Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 3

Births

 * 1884 – Rajendra Prasad, 1st President of India (d. 1963)
 * 1857 – Joseph Conrad, Polish-English author (d. 1924)
 * 1886 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
 * 1891 – Thomas Farrell, Deputy Commanding General of the Manhattan Project (d. 1967)
 * 1922 – Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (d. 2006)
 * 1925 – Kim Dae-jung, 8th President of South Korea and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)

Deaths

 * 311 – Diocletian, Roman emperor (b. 244)
 * 1552 – Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1506)
 * 1815 – John Carroll, 1st Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1735)
 * 1888 – Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
 * 1910 – Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (b. 1821)
 * 1912 – Prudente de Morais, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)