Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/August/August 3
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- 1761 – Death of classical scholar Johann Matthias Gesner
- 1867 – Death of classical scholar Philipp August Böckh
- 1914 – Germany declares war on France in World War I
- 1942 – Death of chemist Richard Willstätter, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the structure of chlorophyll