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• Wilhelmina Maria Eland, Den Haag, S-Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands († 1978)
• Wilbert Henricus Johannes Maria Hamers, Tilburg († 1953)
• Roger Jay Bourne, Vinton, Benton Co., IA († 2010)
• Antonius de Vree, Dreumel, Gelderland, Nederland († 2005)
• Ivan L. "Butch" Golder, Bridgewater, McCook Co., SD († 1988)
• Mieke van Roosmalen, Veldhoven († 2002)
• Beverly Ann Jackson, Verenigde Statn († 2011)
• Leo Verkerk, Netherlands († 2023)
• Andreas-Werner Zimmermann († 2010)
• Nicolaas Jan van ZWEEDEN, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland

• Aaltje Kapitein (75), ZWAMMERDAM (Alphen aan den Rijn), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis(Andrew) Cornelius Ippel (69), Sheboygan (Wisconsin, USA)
• Adolphe Théodore Joseph WAYMEL (77)
• Aart Schaftenaar (82), Harderwijk, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Andreas Hanssen (86), Beringe,, Limburg, Nederland
• Albert Elmer Hogancamp (79), Marin City, California, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Bonestroo (84), Nunspeet
• Aaltje Kaptein (75), Zwammerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnetha Sophia van Oudheusden (77), 's-Gravenhage
• Adrianus van IJzendoorn (84), Wageningen

• 1949 » Dennis Green, American football player and coach († 2016)
• 1949 » Fred Frith, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1951 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani soldier and pilot († 1971)
• 1952 » Karin Büttner-Janz, German gymnast and physician
• 1952 » Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player († 1991)
• 1954 » Lou Ann Barton, American blues singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Miki Berkovich, Israeli basketball player
• 1954 » Rene Russo, American actress
• 1955 » Mo Yan, Chinese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 » Richard Karn, American actor and game show host

• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
• 1946 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

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 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 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
• April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 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 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
• August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.

The temperature on February 17, 1953 was between -2.8 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.