| 113071 | October 3 | Birth | 1888 – Wade Boteler, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1943) |
| 113072 | October 3 | Birth | 1889 – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938) |
| 113073 | October 3 | Birth | 1894 – Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1982) |
| 113074 | October 3 | Birth | 1894 – Walter Warlimont, German general (d. 1976) |
| 113075 | October 3 | Birth | 1895 – Giovanni Comisso, Italian author and poet (d. 1969) |
| 113076 | October 3 | Birth | 1895 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925) |
| 113077 | October 3 | Birth | 1896 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic (d. 1987) |
| 113078 | October 3 | Birth | 1897 – Louis Aragon, French author and poet (d. 1982) |
| 113079 | October 3 | Birth | 1898 – Leo McCarey, American director and screenwriter (d. 1969) |
| 113080 | October 3 | Birth | 1898 – Adolf Reichwein, German economist and educator (d. 1944) |
| 113081 | October 3 | Birth | 1899 – Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer (d. 1966) |
| 113082 | October 3 | Birth | 1900 – Thomas Wolfe, American author and academic (d. 1938) |
| 113083 | October 3 | Birth | 1901 – Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter (d. 1959) |
| 113084 | October 3 | Birth | 1904 – Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (d. 1998) |
| 113085 | October 3 | Birth | 1905 – Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey (d. 1993) |
| 113086 | October 3 | Birth | 1906 – Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (d. 1997) |
| 113087 | October 3 | Birth | 1908 – Johnny Burke, American songwriter (d. 1964) |
| 113088 | October 3 | Birth | 1911 – Michael Hordern, English actor and singer (d. 1995) |
| 113089 | October 3 | Birth | 1915 – Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004) |
| 113090 | October 3 | Birth | 1916 – James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995) |
| 113091 | October 3 | Birth | 1919 – James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) |
| 113092 | October 3 | Birth | 1919 – Jean Lefebvre, French-Moroccan actor (d. 2004) |
| 113093 | October 3 | Birth | 1921 – Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1996) |
| 113094 | October 3 | Birth | 1923 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Dominica (d. 2004) |
| 113095 | October 3 | Birth | 1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) |
| 113096 | October 3 | Birth | 1924 – Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter and coach (d. 2012) |
| 113097 | October 3 | Birth | 1925 – Gore Vidal, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2012) |
| 113098 | October 3 | Birth | 1925 – George Wein, American pianist and producer, co-founded the Newport Folk Festival |
| 113099 | October 3 | Birth | 1928 – Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986) |
| 113100 | October 3 | Birth | 1928 – Edward L. Moyers, American businessman (d. 2006) |