About the day » Sunday May 3, 1953Calender converter

• JO Buckinx († 1975)
• Maria H. Stet, Alkmaar († 1953)
• W.J. (Wim) Kaarsgaren, Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Reijertje Hendrika de Meijere († 2018)
• Cornelis Gerardus van Valkengoed, Stoutenburg, Utrecht, Nederland († 2023)
• Marja Kuijvenhoven, Hardenberg († 1956)
• Antonius Cornelius Adrianus M Doevendans, Haaren, Nederland († 1976)
• Frits Winters († 1977)
• Antonius Cornelis Adrianus DOEVENDANS, Haaren (Noord-Brabant) († 1976)
• Leonardus Jozef Hendrik Dietz, Tegelen († 2001)

• Albert Ekelhoff (82)
• Albert Pieter Aalbertsz. Groenendijk (69), Pernis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolina Aras (73), Lier, Antwerpen, België
• Catharina Helena Heijtman (77), Utrecht
• Alphons van Dun (53), Utrecht
• Bernard Trebbe (64)
• Annigje Veldhuis (82)
• Adrianus Johannes Post (23), Rotterdam
• Adriana Barbara de Rond (73), Breda
• Adrianus Post (23)

• 1951 » Alan Clayson, English singer-songwriter and journalist
• 1951 » Ashok Gehlot, Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan
• 1951 » Christopher Cross, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1952 » Caitlin Clarke, American actress († 2004)
• 1952 » Chuck Baldwin, American pastor and politician
• 1952 » Joseph W. Tobin, American cardinal
• 1953 » Bruce Hall, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1953 » Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter († 2014)
• 1954 » Angela Bofill, American singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Jean-Marc Roberts, French author and screenwriter († 2013)

• 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)
• 1970 » Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk, Turkish footballer, coach, and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1972 » Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b. 1898)

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. Yvonne
11. Margaretha
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 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
• February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
• March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
• April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
• June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
• July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.

The temperature on May 3, 1953 was between 9.8 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.