About the day » Tuesday March 3, 1891Calender converter

• Aaltjo Hendrik van Delden, Smilde, Drenthe, Netherlands(Bovensmilde)
• Abraham de Bruyn, Abcoude-Proosdij
• Adéla Reymen, Kwaadmechelen, Limburg, België († 1967)
• Abraham Abel Wester, Zwolle († 1975)
• Adrianus van Riek, Hillegom († 1972)
• Albertus Koldenhof, Wenum Apeldoorn († 1949)
• Adriaan Bastiaan van Dijke, Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1963)
• Adrianus van Zwijndrecht, Den Helder
• Adriana Vissers, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1980)
• Adrianus Weeda, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1963)

• Adriana Hendrika Kooijman (0), Vianen
• Abraham Burkholder Blosser (63)
• Alida van Weelie (13), Beesd West Betuwe (GL)
• Alida (Aaltje) Fulps Prins (57), Egmond aan Zee
• Aleida uit de Bosch (6), Harderwijk
• Aart Janse Kraan (75), Hoogland, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aart Janse Kraan (75), Hoogland, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Overdulve (28), Zaamslag
• Aafje Kellenaar (83), Leiden
• Jakob Jan Brongersma (0), Usquert

• 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 » Matthew Ridgway, American general († 1993)
• 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1898 » Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician and academic († 1962)

• 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. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• May 16 » The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
• August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
• October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
• December 22 » Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.

The temperature on March 3, 1891 was about 4.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.