About the day » Wednesday May 3, 1961Calender converter

• John Harold Howard Macdonald, Charlottetown, PEI († 2003)
• Hendrik Schonewille, Hellendoorn, Overijssel, Netherlands(Daarlerveen) († 1991)
• Bryan J. Nederhood, of Michigan, United States († 1994)
• Johannes Evert de Vries
• Jolanda van Noye, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• David Colin FROHLING, Durban
• Andre van Vliet
• elisabeth maria antonia gerarda segers, helden-dorp
• elisabeth wilhelmina petronella maria (helma) korsten, helden-dorp
• Geertruida (Gerda) Borchers, Delfzijl, Groningen, Netherlands († 2009)

• Aalt Bosch (74), Ermelo
• Albertus Taal (64), Scheveningen
• Adrianus van Minderhout (69), Breda
• Arie van Es (86)
• Adriana Wielemaker (71), Koudekerke, Zeeland, NL
• Adriana de Jong (83), Rucphen (Rucphen) (Noord-Brabant)
• anna maria hubertina (hubertina) kleuters (84), helden-panningen
• Arie Wassenaar (61), Leiden
• Anna Elisabeth Delveau (78), Alken
• Antje Boerema (68), Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1959 » Ben Elton, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 » David Ball, English keyboard player and producer
• 1959 » Uma Bharti, Indian activist and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
• 1960 » Kathy Smallwood-Cook, English sprinter and educator
• 1961 » David Vitter, American lawyer and politician
• 1961 » Leyla Zana, Kurdish activist and politician
• 1961 » Steve McClaren, English footballer and manager
• 1962 » Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
• 1963 » Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player and coach
• 1963 » Mona Siddiqui, Pakistani-Scottish journalist and academic

• 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 » Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Bill Downs, American journalist (b. 1914)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Yvonne
7. Catharina
8. Karin
9. Jacqueline
10. Wilhelmina
11. Ingrid
12. Monique
13. Adriana
14. Petronella
15. Marianne
16. Anita

• 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
• February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
• April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
• May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
• May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
• September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
• October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.

The temperature on May 3, 1961 was between 9.0 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.