Anniversaries 3 May

Birth

Niccolo Machiavelli130

Italian politician, Writer and Author 1469–1527

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès4

French ''abbé'' ad statesman 1748–1836

August von Kotzebue5

German dramatist 1761–1819

Richard D'Oyly Carte1

English theatre manager and producer 1844–1901

Élie Metchnikoff1

Russian-French immunologist, embriologist, biologist, Nobel… 1845–1916

E. W. Howe35

Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor 1853–1937

Эдгар Хоу3

1853–1937

Mikhail Bulgakov63

Russian author primarily known for his novel "Master and Ma… 1891–1940

Dodie Smith49

English novelist and playwright 1896–1990

Walter Slezak10

actor 1902–1983

Wang Ming3

Chinese politician 1904–1974

May Sarton26

American poet, novelist, and memoirist 1912–1995

Virgil Fox1

American musician 1912–1980

Мэй Сартон1

1912–1995

Kiro Gligorov2

President of the Republic of Macedonia 1917–2012

Pete Seeger38

American folk singer 1919–2014

Sugar Ray Robinson9

American boxer 1921–1989

Yehuda Amichai3

Israeli poet 1924–2000

Ann B. Davis2

American actress 1926–2014

Luce Irigaray2

feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist… 1930

Steven Weinberg46

American theoretical physicist 1933

James Brown22

American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist 1933–2006

Jim Risch1

American politician 1943

Peter Doyle (bishop)1

Catholic bishop 1944

Jeffrey C. Hall1

American geneticist and chronobiologist 1945

Götz Aly10

German journalist, historian and social scientist 1947

Ron Wyden1

American politician 1949

Michael Cadnum2

American writer 1949

Paul Sloane11

British author and puzzle designer 1950

Christopher Cross1

American singer-songwriter 1951

Marlena de Blasi1

1952

Carlo Rovelli21

Italian physicist 1956

Ben Elton7

English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director 1959

Jaron Lanier14

American computer scientist, musician, and author 1960

Derek Abbott7

Physicist, engineer 1960

David Vitter2

U.S. Senator from Louisiana 1961

Michael Marshall Smith26

British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer 1965

Nina Paley22

US animator, cartoonist and free culture activist 1968

Reza Aslan2

Iranian-American author, commentator 1972

Maryam Mirzakhani4

Iranian mathematician 1977–2017

Hiro Mashima23

Japanese manga artist 1977

Genevieve Nnaji2

Nigerian actress, producer, and director 1979

Eric Frein9

American fugitive 1983

Death

Mehmed II15

Ottoman sultan 1432–1481

Thomas Tusser12

English poet 1524–1580

Thomas Hood50

British writer 1799–1845

Juan Donoso Cortés4

Spanish author, political theorist and diplomat 1809–1853

William Frederick Yeames1

british painter 1835–1918

Charles Fort30

American writer 1874–1932

Patrick Pearse14

Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916 1879–1916

Karl Freund4

German film director and cinematographer 1890–1969

Zakir Hussain (politician)43

3rd President of India 1897–1969

Maurice Merleau-Ponty24

French phenomenological philosopher 1908–1961

Barbara Castle2

British politician 1910–2002

Bill Downs24

American journalist 1914–1978

Jacques Bertin20

French geographer and cartographer 1918–2010

Karel Appel58

Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet 1921–2006

Alex Agase1

American football player and coach, college athletics admin… 1922–2007

Goro Shimura2

Japanese mathematician 1930–2019

Gary S. Becker8

American economist 1930–2014

Hamid Dalwai7

Indian social reformer, thinker and writer 1932–1977

Dalida5

French singer, actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder 1933–1987

Jerzy Kosiński4

Novelist 1933–1991

John Miles Foley3

American literary scholar 1947–2012

James Mace3

American historian of the Ukraine 1952–2004