About the day » Monday March 3, 1947Calender converter

• Josepha Wilhelmina van Dijk, Arnhem († 2015)
• Eva Elaine Burns, Big Creek, Texas County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• N.N. Meindersma, Sittard († 1947)
• Amy Marianne Ilbrink, Batavia (Jakarta), Java Indonesië († 2013)
• Frans SPEK, Den Haag († 1999)
• Pieter Varkevisser, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Michael Clifford Wolfe, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 1971)
• Michael Aime Grenier, Hartford, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten († 1997)
• Gerrit Hendrik Soer († 2012)
• Linda Kay Folkertsma, Kent County Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2011)

• Aaltien Kok (56), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Schoenaers (75), Hoepertingen, België
• Aaltien Peeks (55), Schoonloo (Rolde)
• Albert van der Wal (65), Wagenborgen gem. Termunten
• Adriana Damen (77), Rotterdam
• Akke Taekes Postmus (78)
• Anna Maria Brands (77)
• August Eduard Heinrich Janssen (80), Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Beert Kuiken (83), Sint Annaparochie, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Boender (66), Bergen op Zoom

• 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
• 1948 » Snowy White, English guitarist
• 1949 » Bonnie J. Dunbar, American engineer, academic, and astronaut
• 1949 » Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player († 2011)
• 1949 » Ron Chernow, American historian, journalist, and author
• 1950 » Kamal Ahmed Majumder, Bangladeshi politician
• 1951 » Andy Murray, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

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

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

• 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
• March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
• March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
• April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
• May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
• November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
• December 6 » The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.

The temperature on March 3, 1947 was between -10.4 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -6.8 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.