About the day » Tuesday August 3, 1954Calender converter

• Viki Fenton († 1967)
• Geert Koster († 1982)
• Gail Joan Subritzky, Kaitaia, Far North, Auckland, NZ († 1987)
• Ruurd de Jonge, Blokzijl, Nederland († 2019)
• Harry Banasiak († 2018)
• Kind Petrus Plasmans, Bladel en Netersel
• Rita Leenders, Boxtel († 1997)
• Jopie Lenis († 1993)
• Vicki Mary (Margaret) FENTON († 1967)
• Charles Antonius Kok, Haarlem († 2020)

• Arend Stuurman (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Cornelia de Heer (80), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Cornelia Lammechiena Weelinck (64), Wildervank
• Constant Alphonse Désiré Julien (83), Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Vielet (75), Saint-Maur-de-Fosses (Val-de-Marne) F
• Anna Maria van Dijk (67), Bergen op Zoom
• Antonius Petrus Boot (43), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christophorus Antonius Maria Bögemann (63), Slenaken
• Catharina Maria Melchers (74), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• A Schouten (74), Breda

• 1951 » Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1952 » Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Ian Bairnson, Scottish saxophonist and keyboard player
• 1953 » Marlene Dumas, South African painter
• 1954 » Gary Peters, English footballer and manager
• 1954 » Michael Arthur, English physician and academic
• 1956 » Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1956 » Dave Cloud, American singer-songwriter and actor († 2015)
• 1956 » Kirk Brandon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » Todd Christensen, American football player and sportscaster († 2013)

• 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)
• 1964 » Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (b. 1925)
• 1966 » Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 1968 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (b. 1896)

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.
• March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
• September 11 » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
• November 7 » In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
• December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

The temperature on August 3, 1954 was between 12.2 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.