About the day » Sunday December 3, 1933Calender converter

• Elmer George Kooi, Eagle Township, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1933)
• Bertha Euwilda Owens, Satolah, Rabun County, Georgia († 1968)
• Cornelis Hendrikus Eerden, Huissen, Gemeente Lingewaard, Gelderland, Niederlande († 1944)
• Christina Barendregt († 1933)
• Adrianus van Pareren, Amsterdam († 1973)
• Konijnenburg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Bep Geurts, Grashoek († 1998)
• Berendina Alberta Elfrink, Twello (gem.Voorst) († 2006)
• Aalt Roskam, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 2001)
• Catherine R Heisserer, Missouri († 2007)

• Alfred Joseph Henau (39), Oudenaarde, België
• Anna Agnes Rutten (61), Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Agnes Rutten (61), Elsloo, Limburg, Nederland
• Aart Kool (84), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Samuel Nicolaus Timmermann (40), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Albert Marie Joseph Edouard van Caloen (77), Loppem, Grafkelder van Ockerhout, 8210, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• * Aart Kool (84), Bergen op Zoom
• Aaldert Prins (28), Groningen
• "Albert" Marie Joseph Edouard Charles van Caloen (77), Loppem, Zedelgem, Belgique
• Albert Preeker (82), Buiksloot

• 1930 » Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss director and screenwriter
• 1930 » Raul M. Gonzalez, Filipino lawyer and politician, 42nd Filipino Secretary of Justice († 2014)
• 1931 » Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author and poet († 2011)
• 1931 » Jaye P. Morgan, American singer and actress
• 1932 » Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and politician († 2007)
• 1933 » Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1934 » Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian philosopher and academic
• 1934 » Nicolas Coster, British-American actor
• 1934 » Viktor Gorbatko, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1935 » Eddie Bernice Johnson, American nurse and politician

• 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)
• 1934 » Charles James O'Donnell, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1868)
• 1937 » William Propsting, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (b. 1883)
• 1949 » Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress and educator (b. 1876)
• 1952 » Rudolf Margolius, Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1913)

• 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 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
• March 5 » Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
• March 6 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
• March 31 » The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
• September 12 » Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
• October 10 » A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
• October 14 » Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.

The temperature on December 3, 1933 was between -8.4 °C and 0.5 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.