About the day » Friday May 3, 1968Calender converter

• Rindert van der Bij († 2016)
• Gerard Conraad Veen, Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland († 1968)
• Philippe Albert Georges VANTOURS, Mazingarbe(62)... Hauts de France († 2009)
• Gemma Merlina Acusar Tago, Tagbilaran Philipijnen
• Wibe Brouwers, 's Hertogenbosch († 1968)

• Carolina Tielemans (85), Lier
• Alexander Hubert Starmans (63), Nijmegen
• Bernardus Brok (65), Borne, OV, Nederland
• Adam Wolters (72)
• Arie Holster (66), Dordrecht, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Bessel van Winkoop (69)
• Brantinus Drenth (64), Wildervank
• Aidel Leah Rottenberg
• Carolus Christianus Heinrich Wolf (69), Amstelveen, Nederland
• Anna Niesters (66)

• 1965 » Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian patriarch
• 1965 » John Jensen, Danish footballer and coach
• 1965 » Mark Cousins, Northern Irish director, writer, cinematographer
• 1965 » Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian businessman
• 1966 » Frank Dietrich, German politician († 2011)
• 1966 » Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer
• 1967 » Daniel Anderson, Australian rugby league coach and manager
• 1967 » Kenneth Joel Hotz, Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian
• 1968 » Viliami Ofahengaue, Tongan-Australian rugby player
• 1971 » Douglas Carswell, British politician, the first elected MP for the UK Independence Party

• 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)
• 1981 » Nargis, Indian actress (b. 1929)
• 1986 » Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Johan
6. Hendrik
7. Richard
8. Michael
9. Marcel
10. Willem
11. Cornelis
12. Mark
13. John
14. Patrick
15. Eric
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Sandra
6. Petra
7. Anna
8. Esther
9. Elisabeth
10. Yvonne
11. Karin
12. Jolanda
13. Jacqueline
14. Cornelia
15. Linda
16. Sylvia

• 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
• January 22 » Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
• April 4 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
• July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
• October 12 » Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
• October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• November 26 » Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

The temperature on May 3, 1968 was between 6.5 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.