November 3

November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 58 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
• 644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
• 1333 – The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
• 1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
• 1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
• 1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.
• 1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
• 1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma
• 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
• 1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
• 1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
• 1867 – Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
• 1868 – John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.
• 1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
• 1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
• 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
• 1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
• 1913 – The United States introduces an income tax.
• 1918 – Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
• 1918 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.
• 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
• 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
• 1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possible fixed, plebiscite.
• 1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
• 1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
• 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
• 1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.
• 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
• 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
• 1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
• 1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
• 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
• 1978 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
• 1982 – The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
• 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
• 1986 – The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
• 1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
• 1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
• 1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.

Births

• 39 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
• 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1571)
• 1558 – Thomas Kyd, English author (d. 1594)
• 1560 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
• 1587 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
• 1604 – Osman II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1622)
• 1618 – Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor(d. 1707)
• 1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
• 1656 – Georg Reutter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1738)
• 1689 – Jan Josef Ignác Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
• 1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English politician (d. 1792)
• 1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
• 1757 – Robert Smith, American politician, 6th Secretary of State (d. 1842)
• 1777 – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
• 1793 – Stephen F. Austin, American businessman (d. 1836)
• 1794 – William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
• 1799 – William Sprague, American politician (d. 1856)
• 1801 – Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher, founded the Baedeker Publishing Company (d. 1859)
• 1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
• 1815 – John Mitchel, Irish journalist and activist (d. 1875)
• 1816 – Jubal Early, American general and lawyer (d. 1894)
• 1816 – Calvin Fairbank, American minister (d. 1898)
• 1845 – Edward Douglass White, American politician and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
• 1852 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (d. 1912)
• 1856 – Jim McCormick, American baseball player (d. 1918)
• 1857 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)
• 1862 – Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)
• 1863 – Alfred Perot, French physicist (d. 1925)
• 1871 – Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby player (d. 1943)
• 1876 – Stephen Alencastre, American bishop (d. 1940)
• 1877 – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean army officer and politician, 20th President of Chile (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Joseph William Martin, Jr., American politician, 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1968)
• 1884 – Arthur Rosenkampff, American gymnast (d. 1952)
• 1887 – Samuil Marshak, Russian author and poet (d. 1964)
• 1890 – Harry Stephen Keeler, American author (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch missionary (d. 1943)
• 1894 – William George Barker, Canadian pilot (d. 1930)
• 1894 – Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1964)
• 1896 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
• 1899 – Rezső Seress, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1968)
• 1899 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Adolf Dassler, German businessman, founded Adidas (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Leopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
• 1901 – André Malraux, French author (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (d. 1981)
• 1908 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)
• 1909 – James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Richard Hurndall, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1911 – Kick Smit, Dutch footballer (d. 1974)
• 1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan military officer and politician, 46th President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Hal Jackson, American radio host (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Annapurna Maharana, Indian activist (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Claude Barma, French director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1918 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American general (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Russell B. Long, American politician (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
• 1918 – Dean Riesner, American screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish writer and illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1919 – Ludovic Kennedy, Scottish journalist and author (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Květa Legátová, Czech author (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet, educator, and activist (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Dennis McDermott, English-Canadian trade unionist (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Tomás Ó Fiaich, Irish archbishop (d. 1990)
• 1923 – Yamaguchi Hitomi, Japanese author (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican bishop (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
• 1926 – Maurice Couture, Canadian archbishop
• 1927 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Peggy McCay, American actress
