About the day » Sunday May 3, 1868Calender converter

• Angenieta IJsseling, Delft († 1962)
• Adriana de Leeuw, Oudelande, Zeeland, Nederland († 1943)
• Anna Hamstra, Oldehove, Groningen, Netherlands († 1935)
• Anna Cornelia van Alphen, Standdaarbuiten († 1950)
• Adolf Weyandt, Schwarzenau, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Anna Maria Wey, Rivenich, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany († 1897)
• Alphons Willem Hubert Breuers, Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland († 1945)
• Adriaan-jan-maria Driessen, Oss († 1870)
• Albert Vonk, Ooststellingwerf († 1942)
• Ambrose E Meyer, Minnesota († 1949)

• Blazina Corstanje (48), Kattendijke
• Adaleida Adriana Wilhelmina Coorengel (0), Sambas/Pontianak, Nederlands-Indië
• Albert Eggink (71), Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Jans van den Bosch (66), Schipluiden
• Antonius Johannes Hopman (0), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• arij johannes de zanger, ijsselmonde
• Arij van der Schouw (27), Schiedam
• Adriana van Baaren (68), IJsselstein
• Adriana Beukers (0), Bergen (Noord-Holland)
• Adrianus Breugelmans (33), Roosendaal en Nispen (NL)

• 1859 » August Herrmann, American executive in Major League Baseball (d.1931)
• 1860 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist († 1940)
• 1867 » Andy Bowen, American boxer († 1894)
• 1867 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1870 » Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein († 1948)
• 1871 » Emmett Dalton, American criminal († 1937)
• 1873 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine († 1945)
• 1874 » François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty, Inc. († 1934)
• 1874 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic († 1954)
• 1877 » Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author († 1925)

• 1839 » Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
• 1856 » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
• 1856 » Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
• 1910 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
• 1916 » Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
• 1916 » Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
• 1916 » Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Antje
14. Trijntje
15. Petronella
16. Elizabeth

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 2 » Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
• May 14 » Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward.
• July 25 » The Wyoming Territory is established.
• August 13 » The 8.5–9.0 M_w  Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand.
• September 19 » La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
• September 25 » The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

The temperature on May 3, 1868 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.