About the day » Friday May 3, 1968Calender converter

• Rindert van der Bij († 2016)
• Philippe Albert Georges VANTOURS, Mazingarbe(62)... Hauts de France († 2009)
• Gerard Conraad Veen, Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland († 1968)
• Wibe Brouwers, 's Hertogenbosch († 1968)
• Gemma Merlina Acusar Tago, Tagbilaran Philipijnen

• Arie Holster (66), Dordrecht, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Chlodwig Alfred Peter Ferdinand Jacob Joseph Nicolaas Anton Maria Prins van Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (70)
• Alida Rosing (80), Musselkanaal, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Antonia Hermina Kroese (93), Elburg
• Antonia Hermina Kroese (93), Elburg
• Adam Wolters (72)
• Clara Effie Crotwell [[iKi]]1 (75), Laurel, Jones County, Mississippi
• Bernardus Josephus Klaassen (77), Eindhoven
• Adriana Cornelia van der Smissen (86), Sint Willebrord
• Bernardus Brok (65), Borne, OV, Nederland

• 1965 » Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian patriarch
• 1965 » John Jensen, Danish footballer and coach
• 1965 » Mark Cousins, Northern Irish director, writer, cinematographer
• 1965 » Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian businessman
• 1966 » Frank Dietrich, German politician († 2011)
• 1966 » Giorgos Agorogiannis, Greek footballer
• 1967 » Daniel Anderson, Australian rugby league coach and manager
• 1967 » Kenneth Joel Hotz, Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian
• 1968 » Viliami Ofahengaue, Tongan-Australian rugby player
• 1971 » Douglas Carswell, British politician, the first elected MP for the UK Independence Party

• 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 » Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Bill Downs, American journalist (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Nargis, Indian actress (b. 1929)
• 1986 » Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Johan
6. Hendrik
7. Richard
8. Michael
9. Marcel
10. Willem
11. Cornelis
12. Mark
13. Patrick
14. John
15. Eric
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Sandra
6. Petra
7. Anna
8. Elisabeth
9. Esther
10. Yvonne
11. Jolanda
12. Karin
13. Jacqueline
14. Cornelia
15. Linda
16. Sylvia

• 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
• February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
• June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
• June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
• July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
• October 14 » The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
• December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.

The temperature on May 3, 1968 was between 6.5 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.