About the day » Sunday December 3, 1911Calender converter

• Anna Tonnis, Annen, Anloo, Dr, Nederland
• van der Sluis, Hekelingen († 1911)
• Aafra Lute, Castricum
• Meendering, Groningen, Netherlands († 1911)
• Aafra Lute-, Castricum, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna van Mourick, Zevenbergen,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Aaltje Vos, Steenwijk († 1982)
• elilsabeth lopes cardozo, amsterdam († 1988)
• Aart van Pel, Klaaswaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Alte Otter, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1913)

• Albert Jan Rijkenbarg (71), Borculo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Christiaan Heinrich Borchers (71), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Jacobs (80), Ossendrecht
• Cora Livingston Kimberly (69), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Cornelis Hendrikus van Poorten (0), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertus van der Pol (32), amersfoort
• Cornelis Siebert (1), Leiden
• Cornelia van Kooten (59), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Bernardina Johanna BRUGMAN (0), Doetinchem Ambt
• Anna Maria Vermeiren (10), Loenhout, Antwerpen, Belgium

• 1902 » Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess player and philologist († 1993)
• 1902 » John Watkins, Canadian diplomat († 1964)
• 1902 » Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain and pilot († 1976)
• 1904 » Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player († 1976)
• 1905 » Les Ames, English cricketer († 1990)
• 1907 » Connee Boswell, American jazz singer († 1976)
• 1911 » Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, conductor, and academic († 1979)
• 1914 » Irving Fine, American composer and academic († 1962)
• 1918 » Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general and politician, 12th Indonesian Minister of Defence († 2000)
• 1919 » Charles Lynch, Canadian journalist and author († 1994)

• 1890 » Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1892 » Afanasy Fet, Russian author and poet (b. 1820)
• 1894 » Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1850)
• 1902 » Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (b. 1833)
• 1904 » David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (b. 1821)
• 1912 » Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Harold Garnett, English-French cricketer (b. 1879)
• 1919 » Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (b. 1841)
• 1928 » Ezra Meeker, American farmer and politician (b. 1830)

• 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 6.0 million citizens.
• January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
• May 9 » The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
• July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
• July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
• November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
• December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

The temperature on December 3, 1911 was between 2.0 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.