About the day » Friday May 3, 1946Calender converter

• Anthony Leonard Sonneveld († 2016)
• Eron Burger Larocca, Castro, Paraná, Brasil († 1961)
• Maria Anna Henrica Manders, Ravenstein, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2010)
• Anna Johanna de Keizer, Maurik,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1992)
• Adriana Johanna de Keizer, Maurik (gd) († 1992)
• Adriana Valk, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Daniël Van Praet, Mechelen, Belgiê († 2019)
• Jacob Booij Scholten, Amsterdam († 1947)
• Jelle Broersma († 2004)
• Aagje Bleijerveld, Nieuwer Amstel († 2023)

• Anna Magrieta Lans (88), Apeldoorn, Gld, The Netherlands
• Antje Menno's Schoonhoven (86), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes Holsheimer (77), Apeldoorn
• Albertus Schelhaas (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van den Bogert (78), Utrecht
• Aaltje Neuteboom (70), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Berendina Uwland (76), Utrecht
• Augusta Marie BAUWENS (63), Eeklo, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Anna Gerarda Maria Josephina van Leeuwen (71), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Arend Boeklage (79), Middelstum, Groningen, Nederland

• 1944 » Pete Staples, English bass player
• 1944 » Peter Doyle, English bishop
• 1945 » Davey Lopes, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1945 » Jörg Drehmel, German triple jumper and coach
• 1946 » Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster
• 1946 » Norm Chow, American football player and coach
• 1946 » Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
• 1947 » Doug Henning, Canadian magician († 2000)
• 1948 » Chris Mulkey, American actor
• 1948 » Denis Cosgrove, British-American academic and geographer († 2008)

• 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)
• 1958 » Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Zakir Husain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
• January 10 » The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
• February 15 » ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
• March 21 » The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933.
• July 7 » Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• August 1 » Leaders of the Russian Liberation Army, a force of Russian prisoners of war that collaborated with Nazi Germany, are executed in Moscow, Soviet Union for treason.
• December 19 » Start of the First Indochina War.

The temperature on May 3, 1946 was between 6.7 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.