January 3
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January 3 is the third day of the year in the current calendar system we use. When there is not a leap year, there are 362 days after January 3. When there is a leap year, there are 363 days after January 3.
[edit] People who were born
- 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1956 - Mel Gibson
- 1960 - Joan Chen
[edit] People who died
- 1322 - King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
- 1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, first European to visit California (b. 1499)
- 1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. ca. 1619)
- 1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
- 1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
- 1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor and encyclopedist (b. 1817)
- 1881 - Anna McNeill Whistler, Whistler's mother (b. 1804)
- 1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
- 1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
- 1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
- 1946 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
- 1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
- 1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
- 1967 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
- 1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
- 1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist and author (b. 1910)
- 1981 - Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Albany, the last grandchild of Queen Victoria (b. 1883)
- 1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
- 2001 - José Greco, flamenco dancer (b. 1918)
- 2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch CEO of the beer brewery (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
- 2004 - Leon Wagner, MLB All-Star (b. 1934)
- 2005:
- JN Dixit, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary (b. 1936)
- Will Eisner, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist (b. 1917)
- Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator with the PRC (b. 1917)
[edit] Things that happened
- 1959 - Alaska officially becomes a state of the United States.
