What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every October birthday · battle October 3 against another date · all rankings
Who shares October 3
Share of the 55 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Athlete
1981 · Sweden
Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is known for his acrobatic strikes and volleys, technique, ball control, and physical dominance.
Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1969 · United States
Gwen Renée Stefani Shelton is an American singer, songwriter and fashion designer.
Liton Ali, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1983 · United States
Tessa Lynne Thompson is an American actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent dramas, her accolades include nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Sara Komatsu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1973 · United Kingdom
Lena Kathren Headey is a British actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received five Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
pinguino k from North Hollywood, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1973 · Canada
Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canadian actress. Having amassed several credits and accolades over three decades, she emerged as a scream queen in the late 1990s for starring in horror films.
GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1988 · Sweden
Alicia Amanda Vikander is a Swedish actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1938 · Peru
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, also known simply as PPK, is a Peruvian economist, public administrator, and former politician who served as the president of Peru from 2016 to 2018.
Cancillería de Perú, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1975 · United States
Talib Kweli Greene is an American rapper. He is one half of the hip-hop duo Black Star, which he formed in 1997 with fellow Brooklyn rapper Mos Def.
Tuomas Vitikainen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Subway · food and beverage
1947–2015 · United States
Frederick Adrian DeLuca was an American businessman, who was the co-founder and president of the Subway franchise of fast food restaurants with Peter Buck. During his tenure, Subway grew into the largest franchise in the world.
Subway, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1935 · United States
Charles Moss Duke Jr. is an American former astronaut, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot who, as Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, became the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days.
Entrepreneur
1880–1928 · United States
Nora Bayes was an American singer and vaudeville performer who was popular internationally between the 1900s and 1920s. She is credited with co-writing the song "Shine On, Harvest Moon" and performed many successful songs during the First World War, including "Over There".
Unnamed photographer for Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1923–2019 · Indonesia
Eka Tjipta Widjaja or Eka Tjipta Widjaya, born Oei Ek Tjong, was an Indonesian businessman who founded the Sinar Mas Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Indonesia.
October 3 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Creator
1967 · Canada
Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Villeneuve's films have grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide.
Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1984 · United States
Ashley Nicolle Ross-Næss, also known as Ashlee Simpson, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.
Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1954–1990 · United States
Stephen Ray Vaughan, also known abbreviated as SRV, was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.
Bbadventure, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1976 · United States
Seann William Scott is an American actor. In film, Scott is best known for his breakout role as Steve Stifler in the American Pie film series (1999–2012). He also starred in a lead role as Doug Glatt in Goon (2011) and its sequel, Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017).
Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1964 · United Kingdom
Clive Owen is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991.
Alfonso_Cuarón_y_Clive_Owen_(Children_of_men).jpg: Mario Antonio Pena Zapatería derivative work: Jan Arkesteijn (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1925–2012 · United States
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life.
Sporcomutanda, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1994 · Spain
Kepa Arrizabalaga Revuelta, often referred to simply as Kepa, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Arsenal.
Vyacheslav Evdokimov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1996 · Nigeria
Kelechi Promise Iheanacho is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for TFF First League club Bursaspor and the Nigeria national team.
Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1941 · United States
Chubby Checker is an American rock and roll singer and dancer. He is known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the Pony, with his 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time".
The original uploader was ACT1 at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1900–1938 · United States
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1895–1925 · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1978 · Italy
Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio is a Peruvian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently serving as club ambassador for Bayern Munich. He was captain of Peru's national football team, and was its fifth-highest scorer.
Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1983 · Brazil
Frederico Chaves Guedes, known as Fred, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Australian cinematographer
1975 · Australia
Greig Fraser is an Australian cinematographer. He received the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Dune (2021) and two other nominations for Lion (2016) and Dune: Part Two (2024).
Lyn Fairly Media, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1936 · United States
Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons.
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1986 · Colombia
Jackson Arley Martínez Valencia is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
ARN Colombia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1867–1947 · France
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
Pierre Bonnard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1950 · United States
John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, theater director, and filmmaker. He won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Moonstruck.
Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1889–1938 · Germany
Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament.
Author
1981 · France
Leïla Slimani is a French-Moroccan writer and journalist. She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1804–1869 · France
Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, known by the pen name of Allan Kardec, was a French educator, translator, and writer. He is the author of the five books known as the Spiritist Codification, and the founder of Spiritism.
This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b8529781h, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1858–1924 · Kingdom of Sardinia
Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse, often known simply as Duse, was an Italian actress, rated by many as the greatest of her time. She performed in many countries, notably in the plays of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Henrik Ibsen.
Aimé Dupont, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1919–2013 · United States
James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962.
Atlas Network Official website, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1897–1982 · France
Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1978 · Germany
Gerald Asamoah is a German football executive and former professional player who works as the first-team manager of Schalke 04.
Frank Schwichtenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1898–1969 · United States
Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was involved in nearly 200 films, including the critically acclaimed Duck Soup, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Awful Truth, Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary's, My Son John, and An Affair to Remember.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1951 · United States
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions.
NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1944 · Belgium
Pierre René, Viscount Deligne is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 1978 Fields Medal, 1988 Crafoord Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize and 2013 Abel Prize.
Athlete
1981 · Sweden
Jan Andreas Isaksson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Rolandhino1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1886–1914 · France
Henri-Alban Fournier, known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier, was a French author and soldier. He was the author of a novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which has been filmed twice and is considered a classic of French literature. The book is based partly on his childhood.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 55 people born on October 3, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on October 3. Read the full methodology.