October 3rd, 1939

Born on October 3rd, 1939

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 30,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 115 days, exactly on August 17th, 2024, people who were born on October 3rd, 1939 will be 31,000 days old!

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What happened on October 3rd?

October 3rd, 2003

Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.

October 3rd, 1991

Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

October 3rd, 1981

A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.

October 3rd, 1962

Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra (pictured).

October 3rd, 1953

Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.

October 3rd, 1952

The United Kingdom successfully completed a nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.

October 3rd, 1951

The First Battle of Maryang-san, widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments during the Korean War, began.

October 3rd, 1849

American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore, Maryland, under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.

October 3rd, 1792

Spanish forces departed Valdivia to suppress the indigenous Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

October 3rd, 1602

Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish ships at the Battle of the Narrow Seas (depicted).

October 3rd, 2022

Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

October 3rd, 2021

Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.

October 3rd, 2015

Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

October 3rd, 2009

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.

October 3rd, 1995

O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 3rd

Born on October 3rd, 1939

80

Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch

German professor

*October 3rd, 1939, Weimar †May 16th, 2020

84

Harper Carter

American film actor

*October 3rd, 1939, Los Angeles

84

Jacques Testart

French biologist

*October 3rd, 1939, Saint-Brieuc

80

Bob Armstrong

American professional wrestler

*October 3rd, 1939, Marietta †August 27th, 2020, Pensacola

62

Velibor Vasović

Serbian footballer (1939-2002)

*October 3rd, 1939, Požarevac †March 4th, 2002, Belgrade

78

Sepp Strubel

German actor, painter, film director, screenwriter and sculptor (1939-2018)

*October 3rd, 1939, Worms †February 25th, 2018

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 3rd?

85

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Peruvian politician and economist; Prime Minister (2005–06), President (2016–18)

*October 3rd, 1938, Lima

50

S. Antonius Budi Ariantho

Badminton player

*October 3rd, 1973, Pekalongan

32

Berry Angriawan

Indonesian badminton player

*October 3rd, 1991, Sukabumi City

59

Clive Owen

British actor

*October 3rd, 1964, Coventry

78

Hans-Rainer Müller

German actor and voice actor

*October 3rd, 1945, Zwickau

21

Eddie Cochran

American rock and roll pioneer

*October 3rd, 1938, Albert Lea †April 17th, 1960, Bath

93

Stanisław Skrowaczewski

Polish composer and conductor (1923-2017)

*October 3rd, 1923, Lviv †February 21st, 2017, St. Louis Park

70

John Perry Barlow

American poet and essayist

*October 3rd, 1947, Cora †February 7th, 2018, San Francisco

36

Starley

Australian singer

*October 3rd, 1987, Sydney

60

Chicho Sibilio

Spanish basketball coach

*October 3rd, 1958, San Cristóbal †August 10th, 2019, San Gregorio de Nigua

42

Zlatan Ibrahimović

Swedish association football player

*October 3rd, 1981, Västra Skrävlinge församling

73

John Patrick Shanley

American writer

*October 3rd, 1950, The Bronx

83

Nacha Guevara

Argentine actress and singer

*October 3rd, 1940, Mar del Plata

82

Chubby Checker

American rock 'n roll singer and dancer

*October 3rd, 1941, Andrews

83

Jean Ratelle

Canadian ice hockey player

*October 3rd, 1940, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

65

Louise Lecavalier

Canadian dancer

*October 3rd, 1958, Laval

87

Steve Reich

American composer

*October 3rd, 1936, New York City

39

Anthony Le Tallec

French association football player

*October 3rd, 1984, Hennebont

78

Mike Troy

American swimmer

*October 3rd, 1940, Indianapolis †August 3rd, 2019, Arizona

82

Ruggero Raimondi

Italian opera singer

*October 3rd, 1941, Bologna

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Born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

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No: With 365 days 1939 is a normal year and no leap year.

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