About the day » Sunday October 3, 1954Calender converter

• Johannes C Veefkind, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Nn Tromp, Arnhem
• Adriana Kortlever († 2022)
• Simon Hendrik van der Vliet, 'Dennenrust' (een wijk in den Burg, Texel) († 2006)
• Jacobus Abraham Erasmus, Springs, Transvaal, R.S.A. († 2015)
• Alexander Wilhelmus Maria Roelofs, Elten (D) († 2019)
• Theodorus Willems, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2006)
• Maria Cornelia Hoogeveen, Voorburg († 1971)
• Marcia Faye NIEWENHUIS († 2014)
• Cornelia Warmenhoven, Leidschendam († 1972)

• Catharina de Boer (72), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Kooiman (77), Pipestone County, Minnesota
• Cornelia Meerwaldt (41), Rotterdam
• Anna Henneman (39), Zeist
• Cornelia van der Kleij (71), Delft
• Anna Angela Tiben (58), Munnekemoer, Gemeente Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Niederlande
• Cornelia van Oostenbrugge (53), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonius Cornelis Johannes van de RIJDT (53), Veghel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Roelfina Koops (66), Groningen, Wonende Te Marum
• * ELIZABETH Baars (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NL

• 1952 » Bruce Arians, American football coach
• 1952 » Gary Troup, New Zealand cricketer
• 1954 » Al Sharpton, American minister, talk show host, and political activist
• 1954 » Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1954 » Eddie DeGarmo, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1954 » Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 1990)
• 1955 » Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter († 2000)
• 1955 » Buket Uzuner, Turkish author
• 1955 » John S. Lesmeister, American educator and politician, 30th North Dakota State Treasurer († 2006)
• 1955 » Moshe Kam, American engineering educator

• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)
• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)

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

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

• 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 10.6 million citizens.
• January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
• October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
• November 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on October 3, 1954 was between 10.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.