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Today in History June 3
Step back in time and explore significant historical events, notable births, and memorable deaths that occurred on this day throughout history.
- 2019 Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in pr...
- 2013 The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
- 2013 At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
- 2012 A plane carrying 153 people crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board plus six people on the ground.
- 2012 The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
- 2005 Désiré Doué, French footballer
- 2002 Tyrell Sloan, Australian rugby league player
- 2001 Jalen Suggs, American basketball player
- 2000 Beabadoobee, Filipino singer-songwriter
- 1999 Cameron Green, Australian cricketer
- 2025 Jim Marshall, American football player (born 1937)
- 2025 Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1936)
- 2025 Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist and essayist (born 1940)
- 2024 Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian chancellor (born 1949)
- 2024 William Russell, English actor (born 1924)
All 1,061 Celebrities (A-Z)
Browse our complete directory of notable personalities organized alphabetically. From A-list celebrities to historical icons, find detailed profiles of the world's most influential individuals.
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Abani, ChrisAbbey, EdwardAbe, KoboAboulela, LeilaAbramović, MarinaAbécassis, ÉlietteAchebe, ChinuaAdams, JohnAdams, John QuincyAdams, ScottAdebayo, Ayọ̀bámiAdichie, Chimamanda NgoziAdiga, AravindAdkins, AdeleAdrianov, NikolaiAguon, JulianAho, JuhaniAiken, JoanAkhmatova, AnnaAl Aswany, AlaaAl Bisri, Sharifaal-Haytham, IbnAl-KhwarizmiAl-Kurdi, DuaaAlcott, KathleenAlcott, Louisa MayAlexandria, NanaAlexievich, SvetlanaAlexis, AndréAlhakim, TawfiqAlharthi, JokhaAli, MonicaAljechin, AlexanderAllende, IsabelAlmodóvar, PedroAltan, AhmetAlwan, HannaAmado, JorgeAmedee Barbey, JulesAnand, Mulk RajAnand, ViswanathanAndersen, Hans ChristianAnderton, JimAndrić, IvoAngelou, MayaAnguissola, SofonisbaAnne Porter, KatherineAnning, MaryAparicio, YalitzaArchimedesAristotleArjun, SaraArmani, GiorgioAronian, LevonArp, JeanArthur, Chester A.Arudpragasam, AnukAsturias, Miguel ÁngelAtwood, MargaretAuden, W. H.Audubon, John JamesAusten, Janede Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez
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Babbage, CharlesBach, Johann SebastianBacon, FrancisBad BunnyBajani, Andreade Balzac, HonoréBamonte, PerryBarbey d’Aurevilly, JulesBardem, JavierBardot, BrigitteBaring-Gould, SabineBarnes, DjunaBarnes, JulianBasquiat, Jean-MichelBaudelaire, CharlesBaulieu, Étienne-ÉmileBeatty, Paulde Beauvoir, SimoneBeckett, SamuelBeecher Stowe, Harrietvan Beethoven, LudwigBekele, KenenisaBeliavsky, AlexanderBell, GertrudeBellow, SaulBellucci, MonicaBelmondo, Jean-PaulBelmondo, StefaniaBenigni, RobertoBergman, IngridBerners-Lee, TimBernini, Gian LorenzoBerry, HalleBetancourt, ÍngridBetasamosake Simpson, LeanneBeukes, LaurenBezos, JeffBhutto, FatimaBiden, JoeBieber, JustinBiffle, GregBikila, AbebeBiles, SimoneBinoche, JulietteBisciotti, SteveBjörnson, BjørnstjerneBjørgen, MaritBjørndalen, Ole EinarBlanchett, CateBlankers-Koen, FannyBlasim, HassanBloomberg, GeorginaBlum, HilaBlunt, EmilyBocelli, AndreaBohr, NielsBolt, UsainBonaparte, NapoleonBorges, Jorge