The 3rd day of the year
Born on 3 January
Every 3 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Capricorn, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CapricornEarth, cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Tuesday16 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 January in any year.
Which weekday 3 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 3 January falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Tuesday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Sunday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 3 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,795 babies were born on 3 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 224th 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 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892–1973 | English writer and philologist |
| Cicero | 106–43 BC | Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher |
| Michael Schumacher | 1969– | German racing driver |
| Greta Thunberg | 2003– | Swedish climate protection activist |
| Mel Gibson | 1956– | American actor, director, producer and screenwriter |
| Clement Attlee | 1883–1967 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 |
| Sergio Leone | 1929–1989 | Italian filmmaker |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | 1901–1963 | South Vietnamese politician; President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963 |
| Jisoo | 1995– | South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and model |
| August Macke | 1887–1914 | German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter |
| Florence Pugh | 1996– | British actress |
| Pietro Metastasio | 1698–1782 | Italian poet and librettist |
| Gordon Moore | 1929–2023 | American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation |
| Wilhelm Pieck | 1876–1960 | German communist politician, President of East Germany from 1949 to 1960 |
| Ray Milland | 1907–1986 | British actor |
| Yoichiro Kakitani | 1990– | Japanese association football player |
| Jonny Evans | 1988– | Northern Irish association football player |
| John Paul Jones | 1946– | British bassist |
Died on 3 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jaroslav Hašek | 1883–1923 | Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist |
| Qasem Soleimani | 1957–2020 | Iranian military officer |
| Pope Anterus | died 236 | Pope and Bishop of Rome from 235 to 236 |
| Ali-Shir Nava'i | 1441–1501 | Turkic poet and politician |
| Joseph Joffre | 1852–1931 | French general |
| Philip V of France | died 1322 | King of France and Navarre (r. 1316-1322) |
| Alois Hitler | 1837–1903 | Austrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler |
| Joseph Wirth | 1879–1956 | German chancellor |
| Jack Ruby | 1911–1967 | American nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 |
| Wilhelm Cuno | 1876–1933 | German chancellor |
| Edgar Cayce | 1877–1945 | purported clairvoyant healer and psychic |
| Pat Hingle | 1924–2009 | American actor |
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