Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 3

Births

 * 1808 - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)
 * 1865 - King George V of the United Kingdom (pictured) (d. 1936)
 * 1906 - Josephine Baker, American dancer, singer, and actress (d. 1975)
 * 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
 * 1965 - Mike Gordon, Bassist for Phish, filmmaker
 * 1966 - Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
 * 1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
 * 1986 - Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player

Deaths

 * 1657 - William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
 * 1861 - Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (b. 1813)
 * 1875 - Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
 * 1899 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
 * 1924 - Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist (b. 1883)
 * 1963 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
 * 2016 - Muhammad Ali (b. 1942)

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