LuisBoseman, ChadwickBosworth, KateBotticelli, SandroBotvinnik, MikhailBouin, JeanBouraoui, NinaBourgeois, LouiseBouvard, PhilippeBowie, DavidBrahms, JohannesBraque, GeorgesBrecht, BertoltBremer, FredrikaBronstein, DavidBronte, AnneBronte, CharlotteBronte, EmilyBrown, Millie BobbyBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, Robertde Bruijn, IngeLe Brun, Élisabeth VigéeBruni, CarlaBruni Tedeschi Jr., ValeriaBruyère, RobinBrynner, YulBrâncuși, ConstantinBuchanan, JamesBuckley, JessieBulawayo, NoVioletBulgakov, MikhailVan Buren, MartinBurroughs, JordanBusfield, TimothyBush, George H. W.Bush, George W.Bush, KateByatt, A.S.Byrne, RoseByron, Lord
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Caesar, JuliusCampbell, Mattdel Campo, EstanislaoCamus, AlbertCapablanca, Jose RaulCaravaggioCarey, MariahCarlsen, MagnusCarlyle, ThomasCarpentier, AlejoCarroll, LewisCarson, RachelCarter, JimmyCartland, BarbaraCaruana, FabianoCash, JohnnyCashman, NellieCassatt, MaryCather, WillaChagall, MarcChalamet, TimothéeChampollion, Jean-FrançoisChan, GemmaChan, JackieChaplin, OonaCharles, RayCharrier, JacquesChatterjee, Bankim ChandraChaudhuri, AmitCheadle, DonChekhov, AntonCheney, DickCheung, MaggieChiang, TedCho, Nam-jooChopin, FrédéricChopin, KateChung, ClarissaChurchill, WinstonCiccone, MadonnaCixin, LiuCixous, HélèneClark, LygiaClaudel, CamilleCleopatraClerk Maxwell, JamesCleveland, GroverClinton, BillClooney, GeorgeCoben, HarlanCocker, JoeCocteau, JeanCoetzee, J. M.Cole, TejuColeridge, Samuel TaylorColumbus, ChristopherCombs, SeanComăneci, NadiaConfuciusConrad, JosephCoolidge, CalvinCortázar, JulioCotillard, MarionCourbet, GustaveCramling, PiaCrick, FrancisCrosby, BingCruz, AngieCruz, PenélopeCurie, MarieCusk, RachelCézanne, Paul
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d'Alpuget, BlancheDafoe, WillemDalí, SalvadorDangarembga, TsitsiDanticat, EdwidgeDarwin, CharlesDarwish, MahmoudDarío, RubénDasgupta, RanaDaudet, AlphonseDavid Friedrich, CasparDavies, RickDay-Lewis, DanielDean, JamesDee, GerryDegas, EdgarDelpy, JulieDeneuve, CatherineDennis, DukeDevi, MahaswetaDiCaprio, LeonardoDickens, CharlesDicker, JoëlDickinson, EmilyDion, CelineDiop, DavidDjebar, Assiado Amaral, TarsilaDomínguez, LeinierDostoevsky, FyodorDoucet, JulieDrakeDressel, CaelebDrummond de Andrade, Carlosdu Châtelet, ÉmilieDucournau, KatiaDumas, AlexandreDumas fils, AlexandreDunaway, FayeDuVernay, AvaDylan, BobDürer, Albrecht
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Eco, UmbertoEddo-Lodge, ReniEdison, ThomasEduardo Agualusa, JoséEdugyan, EsiEgan, JenniferEilish, BillieEinstein, AlbertEisenhower, Dwight D.El Akkad, OmarEl Guerrouj, HichamEl Hachmi, NajatEl Saadawi, NawalElba, IdrisEliot, GeorgeEliot, T. S.Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke"Elytis, OdysseasEmerson, Ralph WaldoEmin, TraceyEndo, ShusakuEnríquez, MarianaErnst, MaxErpenbeck, JennyEsaki, LeoEscobar, PabloEuclidEvaristo, BernardineEvert, ChrisEvora, CesáriaEça de Queirós, José Maria
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Fabian, LaraFaithfull, MarianneFaraday, MichaelFarah, MoFarrokhzad, ForoughFaulkner, WilliamFedoseev, VladimirFelix, AllysonFenty, RihannaFerdinand Meyer, ConradFermi, EnricoFerrante, ElenaFerrat, JeanFetisov, VyacheslavFeynman, RichardFielding, HelenFiennes, RalphFillmore, MillardFine, AnneFirouzja, AlirezaFischer, BirgitFischer, BobbyFitzgerald, EllaFitzgerald, F. ScottFlaubert, GustaveFolorunso, TopeFonda, JaneFonsi, LuisFontane, TheodorFord, Gerald R.Ford, HarrisonFord, HarrisonForna, AminattaFrank, AnneFrankenthaler, HelenFranklin, ArethaFranklin, BenjaminFranklin, RosalindFraser-Pryce, Shelly-AnnFreeman, MorganFreud, LucianFreud, SigmundFrey, JacobFuentes, CarlosFältskog, Agnetha
