What happened on April 3 ?

33 - Jesus, central figure of Christianity (traditional dating) (b. 1 BC, traditionally)

963 - William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)

1287 - Pope Honorius IV

1350 - Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)

1606 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)

1680 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)

1682 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)

1691 - Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)

1695 - Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter

1717 - Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)

1728 - James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662)

1792 - George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)

1792 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (b. 1718)

1827 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1856)

1849 - Juliusz S?owacki, Polish poet (b. 1809)

1868 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796)

1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)

1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)

1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, British impresario (b. 1844)

1931 - Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer (b. 1853)

1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)

1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899)

1950 - Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)

1952 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister (b. 1866)

1965 - Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter

1971 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)

1972 - Ferde Grofé, American composer (b. 1882)

1982 - Warren Oates, American character actor (b. 1928)

1986 - Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)

1987 - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)

1990 - Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)

1991 - Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)

1991 - Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)

1993 - Pinky Lee, American children's television host (b. 1907)

1996 - Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)

1996 - Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1927)

1998 - Rob Pilatus, American entertainer and criminal (Milli Vanilli) (b. 1965)

2000 - Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)

2002 - Frank Tovey (aka Fad Gadget), British singer and musician (b. 1956)

2005 - Tony Croatto, Italian-born singer (b. 1940)