On This Day
January 3
| Event | Source | Birth | Death | Name | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| born | bornToday | 1956 | Mel Gibson | US Actor |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1892 | 1973 | J. R. R. Tolkien | English Novelist |  |
| born | bornToday | 1969 | Michael Schumacher | German retired racing driver. |  | |
| born | bornToday | 106 | 43 | Cicero | Roman writer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1885 | 1931 | Anna Pavlova | Russian dancer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1939 | Bobby Hull | Canadian Athlete |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1883 | 1967 | Clement Attlee | English Leader |  |
| born | bornToday | 1986 | Dana Hussein | Iraqi Athlete |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1897 | 1987 | Pola Negri | Polish Actress |  |
| born | bornToday | 1944 | Robert Lacey | British Historian |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1917 | 2002 | Vernon A. Walters | US Soldier |  |
| born | bornToday | 1698 | 1782 | Pietro Metastasio | Italian writer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1793 | 1880 | Lucretia Coffin Mott | US social reformer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1884 | 1957 | Josephine Hull | US actor |  |
| born | bornToday | 1897 | 1961 | Marion Davies | US actor |  |
| born | bornToday | 1898 | 1963 | ZaSu Pitts | US actor |  |
| born | bornToday | 1909 | 2000 | Victor Borge | Danish entertainer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1945 | Stephen Stills | US singer-songwriter |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1952 | Adair Lara | US writer |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1929 | 1989 | Sergio Leone | Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, credited as the inventor of the "Spaghetti Western" genre. |  |
| born | bornToday | 1876 | 1960 | Wilhelm Pieck | German politician and a Communist. In 1949, he became the first President of the German Democratic Republic, an office abolished upon his death. |  |