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On This Day · The 215th day of the year

August 3

August 3's record stretches 924 years, from 1057 to 1981. Its center of gravity is the 20th century, and conflict is a recurring thread.

♌ZodiacLeo ◈BirthstonePeridot ❀Birth flowerGladiolus

Leo is the sign for August 3 — read more on the Leo page, or see August's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on August 3?

August 3 is the 215th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1057 and 1981. Famous people born on August 3 include Konstantin Melnikov, Frederick William III and Ernie Pyle.

Released on August 3

Movies, games, albums & shows

2023

  • Game Baldur's Gate III

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1057

    Pope Stephen IX

  2. 1645

    Thirty Years' War

  3. 1778

    La Scala

  4. 1903

    Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization

  5. 1914

    World War I

  6. 1940

    World War II

  7. 1960

    Niger

  8. 1975

    Boeing 707

  9. 1977

    Tandy Corporation

  10. 1981

    Senegal

Famous birthday twins

Born on August 3

Konstantin Melnikov

b. 1890

Frederick William III

b. 1770

Ernie Pyle

b. 1900

Isaiah Washington

b. 1963

John Landis

b. 1950

Sven Ulreich

b. 1988

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

b. 1948

Regina Jonas

b. 1902

Deaths

  • 2008Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • 2006Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
  • 1968Konstantin Rokossovsky
  • 1917Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
  • 1867August Böckh
  • 979Thietmar, Margrave of Meissen

Holidays & observances

  • —Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti (Guinea-Bissau)
  • —Armed Forces Day (Equatorial Guinea)
  • —Christian feast day: George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Lydia of Thyatira
  • —Christian feast day: Myrrhbearers (Lutheran Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Nicodemus
  • —Christian feast day: Olaf II of Norway (Translation of the relic)
  • —Christian feast day: Stephen (Discovery of the relic)

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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