About the day » Tuesday August 3, 1954Calender converter

• Geert Koster († 1982)
• William Tucker Speight [K] "Bill", Pitt County, North Carolina ac († 1990)
• Richard R Swart, Chicago Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Astrid Coppens, Aalsmeer,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Riena de Jong, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2020)
• Ruurd de Jonge, Blokzijl, Nederland († 2019)
• Jan van der Schuur († 2000)
• NN Kuper, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Johannes Antonius Liet, Rheden († 2009)
• Charles Antonius Kok, Haarlem († 2020)

• Adrianus Johannes van Trotsenburg (69), The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Martinus Arriaans (71), Heumen
• Catharina Boer (75), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Dijk (67), Bergen op Zoom
• Cecilia Vos (41), Tongeren, België
• Catharina Maria Melchers (74), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia van Henten (55), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Heijden, van der (66)
• A Schouten (74), Breda
• (Stillborn) VINK (0), Ten Boer Groningen Netherlands

• 1951 » Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1952 » Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Ian Bairnson, Scottish saxophonist and keyboard player
• 1953 » Marlene Dumas, South African painter
• 1954 » Gary Peters, English footballer and manager
• 1954 » Michael Arthur, English physician and academic
• 1956 » Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1956 » Dave Cloud, American singer-songwriter and actor († 2015)
• 1956 » Kirk Brandon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » Todd Christensen, American football player and sportscaster († 2013)

• 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)
• 1958 » Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1959 » Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (b. 1925)
• 1966 » Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 1968 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (b. 1896)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Marianne
12. Yvonne
13. Marie
14. Linda
15. Helena
16. Mary

• 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 10.6 million citizens.
• February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
• April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
• July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
• August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
• November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

The temperature on August 3, 1954 was between 12.2 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.