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Today is Sunday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2010. There are 242 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

1294 – John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1342 – Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
1382 – Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
1455 – Jews flee Spain
1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1494 – Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it “St Iago”
1512 – 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1512 – Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1515 – Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
1616 – Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
1621 – Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1624 – Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
1629 – French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
1640 – English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
1654 – Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
1660 – Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
1661 – Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1662 – Royal charter granted Connecticut
1678 – French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
1715 – Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon “Baily’s Beads”
1722 – Pierre de Marivaux’ “La Double Inconstance,” premieres in Paris
1747 – Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1765 – 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city
1808 – Goya’s “Executions of 3rd of May”
1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill.
1810 – Lord Byron swims Hellespont
1815 – Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
1822 – Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1830 – 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1837 – The University of Athens is founded.
1845 – 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
1845 – Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846 – Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
1851 – Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
1855 – Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1860 – Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1861 – Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1861 – Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 – Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
1863 – Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye’s Heights)
1863 – Battle of Salem Church, VA
1864 – 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana: Confederate assault
1867 – The Hudson’s Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1886 – M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
1898 – Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
1900 – 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06.25
1901 – Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
1902 – 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
1903 – AVC Heracles (SC Heracles ’74) soccer team forms in Almelo
1906 – British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1909 – 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
1916 – The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
1917 – 1st performance of Ernest Bloch’s symphony “Israel”
1919 – Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 – America’s 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1921 – West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
1922 – Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 – Salt layer find at Winterswijk
1923 – 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
1924 – Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber.
1926 – British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1926 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1926 – US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
1928 – Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1929 – Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 – 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
1933 – 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1934 – Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours
1936 – French People’s Front wins elections
1936 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 – Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With the Wind”
1938 – Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use
1938 – Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn’t lose there until May 12 1941
1938 – Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1941 – -4] German air raid on Liverpool
1941 – 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
1942 – Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 – Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 – Nazi’s execute 72 OD’ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
1942 – Nazi’s require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1943 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon’s Teeth)
1943 – Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1943 – US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1944 – “Meet Me in St Louis” opens on Broadway
1944 – Meat rationing ends in US
1945 – 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 – Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1945 – British troop join in Rangoon
1945 – German ship “Cap Arcona” sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1946 – International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1947 – 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1947 – Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 – Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
1949 – 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1951 – Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1951 – NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1951 – London’s Royal Festival Hall opens.
1951 – The Festival of Britain opens.
1952 – “Call Me Madam” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
1952 – 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1952 – 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
1953 – WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 – Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims “Freedom to Read”
1954 – KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
1954 – WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 – “Most Happy Fella” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
1956 – A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000′)
1956 – Frank Loesser’s musical “Most Happy Fella,” premieres in NYC
1958 – 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
1958 – WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1959 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
1959 – Tiger’s Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
1960 – Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones’ musical “Fantasticks,” premieres in NYC
1960 – The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1961 – Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1962 – Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
1963 – Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1963 – Martin Luther King Jr delivers his “I have a dream” speech
1964 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational
1965 – 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1965 – 3rd Mayor’s Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
1965 – Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1965 – Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (LA Calif)
1965 – KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1965 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1966 – WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 – Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
1968 – Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
1969 – “Trumpets of the Lord” closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 perfs
1969 – 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
1970 – 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1970 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1971 – All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1971 – Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 – National Public Radio begins programming
1971 – Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1971 – Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1973 – Chicago’s Sears Tower, world’s tallest building (443 m), topped out
1973 – KC Royals’ George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
1975 – 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
1975 – Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
1976 – Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
1976 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt’s Gift)
1978 – “Sun Day” – solar energy events are held in US
1978 – Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
1978 – Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
1978 – WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game
1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as “spam”) is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1979 – 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1979 – Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
1979 – Martin Sherman’s “Bent,” premieres in London
1980 – 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
1980 – Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
1980 – Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
1981 – “Can-Can” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1981 – “Moony, Shapiro Songbook” opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
1981 – Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women’s Golf International
1982 – ABC’s All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
1982 – NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA’s budget
1982 – Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1983 – Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
1983 – Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 – US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1985 – Date of $5 million check in “View to a Kill”
1986 – 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
1986 – Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
1986 – Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
1986 – NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
1986 – NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
1987 – “Mikado” closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
1987 – Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 – Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
1988 – 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
1988 – Jasper Johns’ “Diver” sold for $4,200,000
1991 – Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
1991 – 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
1991 – The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
1992 – Balt’s Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
1992 – Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
1992 – Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1992 – NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
1992 – Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
1992 – Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
1993 – “Kiss of the Spider Woman” opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 perfs
1994 – 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
1994 – D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994 – US space probe Clementine launched
1995 – “My Thing of Love” opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
1995 – Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1995 – David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
1996 – Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks v Glam
1997 – 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
1997 – ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen
1997 – Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
1998 – wins Titleholders Golf Championship
1999 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
1999 – Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 – A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003 – New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
2006 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
2006 – Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.
