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• Cornelia Anna Maria van Westerop, Noordwijk († 2022)
• Hendrik (Henk) van Eden, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Pieter OOSTINJEN, Amersfoort, Utrecht, NEDERLAND († 1988)
• Petrus Zwaans, Schaijk († 1970)
• Martinus Johannes Petrus Maria (Martin) ten Bookum, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2015)
• Doeke Tjerk Duursma († 2003)
• Josseline Leemans, Mechelen-Bovelingen, België († 1966)
• Ebe Visser, Drachten, Friesland, Nederland († 2001)
• Paul Reijer Stolk, 's Gravenhage Z.H († 1982)
• Derk Willem (Derk) KAPPELLE, Adelaide (Mile End South), deelstaat Zuid-Australië, Australië († 2020)

• Aloysius Antonius Maria Janssen (59), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus van de Pol (61), Alphen en Riel
• Antonius Martinus van 't Wout (22), Amsterdam
• Antoon G. F. Daenen (0), Batsheers, België
• Adriana van Dun (84), Udenhout
• Afke Hylkes Boerstra (79), Amsterdam
• Adolphe Alfons VERHOFSTEDE (75), Antwerpen
• Annie Kitty Perdue (86), Franklin, Virginia, United States
• Anne Marie Josephine Dawans (47), Klein-Gelmen, België
• Anna Maria Stallinga (78), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1951 » Ed Royce, American businessman and politician
• 1951 » Sally Little, South African-American golfer
• 1952 » Béla Csécsei, Hungarian educator and politician († 2012)
• 1952 » Roger Heath-Brown, English mathematician and theorist
• 1952 » Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1953 » David Threlfall, English actor and director
• 1953 » Les Dennis, English comedian and actor
• 1954 » Linval Thompson, Jamaican singer and producer
• 1954 » Massimo Ghini, Italian actor
• 1954 » Michael Roe, American singer, songwriter, and record producer

• 1940 » Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
• 1954 » George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
• 1958 » Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
• 1964 » John Watkins, Canadian diplomat (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

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 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
• March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
• May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
• December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

The temperature on October 12, 1953 was between 3.8 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.