Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 3

Births

• 1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847) (pictured)
• 1811 - Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)
• 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)
• 1894 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)

Deaths

• 1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher
• 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
• 1959 - Also known as The Day the Music Died because of the deaths of:
  • Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
  • Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
  • J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)