2007 – British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

Birthdays

612 – Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1415 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
1428 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
1446 – Margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie
1446 – Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503)
1469 – Niccolo Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince)
1514 – Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal
1535 – Alessandro “Agnolo” Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer
1647 – John A “Joannes” Antonides van der Goes, poet (Bellone aen bant)
1649 – Johann Valentin Meder, composer
1662 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1736)
1692 – Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51)
1695 – Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
1708 – Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer
1713 – Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
1729 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
1737 – Friedrich Schwindl, composer
1742 – Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer
1744 – Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
1752 – Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
1761 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
1764 – Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis XVI
1768 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
1773 – Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
1815 – Hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist
1816 – Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892
1819 – Nicola De Giosa, composer
1826 – Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
1844 – Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
1844 – Richard D’Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
1849 – Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)
1849 – Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1857 – George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1859 – Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
1860 – John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
1860 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
1861 – Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
1867 – Jack Hearne, cricketer (cousin of George & Alec 12 Tests for Eng)
1870 – Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
1873 – Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs [OS]
1873 – [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den)
1873 – Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1874 – Francois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
1874 – V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
1876 – Bert Hopkins, cricketer (Australian pace bowler of the 1900′s)
1876 – John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer, cricketer (Sussex)
1877 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
1879 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (d. 1950)
1886 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1888 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
1890 – B Traven, writer
1891 – Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
1892 – Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It’s a Wonderful Life)
1892 – George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
1893 – Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN
1893 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
1895 – Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
1895 – Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
1895 – Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
1896 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
1896 – Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917)
1897 – V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
1898 – Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
1898 – Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator
1899 – Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
1901 – Gino Cervi, Bologna Italy, actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja)
1902 – Hugo Friedhofer, composer
1902 – Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
1902 – Seton I Miller, Chehalis WA, writer (Pete’s Dragon, Istanbul)
1902 – Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
1903 – Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas, Going My Way)
1904 – Charles “Red” Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
1904 – John Breeden, SF CA, actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street)
1905 – Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria
1905 – Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste)
1906 – Mary Astor, Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky)
1907 – Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
1910 – Alceo Galliera, composer
1910 – Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer
1911 – John Rhea “Yank” Lawson, trumpeter
1912 – Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
1913 – Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
1913 – William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
1915 – Evencio Castellanos, composer
1915 – Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003)
1916 – Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961- )
1916 – Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
1916 – Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (d. 2006)
1917 – James Penberthy, composer
1917 – Betty Comden, American lyricist (d. 2006)
1918 – Ted Bates, English former footballer (d. 2003)
1919 – Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)
1919 – Pete Seeger, NYC, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
1919 – John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
1920 – Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ)
1921 – Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, Portuguese leftist colonel
1921 – Joe Ames, American singer (d. 2007)
1922 – Marina Svetlova, ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)
1922 – Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1923 – Ralph M Hall, (Rep-D-TX, 1981- )
1923 – George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor
1924 – Mary Carver, LA Calif, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
1924 – Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000)
1924 – Ken Tyrrell, English founder of eponymous F1 racing team (d. 2001)
1925 – Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
1928 – James Brown, Augusta Ga, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)
1928 – Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
1929 – Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
1929 – Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist
1930 – David Evatt Tunley, composer
1931 – Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer
1932 – Robert Osborne, American film historian
1933 – Collie Smith, cricketer (exciting WI all-rounder all too briefly)
1933 – James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
1933 – Alex Cord, American actor
1934 – Georg Kroll, composer
1934 – Henry Cooper, English boxer
1934 – Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
1935 – Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89)
1935 – Ron Popeil, American inventor
1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnolde Dorsey], India, singer (EH Show)
1937 – Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1937 – Nélida Piñon, Brazilian writer
1938 – Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player
1939 – Jonathan David Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
1939 – Jose Torres, US, boxer (Olympics)
1939 – Samantha Eggar, London England, actress (Collector)
1940 – Konrad “Conny” Plank, German record producer and musician
1940 – Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager
1941 – Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women’s chess champ (1962-78)
1941 – Edward “Monk” Malloy, American university president
1942 – Lynn Farleigh, Bristol England, actress (Lovers of Their Time)
1942 – Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast
1942 – Dave Marash, American journalist
1942 – C.L. Otter, American politician, governor of Idaho
1943 – John Costello, historian
1944 – Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist
1944 – Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 – Sadiq Mohammad, cricketer (attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81)
1946 – Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
1946 – Norm Chow, American football coach
1947 – Doug Henning, Ft Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
1948 – Chris Mulkey, American actor
1949 – Albert Sacco Jr, Boston Mass, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1949 – Ron Wyden, (Rep-D-OR, 1981- )
1950 – Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
1951 – Christopher Cross, [Geppert], Texas, singer (Sailing, Arthur’s Theme)
1951 – Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
1952 – Allen Wells, England, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980)
1952 – Caitlin Clarke. American actress (d. 2004)
1953 – Bruce Hall, Champaign Ill, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
1953 – Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
1954 – Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement)
1955 – David Hookes, cricketer (dashing Australian LHB, S Aussie stalwart)
1955 – Steve Jones, English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy)
1955 – Timmy Cappello, rock & sax player (played with Tina Turner, Ringo Starr & The Lost Boys)
1956 – Marc Bellemare, French Canadian lawyer and politician
1957 – Cactus Moser, Montrose Co, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1957 – Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Wash Caps)
1958 – Kevin Kilner, American actor
1958 – Sandi Toksvig, Danish comedian and radio presenter
1959 – Ben Elton, London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night Live)
1959 – David Ball, Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)
1959 – Uma Bharati, Indian politician
1959 – Ben Elton, British comedian and author
1960 – Amy Steel, American actress
1961 – Steve McClaren, English football manager
1961 – Joe Murray, American cartoonist
1961 – David Vitter American politician
1962 – Anthony Gilligan, Penrith NSW, Australasia golfer
1962 – Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
1963 – Jeff Hornacek, NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1963 – Jamie Reeves, British strongman
1963 – Sally Whittaker, English actress
1964 – Ron Hextall, Winnipeg, NHL goalie (Phila Flyers, NY Islanders)
1965 – Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian
1965 – Nina Garcia, Colombian-American fashion expert and television personality
1965 – John Jensen, Danish footballer
1966 – Paul Stevenson, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1966 – Peter Abbay, American actor
1966 – Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor
1966 – Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
1968 – Deborah Caprioglio, Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter)
1968 – Jay Darlington, London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker)
1968 – Shane Minor, American singer
1969 – Karen Kraft, San Mateo Calif, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 – Daryl F. Mallett, American writer/editor
1970 – Alexia Dechaume-Ballert, La Rochelle France, tennis star (1992 Aust)
1970 – Ted Crowley, Concord Mass, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1971 – James Roberson, defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
1971 – Damon Dash, American label executive
1971 – Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva)
1972 – Brett Hayman, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 – Josh Taves, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1972 – Vyacheslav Kozlov, Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Detroit Red Wings)
1972 – Shonie Carter, American MMA fighter
1972 – Suzi Suzuki, former Japanese adult actress
1973 – Dominique Monami, Verviers Belgium, tennis star
1973 – Michel Traveller, soccer player (Ajax)
1974 – Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan
1975 – Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
1975 – Eva Santolaria, Spanish actress
1975 – Dulé Hill, American actor
1976 – Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
1977 – Mashima Hiro, Japanese Mangaka of Rave Master and Fairy Tail
1977 – Ryan Dempster, American baseball player
1978 – Paul Banks, American vocalist (Interpol)
1978 – Christina Hendricks, American actress
1978 – Lawrence Tynes, American football player
1979 – Steve Mack, American professional wrestler
1980 – Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef)
1981 – Farrah Franklin, American singer (former member of Destiny’s Child)
1982 – Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-born American football player
1983 – Joseph Addai, American football player
1983 – Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer
1983 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer
1983 – Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer
1984 – Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer
1984 – Nam Sang-mi, South Korean actress and model
1985 – Greg Raposo, American pop/rock singer

Deaths in History for 3rd May

1010 – Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69
1152 – Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)
1160 – Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)
1270 – King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
1294 – Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
1410 – Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta’s Pope (1409-10), dies
1442 – Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
1481 – Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
1567 – Leonhard Paminger, composer, dies at 72
1598 – Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
1606 – Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
1614 – Sasbout Vosmeer, RC theologist/apostole vicar, dies at 66
1622 – Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
1654 – Francois van Kinschot, treasurer-gen/chancellor of Brabant, dies at 77
1679 – James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
1693 – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
1703 – Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies
1704 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian violist/composer, dies at 59
1707 – Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet, dies at 53
1724 – John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
1737 – Abraham Patras, gov-gen of East-Indies (1735-37), dies at 65
1750 – John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
1752 – Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c. 1692)
1758 – Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope (1740-58), dies at 83
1763 – George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. 1679)
1764 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53
1779 – John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
1783 – Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49
1792 – Carlo Zuccari, composer, dies at 87
1839 – Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 67
1841 – Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
1854 – William Beale, composer, dies at 70
1856 – Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27
1856 – Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
1861 – Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80
1863 – Elisha Franklin “Bull” Paxton, US Confederate brig-gen, dies at 35
1868 – Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer, dies at 68
1881 – Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
1893 – Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
1902 – David R Capriles, Curacaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64
1910 – Artie Shaw, bandleader
1917 – Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
1918 – Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary
1921 – Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
1926 – Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne, dies at 63
1931 – Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
1931 – Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer, dies at 93
1932 – Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51
1939 – [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71
1942 – Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed
1942 – Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1943 – Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45
1945 – Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
1955 – Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
1958 – Frank Foster, cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12), dies
1961 – Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies at 53
1964 – Diana Wynyard, dies at 58
1965 – Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
1965 – Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
1966 – Wylie Watson, dies at 77
1968 – Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86
1969 – Imre Vincze, composer, dies at 42
1969 – Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
1970 – Candelario Huizar, composer, dies at 82
1972 – Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
1972 – Les Harvey, rocker, dies
1975 – Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross), dies at 78
1976 – David Bruce, dies at 62
1976 – Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford), dies at 72
1978 – Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 71
1979 – Erin O’Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1982 – Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
1983 – Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal hemmorrhage at 72
1986 – Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
1987 – Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test for WI 1935, one run, 0-12), dies
1987 – Yolande Christina Dalida, dies at 54
1988 – Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1989 – Christine Jorgensen, 1st transsexual, dies at 62
1989 – Muriel Ostriche, dies
1989 – Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
1990 – Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79
1991 – Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
1991 – Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57
1991 – Margaret Tallichet, actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor), dies
1991 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
1992 – Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98
1992 – George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71)/actor, dies of Leukemia at 89
1992 – Peter Bruni, dies of heart failure at 60
1994 – Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78
1994 – Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
1994 – Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
1994 – Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children’s books, dies at 74
1995 – Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83
1996 – Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
1996 – Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach, dies at 45
1997 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)
1999 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1999 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
2000 – John Joseph Cardinal O’Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
2001 – Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)
2002 – Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
2002 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
2003 – Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
2004 – Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
2004 – Ken Downing, British racing driver (b. 1917)
2004 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
2006 – Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2006 – Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
2007 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
2007 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
2008 – Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (b. 1926)
2009 – Ram Shewalkar, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest.(b.1931)