• 1928 – Goseki Kojima, Japanese illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Bill Morrison, Australian politician (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese animator and producer (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Alfonso Orueta, Chilean politician (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Ed Richards, American fencer (d. 2012)
• 1930 – D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Brian Robinson, English cyclist
• 1930 – Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer
• 1930 – Lois Smith, American actress
• 1930 – Frits Staal, Dutch philosopher and scholar (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Monica Vitti, Italian actress
• 1931 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (d. 2007)
• 1933 – John Barry, English composer (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Ken Berry, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1933 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Michael Dukakis, American politician, 65th Governor of Massachusetts
• 1933 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1934 – Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
• 1936 – Takao Saito, Japanese illustrator
• 1937 – Dietrich Möller, German politician, Mayor of Marburg
• 1938 – Martin Dunwoody, English mathematician
• 1938 – Akira Kobayashi, Japanese actor and singer
• 1938 – Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
• 1942 – Martin Cruz Smith, American author
• 1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pentangle) (d. 2011)
• 1944 – Jan Boerstoel, Dutch poet and songwriter
• 1945 – Ken Holtzman, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 – Gerd Müller, German footballer
• 1946 – Reinhard Karl, German mountaineer (d. 1982)
• 1946 – Tom Savini, American actor
• 1946 – Wataru Takeshita, Japanese politician
• 1947 – Mazie Hirono, Japanese-American politician
• 1947 – Faraj Sarkohi, Iranian journalist
• 1948 – Lulu, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1948 – Takashi Kawamura, Japanese politician
• 1948 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (d. 1974)
• 1948 – Rick Kreuger, American baseball player
• 1948 – Rainer Zobel, German footballer
• 1949 – Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1949 – Osamu Fujimura, Japanese politician
• 1949 – Larry Holmes, American boxer
• 1949 – Anna Wintour, English-American journalist and editor
• 1950 – Massimo Mongai, Italian author
• 1950 – Joe Queenan, American author and critic
• 1951 – Dwight Evans, American baseball player
• 1951 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist
• 1951 – André Wetzel, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1952 – Roseanne Barr, American comedian, actress, and producer
• 1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor and singer
• 1952 – David Ho, Taiwanese-American scientist
• 1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress
• 1953 – Helios Creed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chrome)
• 1953 – Larry Herndon, American baseball player
• 1953 – Dennis Miller, American comedian and actor
• 1954 – Adam Ant, English singer-songwriter (Adam and the Ants)
• 1955 – Teresa De Sio, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Phil Simms, American football player
• 1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
• 1956 – Gary Ross, American director
• 1956 – Bob Welch, American baseball player
• 1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
• 1957 – Gary Olsen, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1959 – Hal Hartley, American director and screenwriter
• 1960 – Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
• 1961 – David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, English businessman
• 1961 – Dave Hahn, American mountaineer
• 1962 – Gabe Newell, American businessman, co-founder of Valve Corporation
• 1962 – David J. Schiappa, American politician
• 1962 – Jacqui Smith, English politician
• 1963 – Davis Guggenheim, American director and producer
• 1963 – Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese race car driver
• 1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer
• 1964 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress
• 1965 – Gert Heerkes, Dutch football coach and manager
• 1965 – Ann Scott, French author
• 1967 – Mike O'Neill, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – John Tomac, American cyclist
• 1967 – Steven Wilson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, No-Man, and Storm Corrosion)
• 1968 – Alberto Iñurrategi, Spanish mountaineer
• 1968 – Paul Quantrill, Canadian baseball player
• 1969 – Robert Miles, Swiss-Italian DJ and producer
• 1969 – Niels van Steenis, Dutch rower
• 1970 – Geir Frigård, Norwegian footballer
• 1971 – Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
• 1971 – Sticky Fingaz, American rapper and actor (Onyx)
• 1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian and actor
• 1971 – Dwight Yorke, Tobagonian footballer
• 1972 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer
• 1972 – Michael Hofmann, German footballer
• 1972 – Marko Koers, Dutch runner
• 1973 – Nemone, English radio and television host
• 1973 – Ben Fogle, English television host and author
• 1973 – Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
• 1974 – Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player
• 1974 – Sonali Kulkarni, Indian actress
• 1975 – Darren Sharper, American football player
• 1976 – Tōko Aoyama, Japanese voice actress
• 1976 – Guillermo Franco, Argentine-Mexican footballer
• 1976 – Jake Shimabukuro, American ukulele player
• 1977 – Aria Giovanni, American model and actress
• 1977 – Marcel Ketelaer, German footballer
• 1977 – Sean Ringgold, American actor
• 1978 – Tim McIlrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rise Against, Baxter, Arma Angelus, and The Killing Tree)
• 1978 – Hiroko Sakai, Japanese softball player
• 1978 – Koshiro Take, Japanese jockey
• 1978 – Julia Taylor, European porn actress
• 1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
• 1979 – Beau McDonald, Australian footballer
• 1980 – Hans Anderson, Danish Speedway Rider
• 1981 – Diego López Rodríguez, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Rodrigo Millar, Chilean footballer
• 1981 – Sten Pentus, Estonian race car driver
• 1981 – Vicente Matías Vuoso, Argentine-Mexican footballer
• 1982 – Moniek Kleinsman, Dutch speed skater
• 1982 – Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
• 1983 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress
• 1983 – Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderer
• 1984 – Christian Bakkerud, Danish race car driver (d. 2011)
• 1984 – Ryo Nishikido, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (NEWS and Kanjani Eight)
• 1985 – Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
• 1986 – Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
• 1986 – Jermaine Jones, American singer and actor
• 1986 – Piet Velthuizen, Dutch footballer
• 1986 – Heo Young-saeng, South Korean singer (SS501)
• 1987 – Ariane Andrew, American wrestler and manager
• 1987 – Colin Kaepernick, American football player
• 1987 – Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
• 1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model and actress
• 1988 – Angus McLaren, Australian actor
• 1989 – Paula DeAnda, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Joyce Jonathan, French singer
• 1990 – Ellyse Perry, Australian footballer and cricketer
• 1992 – Valeria Solovyeva, Russian tennis player
• 1995 – Kendall Jenner, American model

