| 87781 | August 3 | Birth | 1988 – Denny Cardin, Italian footballer |
| 87782 | August 3 | Birth | 1988 – Leigh Tiffin, American football player |
| 87783 | August 3 | Birth | 1989 – Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (d. 2015) |
| 87784 | August 3 | Birth | 1989 – Sam Hutchinson, English footballer |
| 87785 | August 3 | Birth | 1989 – Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer |
| 87786 | August 3 | Birth | 1990 – Jourdan Dunn, English model |
| 87787 | August 3 | Birth | 1990 – Shunya Shiraishi, Japanese actor |
| 87788 | August 3 | Birth | 1992 – Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner |
| 87789 | August 3 | Birth | 1992 – Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner |
| 87790 | August 3 | Birth | 1992 – Karlie Kloss, American model |
| 87791 | August 3 | Birth | 1992 – Diāna Marcinkēviča, Latvian tennis player |
| 87792 | August 3 | Birth | 1992 – Aljon Mariano, Filipino basketball player |
| 87793 | August 3 | Birth | 1992 – Lum Rexhepi, Finnish footballer |
| 87794 | August 3 | Birth | 1993 – Ola Abidogun, English sprinter |
| 87795 | August 3 | Birth | 1993 – Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo and Guardians 4) |
| 87796 | August 3 | Birth | 1994 – Esther Earl, American activist and blogger (d. 2010) |
| 87797 | August 3 | Birth | 1995 – Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player |
| 87798 | August 3 | Birth | 2000 – Landry Bender, American actress |
| 87799 | August 3 | Death | 1460 – James II of Scotland (b. 1430) |
| 87800 | August 3 | Death | 1527 – Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal |
| 87801 | August 3 | Death | 1546 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace (b. 1484) |
| 87802 | August 3 | Death | 1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (b. 1509) |
| 87803 | August 3 | Death | 1562 – John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, English son of Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford (b. 1516) |
| 87804 | August 3 | Death | 1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish commander and diplomat (b. 1540) |
| 87805 | August 3 | Death | 1621 – Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (b. 1556) |
| 87806 | August 3 | Death | 1712 – Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (b. 1654) |
| 87807 | August 3 | Death | 1720 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (b. 1641) |
| 87808 | August 3 | Death | 1721 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor and woodcarver (b. 1648) |
| 87809 | August 3 | Death | 1761 – Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic (b. 1691) |
| 87810 | August 3 | Death | 1773 – Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1700) |