October 3rd, 1963

Born on October 3rd, 1963

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 21,000 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, 1993

An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.

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

Born on October 3rd, 1963

58

Daren Gilbert

American football player (1963–2022)

*October 3rd, 1963, San Diego †July 31st, 2022

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

59

Clive Owen

British actor

*October 3rd, 1964, Coventry

36

Starley

Australian singer

*October 3rd, 1987, Sydney

42

Zlatan Ibrahimović

Swedish association football player

*October 3rd, 1981, Västra Skrävlinge församling

61

Tommy Lee

American drummer (born 1962)

*October 3rd, 1962, Athens

58

Jan-Ove Waldner

Swedish table tennis player

*October 3rd, 1965, Stockholm

45

Gerald Asamoah

German association football player

*October 3rd, 1978, Mampong

73

John Patrick Shanley

American writer

*October 3rd, 1950, The Bronx

63

Cinzia De Ponti

Italian actress

*October 3rd, 1960, Pescara

64

Carmen Russo

Reality television personality, singer, actress, dancer

*October 3rd, 1959, Genoa

65

Louise Lecavalier

Canadian dancer

*October 3rd, 1958, Laval

54

Gwen Stefani

American singer-songwriter

*October 3rd, 1969, Fullerton

56

Rob Liefeld

American comic book creator

*October 3rd, 1967, Anaheim

56

Eriq Ebouaney

French actor

*October 3rd, 1967, Angers

52

Zoe Lyons

Comedian

*October 3rd, 1971, Haverfordwest

40

Tessa Thompson

American actress

*October 3rd, 1983, Los Angeles

59

Carin C. Tietze

American actor and voice actor

*October 3rd, 1964, Denver

93

James M. Buchanan

American economist (1919–2013)

*October 3rd, 1919, Murfreesboro †January 9th, 2013, Blacksburg

63

Joe Sacco

Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the Non-Fiction Graphic Novel (b. 1960)

*October 3rd, 1960, Kirkop

57

Natalie Raitano

American actress

*October 3rd, 1966, Charleroi

64

Jack Wagner

American actor and singer

*October 3rd, 1959, Washington

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Born in 1963

60

Shane Reti

New Zealand politician and doctor

*June 5th, 1963, Hamilton

60

Xuxa

Brazilian television presenter, actress, singer and former model and Wiggles member

*March 27th, 1963, Santa Rosa

60

Martin Brygmann

Danish composer, comedian and actor

*January 25th, 1963, Kølvrå

60

Viktor Orbán

Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–present)

*May 31st, 1963, Székesfehérvár

60

Mark Strong

British actor

*August 5th, 1963, London

60

Grete Mogensen

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1963, Skive

48

Whitney Houston

American singer and actress

*August 9th, 1963, Newark †February 11th, 2012, Beverly Hills

60

Ming-Na Wen

American actress and model

*November 20th, 1963, Coloane

60

Thomas Anders

German singer, songwriter, and producer

*March 1st, 1963, Mörz, Münstermaifeld

60

Vanessa Williams

American actress, singer and former Miss America

*March 18th, 1963, The Bronx

60

Hugh Bonneville

English actor

*November 10th, 1963, Blackheath

60

Edie Falco

American actress

*July 5th, 1963, Brooklyn

60

Rupert Graves

English film, television, and theatre actor

*June 30th, 1963, Weston-super-Mare

59

Til Schweiger

German actor

*December 19th, 1963, Freiburg im Breisgau

60

Michael Jordan

American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)

*February 17th, 1963, Brooklyn

60

Daniel Roebuck

American actor and writer

*March 4th, 1963, Bethlehem

53

Mika Vainio

Finnish electronic musician

*May 15th, 1963, Helsinki †April 12th, 2017, Trouville-sur-Mer

60

Ute Lemper

German singer and actress

*July 4th, 1963, Münster

60

Andrea Leadsom

British politician (born 1963)

*May 13th, 1963, Aylesbury

60

Kevin Chamberlin

American actor

*November 25th, 1963, Baltimore

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No: With 365 days 1963 is a normal year and no leap year.

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