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Jonathan Daniel Harris was an American character actor whose career included more than 500 television and film appearances, as well as voiceovers.
Notable Deaths on November 3
2002 — Jonathan Harris
American actor (born 1914)
November 3 has 110 recorded notable deaths across history, from 361 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
110 source records
361 – 2025
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Major events on November 3
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- 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to a full term as U.S. president, winning 61% of the vote and 44 states, while Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time, casting the majority of their votes for Lyndon Johnson. Source
- 1838 The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. Source
- 1992 Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 United States presidential election. Source
- 1973 Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet. Source
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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.
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Over the course of her career, she won four Tony Awards and an Emmy Award.
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Viktor Chernomyrdin was the Minister of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union, after which he became first chairman of Gazprom energy company and the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia (1992–1998) based on consecutive years.
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Paul Mauriat is best known in the United States for his million-selling remake of André Popp's "Love is Blue", which was number 1 for 5 weeks in 1968.
More major people who died on November 3
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
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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.
1990
Mary Martin
American actress and singer (born 1913)
Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title…
2010
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Russian politician and diplomat, 30th Prime Minister of Russia (born 1938)
Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman.
2006
Paul Mauriat
French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1925)
Paul Julien André Mauriat was a French orchestra leader, conductor of Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, who specialized in the easy listening genre.
2025
Kim Yong-nam
North Korean politician (born 1928)
Kim Yong-nam was a North Korean politician who served as the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, from 1998 until 2019.
2006
Alberto Spencer
Ecuadorean footballer (born 1937)
Alberto Pedro Spencer Herrera was an Ecuadorian footballer who played as a forward, and is widely regarded as one of the best Ecuadorian men's footballers of all time.
2015
Tom Graveney
English cricketer and sportscaster (born 1927)
Thomas William Graveney was an English first-class cricketer, representing his country in 79 Test matches and scoring over 4,800 runs.
1969
Zeki Rıza Sporel
Turkish footballer (born 1898)
Zeki Rıza Sporel was a Turkish football player and a politician. He plied his trade at the striker position for Fenerbahçe and the Turkey national football team.
1968
Vern Stephens
American baseball player (born 1920)
Vernon Decatur Stephens was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1941 through 1955.
1997
Ronald Barnes
American carillon player and composer (born 1927)
Ronald Montague Barnes was an American carillonist, composer, and musicologist. He first began playing the carillon as a teenager at his hometown's church.
1599
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.
2016
Kay Starr
American singer (born 1922)
Kay Starr was an American singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage.
2002
Lonnie Donegan
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931)
Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop and rock musicians.
1980
Caroline Mytinger
American painter and author (born 1897)
Caroline Mytinger, was an American portrait painter born in Sacramento, California, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is best known for her paintings of indigenous people in the South Seas during the late 1920s.
1956
Jean Metzinger
French artist, (born 1883)
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism.
1993
Léon Theremin
Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (born 1895)
Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced.
1600
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.
1998
Bob Kane
American author and illustrator, co-created Batman (born 1915)
Robert Kane was an American comic book writer, animator, and artist who was traditionally credited as the creator of Batman but is now credited as his co-creator.
1933
Pierre Paul Émile Roux
French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (born 1853)
Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist.