The 154th day of the year, the 155th in a leap year
Born on 3 June
Every 3 June birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- Pearl, Moonstone, AlexandriteThe 1912 list gave Pearl and Moonstone.
- Birth flower
- Rose, HoneysuckleUsually taken today to mean love and bonds of affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 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 June in any year.
Which weekday 3 June falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 3 June falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
Showing 3 June in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 3 June is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,817 babies were born on 3 June in each year of the twenty, making it the 162nd 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 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Rafael Nadal | 1986– | Spanish tennis player |
| Raúl Castro | 1931– | former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba |
| George V | 1865–1936 | King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 |
| Josephine Baker | 1906–1975 | American-born French dancer, singer and actress |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926–1997 | American poet and writer |
| Jefferson Davis | 1808–1889 | President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 |
| Tony Curtis | 1925–2010 | American actor |
| Jill Biden | 1951– | American educator and First Lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025 |
| Yelena Isinbayeva | 1982– | Russian female Olympic pole-vaulter |
| Mario Götze | 1992– | German association football player |
| Paulette Goddard | 1910–1990 | American actress |
| Alain Resnais | 1922–2014 | French film director |
| James Hutton | 1726–1797 | Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; born 3 June in the Julian calendar, which is 14 June in the Gregorian |
| Lawrence Lessig | 1961– | American academic, political activist |
| Georg von Békésy | 1899–1972 | Hungarian physicist |
| Werner Arber | 1929– | Swiss microbiologist and geneticist |
| Frederick VIII of Denmark | 1843–1912 | King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912 |
| Otto Loewi | 1873–1961 | Jewish-German pharmacologist |
Died on 3 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Franz Kafka | 1883–1924 | Bohemian writer from Prague |
| Muhammad Ali | 1942–2016 | American boxer |
| Pope John XXIII | 1881–1963 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963 |
| Ruhollah Khomeini | 1900–1989 | Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989 |
| Georges Bizet | 1838–1875 | French composer |
| William Harvey | 1578–1657 | English physician |
| Johann Strauss II | 1825–1899 | Austrian composer |
| Nikolay Karamzin | 1766–1826 | Russian writer, poet, critic |
| Frans Eemil Sillanpää | 1888–1964 | Finnish writer |
| Anthony Quinn | 1915–2001 | Mexican and American actor |
| Eisaku Satō | 1901–1975 | Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972 |
| Nâzım Hikmet | 1902–1963 | Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist |
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