About the day » Sunday March 3, 1929Calender converter

• Donald Stubbe, George, Lyon County, Iowa († 2006)
• BART (Lambertus Leonardus) de Kort, Moergestel, Nederland († 2014)
• Arie van der Wel, Monster († 2015)
• Annie de Rooij, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2001)
• Rietveld, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Doodgeboren dochter Schoonhoven, Utrecht († 1929)
• Cornelia Petronella van den Berg, Rotterdam († 2001)
• Albertus Cornelis Spanjersberg, Rotterdam († 1993)
• Delbert Cleo Baker, Collins, St.Clair County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1938)
• Catharina Cilissen, Heukelom, Riemst, België († 2011)

• Abraham van der Sloot (76), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (Anna) Maria Theresia Jozefina Meijs (63), Heerlen, LI, Netherlands
• Albert Raap (73), Wouterswoude, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Hendriks Raap (73), Wouterswoude, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Hendriks Raap (73), Wouterswoude
• Aaltje Jager (84), Netherlands
• Adriana Daalhuizen (73), Jutphaas
• Adriaan Hendrik Koster (85), Oosterland gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Albert Raap (73), Dantumadeel (Dantumadeel) (Friesland)
• Adam Bayer (49), Tschatali, Hungary (Csátalja)

• 1923 » Barney Martin, American police officer and actor († 2005)
• 1923 » Doc Watson, American bluegrass singer-songwriter and musician († 2012)
• 1924 » Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese soldier and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Japan
• 1926 » James Merrill, American poet and playwright († 1995)
• 1927 » Pierre Aubert, Swiss lawyer and politician († 2016)
• 1930 » Ion Iliescu, Romanian engineer and politician, 2nd President of Romania
• 1934 » Jimmy Garrison, American bassist and educator († 1976)
• 1934 » Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, English politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1935 » Mal Anderson, Australian tennis player
• 1935 » Michael Walzer, American philosopher and academic

• 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. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Wilhelmus
12. Jacob
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Margaretha
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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
• January 20 » The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released.
• February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• November 7 » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
• December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.

The temperature on March 3, 1929 was between -7.6 and 6.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.