Deaths

• 361 – Constantius II, Roman emperor (b. 317)
• 753 – Saint Pirmin, Spanish-German monk (b. 700)
• 1254 – John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine emperor (b. 1193)
• 1428 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1388)
• 1580 – Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
• 1584 – Charles Borromeo, Italian archbishop (b. 1538)
• 1600 – Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
• 1639 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (b. 1579)
• 1643 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
• 1643 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
• 1711 – John Ernest Grabe, German theologian (b. 1666)
• 1787 – Robert Lowth, English bishop (b. 1710)
• 1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French activist (b. 1748)
• 1794 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
• 1858 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher (b. 1807)
• 1869 – Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
• 1890 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss politician (b. 1811)
• 1891 – Louis Lucien Bonaparte, French politician and linguist (b. 1813)
• 1917 – Léon Bloy, French author (b. 1846)
• 1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
• 1926 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1927 – Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
• 1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
• 1933 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853)
• 1939 – Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (b. 1870)
• 1949 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
• 1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1957 – Laika, Soviet dog (b. 1954)
• 1957 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)
• 1960 – Paul Willis, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1962 – Antonius van Loon, Dutch tug of war competitor (b. 1888)
• 1962 – L.O. Wenckebach, Dutch sculptor and painter (b. 1895)
• 1964 – John Henry Barbee, American singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
• 1973 – Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1975 – Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1925)
• 1975 – Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician, President of Bangladesh (b. 1925)
• 1975 – Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1926)
• 1983 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Mary Shane, American sportscaster (b. 1945)
• 1988 – Henri van Praag, Dutch educator, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1991 – Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1936)
• 1991 – Chris Bender American singer (b. 1972)
• 1993 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor, invented the Theremin (b. 1895)
• 1994 – Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen, American physicist (b. 1910)
• 1995 – Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician (b. 1887)
• 1995 – John Orchard, English actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, African military officer, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish drug trafficker and murderer (b. 1956)
• 1998 – Bob Kane, American writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-English historian (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Sergejs Žoltoks, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
• 2006 – Paul Mauriat, French conductor (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Marie Rudisill, American author (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Aleksandr Dedyushko, Russian actor (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Martin Meehan, Irish politician (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979)
• 2008 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish author (b. 1906)
• 2009 – Archie Baird, Scottish footballer (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Jerry Bock, American composer (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Jim Clench, Canadian bass player (April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Odd Børretzen, Norwegian singer and author (b. 1926)
• 2012 – George Chesterton, English cricketer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Eugenija Pleškytė, Lithuanian actress (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Ingegerd Troedsson, Swedish politician (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Greek Orthodox Church)
  • Hubertus
  • Malachy O' More
  • Martin de Porres
  • Rupert Mayer
  • Winefride
  • November 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Culture Day (Japan), and its related observances:
  • Feudal Lord's Parade or Hakone Daimyō Gyōretsu (Hakone, Kanagawa)
• Independence Day / Separation Day, celebrates the separation and independence of Panama from Colombia in 1903.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Dominica from the United Kingdom in 1978.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Federated States of Micronesia from the United States in 1986.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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