About the day » Sunday May 3, 1953Calender converter

• JO Buckinx († 1975)
• Maria H. Stet, Alkmaar († 1953)
• Reijertje Hendrika de Meijere († 2018)
• Timothy Ray Baynum, Kenton County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• John RENKEMA, Port Alberni British Columbia Canada († 1974)
• W.J. (Wim) Kaarsgaren, Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Wilhelmus Kaarsgaren, Blaricum, Netherlands († 2010)
• Ton van Kleef († 1970)
• Jake Hooker, Haifa, Israel († 2014)
• Alexander Adelbertus Henricus Doomernik, 's Hertogenbosch († 1953)

• Adriana Clazina de Jong (78), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolina Johanna Geertruida Peters (57), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Bruneel (42), Bavikhove, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Alphons van Dun (53), Utrecht
• Adriana Verkooijen (79), Dongen
• Berendina Geesje Rorije (47), Almelo
• Adrianus Post (23)
• Albert Pieter Aalbertsz. Groenendijk (69), Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigje Veldhuis (82)
• albert pieter GROENENDIJK (69), pernis

• 1951 » Alan Clayson, English singer-songwriter and journalist
• 1951 » Ashok Gehlot, Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan
• 1951 » Christopher Cross, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1952 » Caitlin Clarke, American actress († 2004)
• 1952 » Chuck Baldwin, American pastor and politician
• 1952 » Joseph W. Tobin, American cardinal
• 1953 » Bruce Hall, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1953 » Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter († 2014)
• 1954 » Angela Bofill, American singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Jean-Marc Roberts, French author and screenwriter († 2013)

• 1935 » Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Madeleine Desroseaux, French author and poet (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Thorvald Stauning, Danish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Harry Miller, American engineer (b. 1875)
• 1948 » Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (b. 1876)
• 1949 » Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Zakir Husain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk, Turkish footballer, coach, and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1972 » Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b. 1898)

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

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

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
• January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
• January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
• March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
• May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
• October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on May 3, 1953 was between 9.8 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.