| 87571 | August 3 | Event | 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks. |
| 87572 | August 3 | Event | 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia. |
| 87573 | August 3 | Event | 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes President of Iran. |
| 87574 | August 3 | Event | 2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping. |
| 87575 | August 3 | Event | 2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage. |
| 87576 | August 3 | Event | 2014 – A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China. |
| 87577 | August 3 | Birth | 1491 – Maria of Jülich-Berg (d. 1543) |
| 87578 | August 3 | Birth | 1509 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (d. 1546) |
| 87579 | August 3 | Birth | 1692 – John Henley, English minister and poet (d. 1759) |
| 87580 | August 3 | Birth | 1734 – Naungdawgyi, Burmese king (d. 1763) |
| 87581 | August 3 | Birth | 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1840) |
| 87582 | August 3 | Birth | 1803 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace (d. 1865) |
| 87583 | August 3 | Birth | 1808 – Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State (d. 1893) |
| 87584 | August 3 | Birth | 1811 – Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (d. 1861) |
| 87585 | August 3 | Birth | 1817 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (d. 1895) |
| 87586 | August 3 | Birth | 1832 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer, conductor, and director (d. 1914) |
| 87587 | August 3 | Birth | 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (d. 1929) |
| 87588 | August 3 | Birth | 1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic (d. 1926) |
| 87589 | August 3 | Birth | 1856 – Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1919) |
| 87590 | August 3 | Birth | 1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer (d. 1935) |
| 87591 | August 3 | Birth | 1863 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist (d. 1922) |
| 87592 | August 3 | Birth | 1867 – Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947) |
| 87593 | August 3 | Birth | 1871 – Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (d. 1929) |
| 87594 | August 3 | Birth | 1872 – Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957) |
| 87595 | August 3 | Birth | 1886 – Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1964) |
| 87596 | August 3 | Birth | 1887 – Rupert Brooke, English-Greek soldier and poet (d. 1915) |
| 87597 | August 3 | Birth | 1890 – Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club (d. 1974) |
| 87598 | August 3 | Birth | 1891 – Marguerite Nichols, American actress (d. 1941) |
| 87599 | August 3 | Birth | 1894 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1951) |
| 87600 | August 3 | Birth | 1895 – Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician (d. 1942) |