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May 3
- 1695 - Birth of Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
- 1713 - Birth of Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
- 1779 - Death of John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
- 1860 - Birth of John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
- 1860 - Birth of Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1874 - Birth of V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
- 1892 - Birth of George Paget Thomson, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- 1902 - Birth of Alfred Kastler, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1933 - Birth of Steven Weinberg, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1988 - Death of Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
