The 215th day of the year, the 216th in a leap year
Born on 3 August
Every 3 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 3 August in any year.
Which weekday 3 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 3 August falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 3 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,837 babies were born on 3 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 105th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 3 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| James Hetfield | 1963– | American guitarist and singer |
| Evangeline Lilly | 1979– | Canadian actress |
| Habib Bourguiba | 1903–2000 | Tunisian politician |
| Stanley Baldwin | 1867–1947 | British statesman |
| Martin Sheen | 1940– | American actor |
| Haakon VII | 1872–1957 | King of Norway from 1905 to 1957 |
| Tony Bennett | 1926–2023 | American singer |
| Koichi Tanaka | 1959– | Japanese chemist |
| Abhisit Vejjajiva | 1964– | Thai politician |
| Frederick William III | 1770–1840 | King of Prussia from 1797 to 1840 |
| Sunil Chhetri | 1984– | Indian football player |
| Tom Brady | 1977– | American football player |
| Alfred Deakin | 1856–1919 | Australian politician |
| Jonas Savimbi | 1934–2002 | Angolan political and military leader |
| Jules Bianchi | 1989–2015 | French motor racing driver |
| Martha Stewart | 1941– | American businesswoman, writer, TV personality |
| Osvaldo Ardiles | 1952– | Argentine association football player and manager |
| Brahim Díaz | 1999– | Moroccan association football player |
Died on 3 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1918–2008 | Soviet and Russian writer and dissident |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857–1924 | Polish-British writer |
| Colette | 1873–1954 | French novelist |
| Richard Willstätter | 1872–1942 | German chemist |
| Konstantin Rokossovsky | 1896–1968 | Soviet and Polish military commander |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson | 1908–2004 | French photographer |
| John Hume | 1937–2020 | Irish politician from Northern Ireland |
| Bertil Ohlin | 1899–1979 | Swedish economist and politician |
| Thorstein Veblen | 1857–1929 | American economist and sociologist |
| James II of Scotland | 1430–1460 | King of Scotland from 1437 to 1460 |
| Makarios III | 1913–1977 | Archbishop of Cyprus and the first President of Cyprus |
| Flannery O'Connor | 1925–1964 | American writer |
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