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• Janny Petronella Foppen († 2015)
• Neeltje (Nellie) Strating, groningen († 2010)
• Gerrie Gijsbers, Gendt († 2017)
• Levenloos geboren kind Kaandorp, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ben Dassen, Sittard,, Limburg, Nederland († 1999)
• Josephina Anny Louisa Vandenbergh, Meerhout († 2014)
• Maria Juliana ZWART, Ambt-Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 2018)
• Marchienus Thalen, Geesbrug, Oosterhesselen († 1970)
• Johnie Marie Clinkscales, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States of America († 2012)
• Doodgeboren zoon Slegers († 1953)

• Amerik Kuijt (78), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Vaartjes * (51), Steenwijkerwold
• Angela Cicely Mary Acland (65)
• Annie Greentree (72), Muswellbrook, NSW, AU
• Arend Jannes Roelofs (66), Epe
• Catharina WOLFS (85), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Adriana Petronella Luiten (67), Den Hoorn (Nl)
• Catharina Sanderse (75), Goes
• Abel de Groot (81), Eexta (gem. Oldambt)
• Amerik Pietersz Kuijt (78), Katwijk

• 1949 » Lois McMaster Bujold, American author
• 1951 » Lindy Morrison, Australian rock drummer
• 1951 » Thomas Mallon, American novelist, essayist, and critic
• 1952 » Maxine Nightingale, English R&B/soul singer
• 1954 » Pat Croce, American businessman and author
• 1955 » Chris Burnett, American saxophonist and composer
• 1955 » Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager
• 1956 » Dale Brown, American author and pilot
• 1957 » Carter Beauford, American drummer and composer
• 1958 » Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager

• 1944 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
• 1949 » Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 » George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
• 1958 » Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 » Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)

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. Margaretha
11. Yvonne
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.
• March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
• May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
• June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
• November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

The temperature on November 2, 1953 was between 6.8 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.