About the day » Saturday August 3, 1946Calender converter

• Jitze Mud, Drachtstercompagnie († 1999)
• Diane Elizabeth Black, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Joseph M. Mecca, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Karin Wirtz, Keulen
• Johanna Maria Visser, Bussum
• Jannes Cornelis Jagt, Borger († 2001)
• Johannes Mathilda de Klerk, Vogelwaarde,, Zeeland, Nederland († 1975)
• Cornelis van Veen, Urk († 2004)
• Marvin Edward Bell, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Bruce Charles Hoag, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2020)

• Cornelia Dorothea de Ronde (84), Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Brandt (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Ambrosius Swinkels (80), Lieshout
• Aaltje Visscher (3), Ter Apel (Vlagtwedde)
• Cornelis Vermeulen (19), Soerabaja, Java, Nederlands Indië
• Cornelis Ruijgrok (78), Maasland, ZH, Nederland
• Cornelis Bastiaanse (77), Nieuw-Ginneken
• Antje Stark (87), West-Sayville, Suffolk County, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Ruigrok (78), Delft,-
• Catharina Montijn (69), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

• 1943 » Béla Bollobás, Hungarian-English mathematician and academic
• 1943 » Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson of Sweden
• 1944 » Nino Bravo, Spanish singer († 1973)
• 1945 » Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer and journalist
• 1946 » Jack Straw, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1946 » John York, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1946 » Robert Ayling, English businessman
• 1946 » Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter († 2004)
• 1947 » Ralph Wright, English footballer († 2020)
• 1948 » Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French lawyer and politician, 166th Prime Minister of France

• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1943 » Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (b. 1914)
• 1949 » Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Colette, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
• 1958 » Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1959 » Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (b. 1884)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Helena
15. Yvonne
16. Marianne

• 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 11 » Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
• February 18 » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
• March 21 » The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933.
• April 17 » The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
• April 20 » The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
• August 23 » Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.

The temperature on August 3, 1946 was between 12.8 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.