Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 3

Births

 * 1783 – Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859) (pictured)
 * 1880 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (d. 1903)
 * 1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
 * 1924 – Doris Day, American actress (d. 2019)
 * 1930 – Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
 * 1944 – Tony Orlando, American musician
 * 1958 – Alec Baldwin, American actor

Deaths

 * 1882 – Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
 * 1897 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
 * 1950 – Carter G. Woodson, African American historian, author, journalist and the founder of Black History Month (b. 1875)