About the day » Thursday March 3, 1887Calender converter

• * Theodora (Door) Verhoeven, Drunen († 1939)
• Alida Vis, Harrison, Douglas County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 1960)
• * Aaltje Hart, Wormerveer († 1949)
• alphonsine clarisse RICHARD, Warquignies (Belgium) († 1968)
• Adriana Cornelia de Weert, Steenbergen († 1966)
• Adriana van Hoogdalem, 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1933)
• Aafje Koornwinder, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Agnes Ottengraf, Kohlscheid, Duitsland († 1973)
• Adrianus Josephus Guilhelmus Staes, Baarle-Nassau († 1906)
• Amy Mary Lawler († 1969)

• Johannes De Groot (61), Rotterdam
• Anna Gielen (67), Kessenich (B)
• Anna Maria Spijkers (2), Tilburg Nederland
• Ann Meldrum (86), Crieff, Puslinch Twsp, Wellington, County, Ontario,Canada
• Anna Adriana de Marees van Swinderen (34), 's Gravenpolder
• Adriana Oskam (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Pekelharing (74), S Graveland
• Anna Maria van de Wassenberg (64), Veghel
• Aart Teunisse Verbeek (62), Ophemert
• Anna Maria barones van Heeckeren van Brandsenburg (47), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands

• 1880 » Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter († 1962)
• 1880 » Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1946)
• 1882 » Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman († 1949)
• 1882 » Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter († 1974)
• 1883 » Cyril Burt, English psychologist and geneticist († 1971)
• 1883 » Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist († 1977)
• 1887 » Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot († 1915)
• 1891 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop († 1949)
• 1893 » Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter († 1998)
• 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)

• 1850 » Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
• 1894 » Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1901 » George Gilman, American businessman, founded The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (b. 1826)
• 1905 » Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (b. 1830)
• 1927 » J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (b. 1884)
• 1927 » Mikhail Artsybashev, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Katharine Wright, American educator (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (b. 1864)
• 1943 » George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)

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

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

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
• June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.

The temperature on March 3, 1887 was about 3.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%.