About the day » Monday March 2, 1953Calender converter

• Willemina Jannetje Nettenbreijer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Marijke Johanna Christina Bouman, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1982)
• Cornelia Louisa Maria van den Ouweland, Gilze en Rijen
• Laura Brandinga († 1972)
• Michel Matthys, Aalst (B), België († 1989)
• Leslie James COOK, Southfields, Wandsworth, Surrey († 1991)
• Gustaaf Boekaerts, Nijlen, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2000)
• Jacob Gerrit Nentjes, Urk († 2014)
• Lucien Achiel Willems, Gent († 1962)
• Johanna Maria Margaretha Duivenvoorden, Noordwijkerhout († 2014)

• August BACHMEIER (74)
• Anna Molenaar (81), Leeuwarden
• Adriaantje Kranendonk (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Krijnen (87), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Alberdina (Wiebes) Cazemier (89), Roden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aartje van den Brink (59), Harderwijk
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth van den Berg (74), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Gerrets (73), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Abel Johannes Eilardus Deuling (0), Onstwedde (Stadskanaal), Groningen, Nederland
• Alberdina Cazemier (89), Roden

• 1950 » Karen Carpenter, American singer († 1983)
• 1952 » Laraine Newman, American actress and comedian
• 1952 » Mark Evanier, American author and screenwriter
• 1953 » Russ Feingold, American lawyer and politician
• 1954 » Ed Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1955 » Dale Bozzio, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
• 1955 » Jay Osmond, American singer, drummer, actor, and TV/film producer
• 1955 » Ken Salazar, American lawyer and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1955 » Steve Small, Australian cricketer
• 1956 » John Cowsill, American musician, songwriter, and producer

• 1944 » Ida Maclean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1895)
• 1946 » George E. Stewart, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1947 » Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882)
• 1949 » Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (b. 1879)
• 1953 » James Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Selim Sırrı Tarcan, Turkish educator and politician (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Fred Merkle, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)

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

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

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
• January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
• March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
• May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
• October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.

The temperature on March 2, 1953 was between -4.0 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.