About the day » Thursday June 3, 1909Calender converter

• Ada Jane Hunsaker, Honeyville, Box Elder County, Utah, Verenigde Staten († 1974)
• Antje Boomsma, Arum (gem. Súdwest-Fryslân)
• Antje Leegsma, Twijzelerheide († 1998)
• Aaltje Blaauwijkel, Lonneker / Enschede († 1958)
• Annie Poels, Vierlingsbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1983)
• Holscher, Deventer,, Overijssel, Nederland
• de Groot, Vleuten, Nederland († 1909)
• Alida Hendrika van 't Wout, Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Carolina Cornelia Verlaan, Rijswijk († 1975)
• Antje (Rinderts) Leegsma, Twizel, Friesland, Nederland († 1998)

• Anna Bruinsdochter VISSCHER (81), Kampen (Overijssel)
• Anna Margaretha Hommerich (62), Amsterdam
• Lukas Hummel (68), Ruinerwold
• Arie van der GAAG (41), Delft
• Billy William Sutherland (87)
• de Groot (0), Vleuten, Nederland
• Alegundis Theodora Sudré (69), 's Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne de Seyssel (77)
• Christina Sijpestijn (43), Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan te Kloese (0), Terborg-Wisch (Oude IJsselstreek)

• 1904 » Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon († 1950)
• 1904 » Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor († 1984)
• 1905 » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer († 1946)
• 1906 » Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative († 1975)
• 1906 » R. G. D. Allen, English economist, mathematician, and statistician († 1983)
• 1906 » Walter Robins, English cricketer and footballer († 1968)
• 1907 » Paul Rotha, English director and producer († 1984)
• 1910 » Paulette Goddard, American actress and model († 1990)
• 1911 » Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter († 1999)
• 1913 » Pedro Mir, Dominican poet and author († 2000)

• 1882 » Christian Wilberg, German painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1894 » Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1825)
• 1900 » Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (b. 1862)
• 1902 » Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1829)
• 1906 » John Maxwell, American golfer (b. 1871)
• 1921 » Coenraad Hiebendaal, Dutch rower and physician (b. 1879)
• 1924 » Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Li Yuanhong, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1864)
• 1933 » William Muldoon, American wrestler (b. 1852)

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

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

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
• April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

The temperature on June 3, 1909 was between 8.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.