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.
Where the sun stands on 3 June. The marked arc is every position it has held on 3 June, 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 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.

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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

18 people born on 3 June, 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
Rafael Nadal1986–Spanish tennis player
Raúl Castro1931–former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
George V1865–1936King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
Josephine Baker1906–1975American-born French dancer, singer and actress
Allen Ginsberg1926–1997American poet and writer
Jefferson Davis1808–1889President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
Tony Curtis1925–2010American actor
Jill Biden1951–American educator and First Lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025
Yelena Isinbayeva1982–Russian female Olympic pole-vaulter
Mario Götze1992–German association football player
Paulette Goddard1910–1990American actress
Alain Resnais1922–2014French film director
James Hutton1726–1797Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist; born 3 June in the Julian calendar, which is 14 June in the Gregorian
Lawrence Lessig1961–American academic, political activist
Georg von Békésy1899–1972Hungarian physicist
Werner Arber1929–Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
Frederick VIII of Denmark1843–1912King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912
Otto Loewi1873–1961Jewish-German pharmacologist

Died on 3 June

12 people who died on 3 June, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Franz Kafka1883–1924Bohemian writer from Prague
Muhammad Ali1942–2016American boxer
Pope John XXIII1881–1963pope of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963
Ruhollah Khomeini1900–1989Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
Georges Bizet1838–1875French composer
William Harvey1578–1657English physician
Johann Strauss II1825–1899Austrian composer
Nikolay Karamzin1766–1826Russian writer, poet, critic
Frans Eemil Sillanpää1888–1964Finnish writer
Anthony Quinn1915–2001Mexican and American actor
Eisaku Satō1901–1975Prime Minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972
Nâzım Hikmet1902–1963Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist

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