Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 3

Births

 * 106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
 * 1793 - Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist (d. 1880) (pictured)
 * 1879 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
 * 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
 * 1905 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d. 1986)
 * 1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
 * 1932 - Dabney Coleman, American actor
 * 1946 - John Paul Jones, British musician and songwriter (Led Zeppelin)
 * 1956 - Mel Gibson, American actor

Deaths

 * 1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
 * 1903 - Alois Hitler, Adolf Hilter's father (b. 1837)
 * 1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
 * 1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)