The Birthday Gazette

Born on April 3

April 3 birthdays & history

If you were born on April 3, you share a birthday with Marlon Brando, Helmut Kohl and Jane Goodall. April 3 babies are Aries, with diamond as their birthstone and the daisy as their birth flower. April 3 is the 94th day of the year in leap years (93rd in other years).

Famous people born on April 3

  • 1924Marlon Brando, American actor and director
  • 1930Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
  • 1934Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist
  • 1961Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
  • 1783Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian
  • 1922Doris Day, American singer and actress
  • 1958Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host
  • 1982Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
  • 1593George Herbert, English poet
  • 1997Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer

What happened on April 3

  • 1043Edward the Confessor, usually considered to be the last king of the House of Wessex, was crowned King of England.
  • 1721Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming the first de facto prime minister of Great Britain.
  • 1860The Pony Express, a mail service that became the most direct means of long-distance communication across the United States before the first transcontinental telegraph, began operation.
  • 1885Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.
  • 1905Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 1922Joseph Stalin became the first general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • 1933Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre undertook the first successful flight over Mount Everest.
  • 1955The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
  • 1973Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
  • 1984Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be launched into space.
  • 2000In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.
  • 2010Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

Questions, answered

What star sign is April 3?

People born on April 3 are Aries. Their birthstone is diamond and their birth flower is the daisy.

Which famous people were born on April 3?

Marlon Brando (1924), Helmut Kohl (1930), Jane Goodall (1934), Eddie Murphy (1961), Washington Irving (1783), Doris Day (1922) were all born on April 3.

What happened on April 3 in history?

Among other things: in 1984, Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be launched into space; in 2000, In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system; in 2010, Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

Can I get a newspaper front page from April 3?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any April 3 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “April 3”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.