About the day » Sunday May 3, 1981Calender converter

• Geert Klaas van Dam, Uithuizen
• Gaëtan PARDON, Bruxelles, 21004, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Wieger van der Veen, Pretoria, ZA

• Bertha Struijve (69), Tielt, Belgium
• Edith Rosiers (36), Duffel, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Amos Harold Daveney (78), Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
• Alida, Jacoba Renard (69), Berkel en Rodenrijs
• Antonius Simon Hendriks (64), Leiden
• Alma Lillian Bush (65), Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Agnes Petronella van den Burg (55), Den Haag
• Antonius Simon Hendriks (64), Leiden
• Allegonda Joanna Maria Lieshout van (69), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord Brabant
• Clemie Adelia Sparks (82), Texas, Verenigde Staten

• 1978 » Christian Annan, Ghanaian-Hong Kong footballer
• 1979 » Anastasiya Shvedova, Belarusian pole vaulter
• 1979 » Steve Mack, American wrestler
• 1980 » Zuzana Ondrášková, Czech tennis player
• 1982 » Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-American football player
• 1982 » Nick Stavinoha, American baseball player
• 1983 » Jérôme Clavier, French pole vaulter
• 1983 » Joseph Addai, American football player
• 1983 » Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer († 2015)
• 1983 » Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer

• 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)
• 1987 » Dalida, Italian singer, actress, dancer, and model (b. 1933)
• 1988 » Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1908)
• 1989 » Christine Jorgensen, American trans woman (b. 1926)
• 1991 » Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1933)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
• January 10 » Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
• January 15 » Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
• January 17 » President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
• January 28 » Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• June 24 » The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world's longest bridge span for 17years.
• July 19 » In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.

The temperature on May 3, 1981 was between -2.0 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.