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Galchen, RivkaGalilei, GalileoGalloway, JaniceGandhi, MahatmaGanguly, Surya ShekharGarbo, GretaGarcía Bernal, GaelGarcía Márquez, GabrielGardner, AvaGarfield, James A.Gary, RomainGates, BillGauguin, PaulGautier, ThéophileGehry, FrankGeisenberger, NatalieGeller, EfimGenet, JeanGentileschi, ArtemisiaGerwig, GretaGhalib, MirzaGhosh, AmitavGiacometti, AlbertoGibaGilbert, MelissaGiri, AnishGlaser, NikkiGleeson, SineadGodard, Jean-Lucvon Goethe, Johann Wolfgangvan Gogh, VincentGogol, NikolaiGoncharov, IvanGoodall, JaneGordimer, NadineGordon-Levitt, JosephGosling, RyanGotthelf, JeremiasDe Goya, FranciscoGrace, PatriciaGrande, ArianaGrant, Ulysses S.Grass, GünterGreen, EvaGreenberg, IsabelGreene, PeterGreenwell, GarthGrint, RupertGrischuk, AlexanderGrisham, JohnGroff, LaurenGuelfenbein, CarlaGuitry, SachaGujrathi, ViditGuo, XiaoluGutenberg, JohannesGyasi, Yaa
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Hamasaki, AyumiHamid, MohsinHamilton, ScottHamsun, KnutHanks, TomHanyu, YuzuruHao, WangHarding, Warren G.Hardy, ThomasHarikrishna, PentalaHarris, JoanneHarris, KamalaHarrison, BenjaminHarrison, William HenryHashmi, ZarinaHawke, MayaHawking, StephenHawthorne, NathanielHayek, SalmaHayes, Rutherford B.Hayworth, RitaHead, BessieHeaney, SeamusHedayat, SadeghHeiden, EricHeine, HeinrichHeisenberg, WernerHemingway, ErnestHeng, ZhangHepburn, AudreyHepworth, BarbaraHernández, JoséHertz, HeinrichHerzog, WernerHesse, HermannHiggins Clark, MaryHighsmith, PatriciaHikmet, NazimHippocratesHiroshige, UtagawaHokusai, KatsushikaHolan, VladimirHolzer, Jennyvan den Hoogenband, PieterHoover, HerbertHopkins, AnthonyHopper, EdwardHopper, GraceHosseini, ShahabHourani, HassanHouston, WhitneyHoward, Elizabeth JaneHoy, ChrisHugo, VictorHumpy, KoneruHuppert, IsabelleHusain, M. F.Hutchinson, IshionHypatia
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Jackson, AndrewJackson, MichaelJacobsen, Jens PeterJames, EttaJames, HenryJames, KiraniJames, MarlonJefferson, ThomasJelloun, Tahar BenJensen, CarstenJiles, PauletteJingjing, GuoJobs, SteveJohnson, AndrewJohnson, Lyndon B.Johnson, MichaelJohnson, ShawnJoly, EvaJoyce, JamesJoyner, FlorenceJoyner-Kersee, JackieJr., Martin Luther King
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Kaas, PatriciaKabakov, IlyaKabbani, RanaKadaré, IsmailKafka, FranzKahlo, FridaKandinsky, WassilyKang, HanKang-ho, SongKanno, YokoKapoor, AnilKapoor, AnishKapuscinski, RyszardKarjakin, SergeyKarpov, AnatolyKarunatilaka, ShehanKasparov, GarryKaur, RupiKavenna, JoannaKawabata, YasunariKawakami, HiromiKawakami, MiekoKeating, RonanKeats, JohnKeller, GottfriedKennedy, John F.Kenny, JasonKepler, JohannesKeres, PaulKertész, ImreKhan, AamirKidman, NicoleKiefer, AnselmKikuchi, RinkoKim, ChloeKinsella, SophieKipchoge, EliudKitajima, KosukeKlee, PaulKlimt, GustavKnausgård, Karl OveKnowles, BeyoncéKo, LisaKollwitz, Käthede Kooning, WillemKorchnoi, ViktorKorneliussen, NiviaqKosteniuk, AlexandraKramnik, VladimirKrasko, IvanKundera, MilanKurniawan, EkaKurosawa, AkiraKusama, YayoiKuti, Fela
