaea from 1221 to 1254. He was succeeded by his son, known as Theodore II Doukas Laskaris.
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1254
Irish suspected witch (born c. 1300)
Petronilla de Midia was an alleged follower of Dame Alice Kyteler, a wealthy woman of Flemish ancestry who lived in the English colony of Ireland in what is now County Kilkenny. After the death of Kyteler's fourth…
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1324
Jeanne de Valois
Queen of Navarre (born 1343)
Joan of France, also known as Joan or Joanna of Valois, was Queen of Navarre by marriage to Charles II of Navarre. She was the daughter of John II of France, and Bonne of Luxembourg. She served as regent of Navarre…
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1373
Thomas Montacute
4th Earl of Salisbury, English general and politician (born 1388)
Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury, KG of Bisham in Berkshire, was an English nobleman and one of the most important English commanders during the Hundred Years' War.
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1428
Edmund Tudor
1st Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII of England (born 1431)
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, also known as Edmund of Hadham, was the father of King Henry VII of England and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd. Born to Sir Owen Tudor and the dowager queen Catherine of…
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1456
Jerónimo Zurita y Castro
Spanish historian and author (born 1512)
Jerónimo de Zurita y Castro or simply Jerónimo de Zurita was a Spanish historian of the sixteenth century who founded the modern tradition of historical scholarship in Spain.
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1580
Charles Borromeo
Italian cardinal and saint (born 1538)
Charles Borromeo was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was made a cardinal in 1560.
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1584
Andrew Báthory
Prince of Transylvania (born c. 1563)
Andrew Báthory was the Cardinal-deacon of Sant'Adriano al Foro from 1584 to 1599, Prince-Bishop of Warmia from 1589 to 1599, and Prince of Transylvania in 1599. His father was a brother of Stephen Báthory, who ruled the…
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1599
Richard Hooker
English priest and theologian (born 1554)
Richard Hooker was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian. He was one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century. His defence of the role of redeemed reason…
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1600
Martin de Porres
Peruvian saint (born 1579)
Martín de Porras Velázquez was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of Black people, mixed-race…
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1639
John Bainbridge
English astronomer and academic (born 1582)
John Bainbridge was an English astronomer and mathematician.
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1643
Paul Guldin
Swiss astronomer and mathematician (born 1577)
Paul Guldin was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer. He discovered the Guldinus theorem to determine the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution. Guldin was noted for his association with the German…
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1643
Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha
Ottoman soldier and politician, 110th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1635)
Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha was an Ottoman-Albanian nobleman and statesman, who belonged to the renowned Köprülü family of Albanian origin, which produced six grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
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1676
John Ernest Grabe
German theologian and academic (born 1666)
John Ernest Grabe, Anglican divine, was born at Königsberg, where his father, Martin Sylvester Grabe, was professor of theology and history.
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1711
Robert Lowth
English bishop and academic (born 1710)
Robert Lowth was an English clergyman and academic who served as the Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of St Davids, Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.
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1787
Olympe de Gouges
French playwright and activist (born 1748)
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
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1793
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Who died on November 3?

Vern Stephens — American baseball player (1920–1968)

Death year1968
Known forHe played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1941 through 1955
Deaths on this date110 (361 – 2025)

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