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• Diny Spijkerman († 1997)
• LuRae Ivan Johnson, Wellsburg, Grundy County, Iowa († 2023)
• Jan Thies Jansen, Loppersum († 1953)
• Johanna Beijer, Eethen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2017)
• Clayton Schiebout, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 1953)
• Ronald Heuser, 's-Gravenhage
• Dirk van Raalte, Elburg, Nederland († 1992)
• Hilda Diepstra († 2013)
• Adrianus Johannes Amadeus Maria van Rooij, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Betsie van Loon, Drunen († 2013)

• Antonia Hendrika Helleman (76), Rotterdam
• Anna Petronella Alida van Marken (78), Wassenaar
• Adrianus Welschot (66), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bartholomea Awater (82), Ooij, Ubbergen
• Ada Blanch Love (79), Henry, Georgia
• Arie Jongeneel (92), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland
• Adriaantje van 't Hof (72), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Padmos (89), Woudenberg
• Annelies Grada Hermina Maria Scholten (0), Enschede
• Bartholomea Awater (82), Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1950 » Angelo Branduardi, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 » Steve Hackett, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1952 » Michael McDonald, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1952 » Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer († 2010)
• 1953 » Joanna Kerns, American actress and director
• 1954 » Joseph Jordania, Georgian-Australian musicologist and academic
• 1954 » Phil Zimmermann, American cryptographer and programmer
• 1954 » Tzimis Panousis, Greek comedian, singer, and author († 2018)
• 1955 » Bill Laswell, American bass player and producer
• 1955 » Chet Lemon, American baseball player and coach

• 1935 » Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (b. 1846)
• 1942 » Avraham Stern, Polish-Israeli militant leader (b. 1907)
• 1942 » Eugene Esmonde, Irish-English lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1909)
• 1942 » Grant Wood, American painter and academic (b. 1891)
• 1947 » Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian educator, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
• 1954 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1958 » Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (b. 1903)

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.
• January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
• February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
• March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
• March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
• May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
• December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.

The temperature on February 12, 1953 was between -1.6 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 8.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.