About the day » Friday May 3, 1935Calender converter

• Gordon S. Hall, Bridgeport, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Helga Blümer, Hamburg, Altona, Duitsland († 1980)
• Agatha Steenbergen, Linschoten
• Albert van der Haven, Leiden († 2020)
• Hermina Hendriks, Apeldoorn († 2016)
• Anna Maria Verhoeven, Erp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1938)
• Gerardus Teurlings, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2021)
• Arend Nakken, Nieuw-Amsterdam, Emmen († 2021)
• Hendrina Verwoert, Varik (NL) († 2014)
• Dien Driessen, Melderslo,Li. (Eikelenbosch) († 2024)

• Adriana Cornelia Vogelenzang de Jong (76), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carel Christiaan Johan Thämer (83), Den Haag
• Anna Josephine Mortensen (46)
• Van Eenoo (36), Meulebeke
• Aaltje de Jonge Pen (54), Oldemarkt
• Aaltje Roelofs (75), Enschede
• Abeltje Elema (75)
• ? ? (73)
• Barbara Landis (89)
• Cassandra 'Katie' VN (75), York

• 1932 » Robert Osborne, American actor and historian († 2017)
• 1933 » James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor († 2006)
• 1933 » Steven Weinberg, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1934 » Frankie Valli, American singer and actor
• 1934 » Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2013)
• 1934 » Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster († 2011)
• 1935 » Ron Popeil, American businessman, founded the Ronco Company
• 1937 » Nélida Piñon, Brazilian author and academic
• 1938 » Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player
• 1938 » Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist

• 1919 » Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)
• 1921 » Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (b. 1883)
• 1925 » Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (b. 1841)
• 1932 » Charles Fort, American journalist and author (b. 1874)
• 1935 » Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Madeleine Desroseaux, French author and poet (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Thorvald Stauning, Danish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Harry Miller, American engineer (b. 1875)
• 1948 » Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (b. 1876)
• 1949 » Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1888)

• 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
• January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
• February 13 » A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
• March 21 » Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
• June 11 » Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
• August 15 » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
• September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.

The temperature on May 3, 1935 was between 1.5 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.