Portal:Literature/Adil archive/May/3
- 1835 - Alfred Austin, English poet born
- 1859 - Andy Adams, American author born
- 1891 - Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet born
- 1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1951 - Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer born