About the day » Saturday March 3, 1917Calender converter

• Albert Henri DELPORTE, Comines,7780,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique,Belgique († 1988)
• Aebe Kloosterman, Oudwoude, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland († 1989)
• Aebe Kloosterman, Kollum, Nederland († 1989)
• Bastiaan van Krimpen, Zevenbergen (Moerdijk), Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1984)
• Anna Christina Kitzen, Grevenbicht, Sittard-Geleen († 1985)
• Arie den Hartog, Rotterdam († 1918)
• Arend Kok, Nieuw-Weerdinge, Emmen († 1920)
• Abraham Noordam, Rozenburg (Zuid-Holland) († 1938)
• Albertus Martinus van der Liet, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1962)
• Adrianus Maria van Wolferen, Beneden Leeuwen († 1919)

• Anna Catharina de Wit (58), Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonie van Elst (81), Monster
• Anneke Bleeker (59), Kampen, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Anthonie van der Elst (geboren van Der Elst) (81), Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana GROENENDIJK (86), Sommelsdijk (Middelharnis), NL-ZH
• Anneke Bleeker (59), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana GROENENDIJK Mdr (86), Sommelsdijk, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Aaltje Kremer (85), Leermens, 't Zandt
• Anna Barbara Lemmens (74), Overpelt
• Adriana Cornelia Kools (85), Steenbergen, Nederland

• 1913 » Harold J. Stone, American actor († 2005)
• 1913 » Margaret Bonds, American pianist and composer († 1972)
• 1914 » Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor († 1973)
• 1916 » Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician († 2006)
• 1917 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic († 1952)
• 1918 » Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1920 » James Doohan, Canadian-American actor and soldier († 2005)
• 1920 » Julius Boros, American golfer and accountant († 1994)
• 1920 » Ronald Searle, English-French soldier and illustrator († 2011)
• 1921 » Diana Barrymore, American actress († 1960)

• 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)
• 1961 » Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist (b. 1887)

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

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

• 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
• March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
• May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
• May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
• June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
• July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
• November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

The temperature on March 3, 1917 was between -1.0 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.