About the day » Thursday August 3, 1939Calender converter

• Lies Habets, Kerkrade,, Limburg, Nederland († 1981)
• Johanna Alberta Theresia van Rhee, Tegelen († 2014)
• Myrna Sue Allen, Claunch, New Mexico († 1997)
• Irma Hubertine Mas, Kozen, België († 1966)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1939)
• Angèle Irma Thoenen, Alken, België († 2012)
• Lloyd Munneke, Rock valley, Sioux Co,. Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Elisabeth Maria Martens († 1997)
• Geert Goldhoorn, Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands († 2015)
• NN Nijdam, Meppel, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1939)

• Elisabeth van den Berg (30), Doornspijk, Nederland
• Clementina D'Een (85), Sint-Niklaas (Oost-Vlaanderen, België)
• Agnes Quinn (72), Provan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
• Eduard Julius Carl Scharenberg (99), chicago, Cook, Illinois
• Wind (0), Exloërmond (Odoorn)
• Ann Eliza Forbes (83), Layton, Davis, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Arie de Roos (63), Zwolle,Overijssel,Niederlande
• Arie Zegwaard (79), Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dorothy Smith (0), Bracken, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Elisabeth Knippenberg (84), Thorn, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1937 » Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
• 1937 » Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General
• 1937 » Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright
• 1937 » Tom Georgeson, English actor
• 1938 » Terry Wogan, Irish-English radio and television host († 2016)
• 1939 » Apoorva Sengupta, Indian general and cricketer († 2013)
• 1939 » Jimmie Nicol, English drummer
• 1940 » James Tyler, American guitarist and songwriter († 2010)
• 1940 » Lance Alworth, American football player
• 1940 » Martin Sheen, American actor and producer

• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1943 » Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (b. 1914)
• 1949 » Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Colette, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Jacoba
13. Margaretha
14. Aaltje
15. Trijntje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
• March 1 » An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
• March 17 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
• May 22 » World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
• August 31 » Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
• September 1 » World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
• December 12 » HMSDuchess sinks after a collision with HMSBarham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.

The temperature on August 3, 1939 was between 10.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.