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Labisse, FélixLagerkvist, PärLagerlöf, SelmaLahiri, JhumpaLalami, LailaLamarr, HedyLarson, BrieLasker, EmanuelLatynina, LarisaLau, AndyLauper, CindyLaurent, MélanieLavoisier, AntoineLeavitt, KarolineLedecky, KatieLedger, HeathLee, BruceLee, Min JinLeko, Peterde Lempicka, TamaraLennon, JohnLennox, CharlotteLermontov, MikhailLessing, DorisLevy, DeborahLewis, CarlLi, GongLi, YiyunLimón, AdaLincoln, AbrahamLinnaeus, CarlLipinski, TaraLiren, DingLispector, ClariceLiu, LucyLiukin, NastiaLobo Antunes, AntónioLochte, RyanLope de VegaLoren, SofiaLovelace, AdaLuciano, PavarottiLuiselli, ValeriaLutikov, Anatoly
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Ma, LingMachado de Assis, Joaquim MariaMachiavelli, NiccolòMadison, JamesMaduro, NicolásMagritte, ReneMahfouz, NaguibMakeba, MiriamMalagatti, AravindMalek, RamiMallarmé, StéphaneMamdani, ZohranMamedyarov, ShakhriyarMandela, NelsonManet, ÉdouardManiscalco, SebastianMann, ThomasMansfield, KatherineManto, Saadat HasanManuel, SimoneManzoni, AlessandroMaraini, DaciaMarengwa, DambudzoMaria, CallasMarley, BobMarra, AdaMars, BrunoMartinez, OlivierMatesis, PavlosMathieu, NicolasMathis, JohnnyMatisse, HenriMatsuda, AokoMatsumoto, SeichoMaxwell, James ClerkMay-Treanor, MistyMayakovsky, VladimirMbappé, KylianMbougar Sarr, MohamedMbue, ImboloMcCartney, PaulMcClintock, BarbaraMcFadden, FreidaMcKinley, WilliamMebarak, ShakiraMehretu, JulieMeitner, LiseMelchor, FernandaMelo, PatríciaMelville, HermanMenchik, VeraMendel, GregorMendeleev, DmitriMendoza, FernandoMercury, FreddieMeredith, GeorgeMerlant, NoémieMeyer, ClemensMichelangeloMickiewicz, AdamMifune, ToshiroMiller, ArthurMin-sik, ChoiMinxia, WuMirren, HelenMiró, JoanMishima, YukioMistral, GabrielaMitchell, DavidMitchell, JoanMiura, ShionMiyazaki, HayaoMiłosz, CzesławModigliani, AmedeoMoir, ScottMondrian, PietMonet, ClaudeMonroe, JamesMontale, EugenioMoore, HenryMoore, JulianneMoore, SherroneMorante, ElsaMoravia, AlbertoMorisot, BertheMorphy, PaulMorrison, ToniMortensen, ViggoMoshfegh, OttessaMozart, Wolfgang AmadeusMuchá, AlphonseMunaweera, NayomiMunch, EdvardMunro, AliceMurakami, HarukiMurata, SayakaMurray, AndyMurray, LesMusah, YunusMusk, Elonde Musset, AlfredMutu, WangechiMuzichuk, MariyaMuzychuk, AnnaMwanza Mujila, FistonMüller, Herta
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Nabokov, VladimirNaguib, MahfouzNaidu, SarojiniNaipaul, V. S.Nakamura, HikaruNarayan, R.K.Navara, DavidNayeri, DinaNDiaye, MarieNelson, PrinceNenaNepomniachtchi, IanNeruda, PabloNeuman, AndrésNewton, Isaacvan Niekerk, WaydeNietzsche, FriedrichNightingale, FlorenceNin, AnaïsNixon, RichardNobel, AlfredNoem, KristiNoemí, DaríoNoguchi, IsamuNolan, ChristopherNorris, LandoNunn, JohnNurmi, PaavoNyong'o, Lupita
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Pampini, GabinoPamuk, OrhanParadis, VanessaPasternak, BorisPasteur, LouisPatel, DevPaz, OctavioPeixoto, José LuísPellegrini, FedericaPeltz, NicolaPerse, Saint‑JohnPetrosian, TigranPetőfi, SándorPhelps, MichaelPicasso, PabloPierce, FranklinPincent, MatthewPissarro, CamillePitts, JohnyPlanck, MaxPlatoPoe, Edgar AllanPolgar, JudithPolk, JamesPollock, JacksonPolo, MarcoPoniatowska, ElenaPonomariov, RuslanPorter, ColePorter, MaxPortman, NataliePresley, ElvisProulx, AnniePudzianowski, MariuszPushkin, AlexanderPutuma, KolekaPythagorasPérez Galdós, Benito
