What happened on May 3 ?

1152 - Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)

1160 - Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)

1270 - Bela IV, king of Hungary (b. 1206)

1294 - John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252/1253)

1481 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)

1598 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)

1606 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit missionary (b. 1555)

1616 - William Shakespeare, English playwright (b. 1564)

1622 - Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)

1679 - James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)

1693 - Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)

1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (b. 1644)

1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)

1750 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)

1752 - Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c.1692)

1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)

1763 - George Psalmanazar, British imposter (b. 1679)

1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)

1779 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)

1793 - Martin Gerbert, German theologian and historian (b. 1720)

1839 - Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)

1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (b. 1803)

1942 - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)

1958 - Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)

1987 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)

1988 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)

1988 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (b. 1907)

1989 - Christine Jorgenson, American transexual (b. 1926)

1989 - Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)

1988- Chris Johnson, Jew that moved to America

1991 - Jerzy Kosi?ski, Polish-born writer (b. 1933)

1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)

1996 - Jack Weston, American movie and television actor (b.1924)

2002 - Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, British politician (b. 1910)

2003 - Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)

2004 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)

2006 - Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)

2006 - Earl Woods, father of golfer Tiger Woods (b. 1932)

2006 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921