About the day » Wednesday May 3, 1865Calender converter

• Alfred (Twin) SHARMAN, Shotteswell, Oxfordshire. Banbury († 1954)
• Albertje Huiting, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1935)
• Adrianus Fokker, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1869)
• Adriana van Brussel, Langbroek († 1867)
• Abraham de Vlieger, Middelburg, Walcheren, Zeeland, NL
• Adriana Christina van der Wagt, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland († 1871)
• Abraham de Vlieger, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1877)
• Aalbert Wouters († 1949)
• Adrianus Fokkes, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1869)
• Adriaan Jacobus Zonnevijlle, Hoofdplaat († 1871)

• Albertus Johannes Koolen (0), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Tasma (0), Hallum
• Anna Maria Hendriks (0), Ginneken en Bavel
• Aaltjen Hendriksen Bouwers (82), Apeldoorn
• aaltje adriana QUARTEL (2), westmaas
• Aaltjen (Aartje) Brouwers (Bouwers) (82), Apeldoorn {GE}
• Albertje Dontje (0), Weiwerd, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Meijs (1), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Durinck (0), Graauw en Langendam, Hulst, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Annigje Zijnge (63)

• 1854 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager († 1933)
• 1859 » August Herrmann, American executive in Major League Baseball (d.1931)
• 1860 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist († 1940)
• 1867 » Andy Bowen, American boxer († 1894)
• 1867 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1870 » Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein († 1948)
• 1871 » Emmett Dalton, American criminal († 1937)
• 1873 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine († 1945)
• 1874 » François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty, Inc. († 1934)
• 1874 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic († 1954)

• 1839 » Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
• 1856 » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
• 1856 » Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
• 1910 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
• 1916 » Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
• 1916 » Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
• 1916 » Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Dirk
12. Adrianus
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Gerardus
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Trijntje
15. Elizabeth
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• March 29 » American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
• April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
• April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
• May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
• May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
• August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.

The temperature on May 3, 1865 was about 23.6 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 31%.