3 December Deaths

December 3 is the 337th day of the year (338th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

311 – Diocletian, Roman emperor (b. 244)
649 – Birinus, French-English bishop and saint (b. 600)
860 – Abbo, bishop of Auxerre
937 – Siegfried, Frankish nobleman
978 – Abraham, Coptic pope of Alexandria
1038 – Emma of Lesum, Saxon countess and Saint
1099 – Saint Osmund (b. 1065)
1154 – Pope Anastasius IV (b. 1073)
1265 – Odofredus, Italian lawyer and jurist
1266 – Henry III the White, Duke of Wroclaw
1309 – Henry III, Duke of Głogów (b. 1251/60)
1322 – Maud Chaworth, Countess of Leicester (b. 1282)
1532 – Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1502)
1533 – Vasili III of Russia (b. 1479)
1542 – Jean Tixier de Ravisi, French scholar and academic (b. 1470)
1552 – Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1506)
1592 – Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545)
1610 – Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general and daimyō (b. 1548)
1668 – William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (b. 1591)
1706 – Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (b. 1637)
1765 – Lord John Sackville, English cricketer and politician (b. 1713)
1789 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)
1815 – John Carroll, American archbishop (b. 1735)
1876 – Samuel Cooper, American general (b. 1798)
1882 – Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1811)
1888 – Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
1890 – Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1892 – Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820)
1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1850)
1902 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (b. 1833)
1904 – David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869)
1910 – Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (b. 1821)
1912 – Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1917 – Harold Garnett, English-French cricketer (b. 1879)
1919 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (b. 1841)
1928 – Ezra Meeker, American farmer and politician (b. 1830)
1934 – Charles James O'Donnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1849)
1935 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1868)
1937 – William Propsting, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1861)
1941 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (b. 1883)
1949 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress and educator (b. 1876)
1952 – Rudolf Margolius, Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1913)
1956 – Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1908)
1956 – Alexander Rodchenko, Russian sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer (b. 1891)
1967 – Harry Wismer, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1913)
1972 – William Manuel Johnson, American bassist (b. 1872)
1973 – Emile Christian, American trombonist, cornet player, and composer (b. 1895)
1979 – Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player and coach (b. 1905)
1980 – Oswald Mosley, English lieutenant, fascist, and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1896)
1981 – Walter Knott, American farmer, founded Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889)
1984 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
1989 – Fernando Martín Espina, Spanish basketball player (b. 1962)
1989 – Connie B. Gay, American businessman, founded the Country Music Association (b. 1914)
1993 – Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and academic (b. 1913)
1996 – Georges Duby, French historian and author (b. 1919)
1998 – Pierre Hétu, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1936)
1999 – John Archer, American actor (b. 1915)
1999 – Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1942)
1999 – Madeline Kahn, American actress, comedian, and singer (b. 1942)
1999 – Horst Mahseli, Polish footballer (b. 1934)
1999 – Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
2000 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet and educator (b. 1917)
2000 – Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (b. 1922)
2002 – Adrienne Adams, American illustrator (b. 1906)
2002 – Glenn Quinn, Irish-American actor (b. 1970)
2003 – David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
2003 – Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer (b. 1921)
2004 – Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
2005 – Frederick Ashworth, American admiral (b. 1912)
2005 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2007 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
2008 – Robert Zajonc, Polish-American psychologist and author (b. 1923)
2009 – Leila Lopes, Brazilian actress and journalist (b. 1959)
2009 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British soldier and actor (b. 1919)
2010 – Abdumalik Bahori, Azerbaijani poet and author (b. 1927)
2011 – Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
2012 – Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop (b. 1938)
2012 – Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
2012 – Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2012 – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1980)
2012 – Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (b. 1966)
2013 – Paul Aussaresses, French general (b. 1918)
2013 – Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed, Egyptian air marshal (b. 1952)
2013 – Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet and educator (b. 1929)
2014 – Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
2014 – Jacques Barrot, French politician, French European Commissioner (b. 1937)
2014 – Nathaniel Branden, Canadian–American psychotherapist and author (b. 1930)
2014 – Ian McLagan, English-American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1945)
2014 – James Stewart, Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1941)
2015 – Gladstone Anderson, Jamaican singer and pianist (b. 1934)
2015 – Eevi Huttunen, Finnish speed skater (b. 1922)
2015 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)

Source: wikipedia