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Radcliffe, DanielRadjabov, TeimourRahim, TaharRai, AishwaryaRankine, ClaudiaRaphaelRapport, RichardRea, ChrisReade, CharlesReagan, RonaldRedgrave, SteveReeves, KeanuReiche, AriannaReiner, RobRembrandtRenoir, Pierre-AugusteRenó, JeanReonaReyes, DoloresRichard, LittleRichards-Ross, SanyaRichter, Gerhardvan Rijn, RembrandtRiley, BridgetRilke, Rainer MariaRimbaud, ArthurRiner, TeddyRist, José Antonio KastRivera, DiegoRivera, MarianRivers, PhilipRobinson, BettyRockwell, NormanRodin, AugusteRoffey, MoniqueRolland, RomainRooney, SallyRoosevelt, Franklin D.Roosevelt, TheodoreRoss, DianaRoss, LeoneRostand, EdmondRoy, ArundhatiRubinstein, AkibaRudisha, DavidRudolph, WilmaRugero, RolandRukh Khan, ShahRuolin, ChenRushdie, SalmanRyder, WinonaRóżewicz, Tadeusz
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Saeki, SayakaSagan, CarlSaldana, ZoeSalih, TayebSanada, HiroyukiSartre, Jean-PaulSavón, FelixScherbo, VitalySchiele, EgonSchiller, FriedrichSchlossberg, TatianaSchrödinger, ErwinSchweblin, SamantaSeahorn, RheaSebald, W. G.Sebbar, LeïlaSeberg, JeanSeferis, GiorgosSeghers, AnnaSeles, MonicaSelvadurai, ShyamSepetys, RutaSerpell, NamwaliSeurat, GeorgesShafak, ElifShakespeare, WilliamShamsie, KamilaShankland, SamuelSharif, OmarSheeran, EdShelley, Percy ByssheShevchenko, TarasShibli, AdaniaShields, ClaressaShiffrin, MikaelaShikibu, MurasakiShire, WarsanShogdzhiev, RomanShort, NigelShree, GeetanjaliShtotland, KarinaSienkiewicz, HenrykSignac, PaulSigurdsson, SjonSimone, NinaSinatra, FrankSinger Sargent, JohnSitwell, EdithSkarsgard, BirgitSklenar, BrandonSlimani, LeilaSmart, ElizabethSmith, AliSmith, PattiSmith, SamSmyslov, VassilySnow, C. P.So, WesleySocratesSolzhenitsyn, AleksandrSong, Kang-hoSoyinka, WoleSpark, MurielSpassky, BorisSpears, BritneySpitz, MarkStatovci, PajtimStefanova, AntoanetaSteinfeld, HaileeSteinitz, WilhelmStendhalStevenson, Robert LouisStevenson, TeófiloStifter, AdalbertStoker, BramStone, SharonStorm, TheodorStorrie, ConnorStreep, MerylStreisand, BarbraStrindberg, AugustStrug, KerriSwift, TaylorSwinton, TildaSyjuco, MiguelSzymborska, WisławaSzécsi, NoémiSábato, ErnestoSüleymanoğlu, NaimSłowacki, JuliuszSōseki, Natsume
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Taft, William HowardTagawa, Cary-HiroyukiTagore, RabindranathTaimanov, MarkTaro Greenfeld, KarlTauber-Arp, SophieTaylor, BrandonTaylor, ZacharyTegnér, EsaiasTell, DianeTerrin, PeterTesla, NikolaTevetoğlu, TarkanTheron, CharlizeThomas, DylanThompson, DaleyThoreau, Henry DavidThorpe, IanTitianTokarczuk, OlgaTolstoy, LeoTomba, AlbertoTomlin, MikeTopalov, Veselindel Toro, BenicioTorvill, JayneTouqan, FadwaTretiak, VladislavTrouillot, ÉvelyneTrudeau, JustinTruman, Harry S.Trump, DonaldTurgenev, IvanTuring, AlanTurner, WilliamTutu, DesmondTwain, MarkTyler, John
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wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o Jr., NgugiWadsworth Longfellow, HenryWaititi, TaikaWaits, TomWalcott, DerekWaldheim, KurtWalker, AliceWalker, KaraWalls, JeannetteWalsh Jennings, KerriWarton, EdithWashington, DenzelWashington, GeorgeWatanabe, KenWatson, JamesWatson, MaryWatts, NaomiWeisz, RachelWeiwei, AiWells, H.G.Werth, IsabellWestinghouse, GeorgeWhitaker, ForestWhite, PatrickWhite, ShaunWhite, T. H.Whitehead, ColsonWhitman, WaltWhittingham, KyleWilde, OscarWilliams, GrantWilliams, HudsonWilliams, MichelleWilliams, SerenaWilliams, VenusWilson, EdmundWilson, WoodrowWinehouse, AmyWinslet, KateWinterson, JeanetteWitt, KatarinaWonder, StevieWood, GrantWoods, TigerWoolf, VirginiaWordsworth, WilliamWou-Ki, ZaoWu, Chien-ShiungWurtzel, ElizabethWłodarczyk, Anita