About the day » Tuesday March 3, 1942Calender converter

• Catharina Johanna Maria Vorselaars, Tilburg
• Gerald Victor Michell, Canajoharie (Montgomery County) (New York) († 2018)
• Droog, Heythuysen († 2010)
• Gerard Schamp, Ravenstein († 2011)
• IRENA CHRISTINA RIJCKAERT, DE KLINGE,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 2022)
• Dina Douma, Heerenveen (Friesland) († 2011)
• Grietje Groeneveld, Ede († 1942)
• Aniceto de Almeida Barreto de Gouveia, Rio Formoso, Pernambuco, Brasil († 1942)
• Desiré Jadoul, Valkenburg,, Limburg, Nederland († 1991)
• Cornelia M. Brouwers, Alphen en Riel († 1996)

• Amadeus Savoy (43), Nairobi, Kenya
• Adriana van Malsem (67), Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Amedeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Folippo Maria Giiuseppe Giovanni of Savoy-Aosta (43), Nairobi (Ken)
• Alida Maria Trumpie (31), Australie
• Amedeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Savoy of Aosta (43)
• Adrina de Wit (40), Amsterdam
• Amadeo Umberto Isabella DE SAVOY-AOSTA (43), Nairobi, Kenya
• Amadeus van Italie (43), Nairobi
• Amadeo DI SAVOIA-AOSTE (43), P.O.W. Camp Nairobi Kenya
• Amadeus Umberto Isabelle Lodewijk Filips Maria Giuseppi Giovanni Prins van Savoye (43), Nairobi, Kenia

• 1939 » Larry Burkett, American author and radio host († 2003)
• 1939 » M. L. Jaisimha, Indian cricketer († 1999)
• 1940 » Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian author and journalist
• 1940 » Jean-Paul Proust, French-Monacan police officer and politician, 21st Minister of State of Monaco († 2010)
• 1940 » Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded Perry Ellis († 1986)
• 1941 » Mike Pender, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 » George Miller, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 » Hattie Winston, American actress
• 1947 » Clifton Snider, American author, poet, and critic
• 1947 » Jennifer Warnes, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 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)
• 1966 » Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1966 » Joseph Fields, American playwright, director, and producer (b. 1895)
• 1966 » William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian (b. 1887)

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

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. Margaretha
15. Grietje
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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
• February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
• May 7 » World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
• October 29 » The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
• November 19 » Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
• November 19 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

The temperature on March 3, 1942 was between -2.9 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.