The 337th day of the year, the 338th in a leap year

Born on 3 December

Every 3 December birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.

Star sign
SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
Birthstone
Turquoise, Zircon, TanzaniteThe 1912 list gave Turquoise and Lapis lazuli.
Birth flower
Narcissus, HollyUsually taken today to mean good wishes and defence.
Most common weekdays
Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 3 December. The marked arc is every position it has held on 3 December, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 3 December in any year.

Which weekday 3 December falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 3 December falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.

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How common a birthday 3 December is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,786 babies were born on 3 December in each year of the twenty, making it the 254th 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 December

18 people born on 3 December, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Polish-British writer
Julianne Moore1960–British-American actress and author
Ozzy Osbourne1948–2025English musician and television personality
Jean-Luc Godard1930–2022French and Swiss film director
David Villa1981–Spanish footballer
Brendan Fraser1968–Canadian-American actor
Amanda Seyfried1985–American actress
France Prešeren1800–1849Slovene poet
Rajendra Prasad1884–1963Indian statesman, lawyer and writer; first President of India
Manne Siegbahn1886–1978Swedish physicist
Charles VI of France1368–1422King of France from 1380 to 1422
Bayezid II1447–1512the eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481–1512)
Paul J. Crutzen1933–2021Dutch climatologist
Michael Essien1982–Ghanaian footballer
Richard Kuhn1900–1967Austrian-German biochemist
Daryl Hannah1960–American actress and director
Anton Webern1883–1945Austrian composer and conductor
Anna Freud1895–1982Austrian-British psychoanalyst

Died on 3 December

12 people who died on 3 December, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Scottish novelist and poet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841–1919French painter and sculptor
Francis Xavier1506–1552Spanish Catholic saint and missionary
Pope Anastasius IVdied 1154Pope from 1153 to 1154
Carl Zeiss1816–1888German optician and scientific instrument maker
Vasili III of Russia1479–1533Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1505 to 1533
Mary Baker Eddy1821–1910American founder of Christian Science
Dhyan Chand1905–1979Indian field hockey player
Oswald Mosley1896–1980British aristocrat and fascist politician
Scatman John1942–1999American musician
Alexander Rodchenko1891–1956Russian artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer
Dev Anand1923–2011Indian actor, producer, director

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