Who are famous people born on May 3?

Famous people born on May 3 include Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Bing Crosby (1903), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), James Brown (1933).

What star sign is someone born on May 3?

Someone born on May 3 is a Taurus.

What is the birthstone for May 3?

The birthstone for May is emerald.

How common is a birthday on May 3?

In the US, May 3 is the No. 227 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,205 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).

Famous birthdays on May 3

Famous people born on May 3, from every year, and what happened on this day in history.

♉ Star sign
Taurus
💎 Birthstone
Emerald
👶 How common
No. 227 of 366

Born on May 3

Niccolò Machiavelli
born 1469 · Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
Mikhail Bulgakov
born 1891 · Russian author (1891–1940)
Bing Crosby
born 1903 · American singer and actor (1903–1977)
Sugar Ray Robinson
born 1921 · American boxer (1921–1989)
James Brown
born 1933 · American musician (1933–2006)
Rebecca Hall
born 1982 · English actress and filmmaker (born 1982)
Florian Wirtz
born 2003 · German association football player (born 2003)
Christina Hendricks
born 1975 · British-American actress (born 1975)
Rachel Zegler
born 2001 · American actress (born 2001)
Leyla Zana
born 1961 · Turkish statesperson (born 1961)
Mikhail Prokhorov
born 1965 · Russian entrepreneur and politician (born 1965)
Danila Kozlovsky
born 1985 · Russian actor, writer, producer, film director
Aleksandar Pavlović
born 2004 · German footballer (born 2004)
Alexander Gerst
born 1976 · German ESA astronaut and geophysicist
Omar Abdel-Rahman
born 1938 · leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya
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Mohamed Eid
born 1987 · Egyptian footballer
Nona Gaprindashvili
born 1941 · Soviet chess player
Věra Čáslavská
born 1942 · Czechoslovak sports official, artistic gymnast and coach (1942–2016)
Antoni Piechniczek
born 1942 · Polish footballer
Rabah Saâdane
born 1946 · Algerian footballer (born 1946)
Leopoldo Luque
born 1949 · Argentine footballer (1949–2021)
Massimo Ranieri
born 1951 · Italian actor and singer (born 1951)
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
born 1951 · Polish politician and economist
Hashem Safieddine
born 1964 · Lebanese politician (1964-2024)
Ignatius Aphrem II
born 1965 · 123rd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch
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Chris Zoricich
born 1969 · New Zealand footballer
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Wang Yan
born 1971 · Chinese racewalker
Gharib Amzine
born 1973 · Moroccan and French association football player
Michael Reiziger
born 1973 · Dutch footballer
Princess Haya bint Al-Hussein of Jordan
born 1974 · Jordanian Royal
Beto
born 1976 · Portuguese footballer (born 1976)
Eduard Heger
born 1976 · Slovak politician
Noel Valladares
born 1977 · Honduran footballer
Mozhan Marnò
born 1980 · American actress
Myriam Fares
born 1983 · Lebanese musician, actress, and dancer
Márton Fülöp
born 1983 · Hungarian footballer (1983-2015)
Satoru Yamagishi
born 1983 · Japanese association football player
Ezequiel Lavezzi
born 1985 · Argentine association football player (born 1985)
Osmar Molinas
born 1987 · Paraguayan footballer
Katinka Hosszú
born 1989 · Hungarian swimmer

May 3 in history

2023Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.
2015Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
2000The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
1986Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1968Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas.
1952Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
1948The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1939The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
1920A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1849The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49.
1815Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1802Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government.
1491Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Christian feast day: Blessed Emilia Bicchieri
Christian feast day: Juvenal of Narni
Christian feast day: Marie-Léonie Paradis
Christian feast day: Moura and Timothy (Catholic and Coptic Church)
Christian feast day: Philip and James the Lesser
Christian feast day: Pope Alexander I
Christian feast day: Sarah the Martyr (Coptic Church)
Christian feast day: The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland
Christian feast day: Theodosius of Kiev (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church)

May 3 in every year

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Questions about May 3 birthdays

Who are famous people born on May 3?: Famous people born on May 3 include Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Bing Crosby (1903), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), James Brown (1933).
What star sign is someone born on May 3?: Someone born on May 3 is a Taurus.
What is the birthstone for May 3?: The birthstone for May is emerald.
How common is a birthday on May 3?: In the US, May 3 is the No. 227 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,205 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).