What happened on December 3 ?

1154 - Pope Anastasius IV

1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist

1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1479)

1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)

1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer (b. 1713)

1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (b. 1714)

1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S. (b. 1735)

1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)

1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)

1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)

1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer (b. 1850)

1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (b. 1833)

1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science (b. 1821)

1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)

1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter (b. 1841)

1941 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)

1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)

1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress (b. 1876)

1967 - Harry Wismer, original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)

1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician (b. 1872)

1973 - Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)

1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1905)

1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)

1981 - Walter Knott, farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889)

1996 - Georges Duby, French historian specializing in the Middle Ages (b. 1919)

1999 - Jarl Wahlström, the 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)

1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress and comedian (b. 1942)

1999 - Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)

2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)

2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)

2003 - David Hemmings, British actor (b. 1941)

2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)