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• Erwin Cochet, Leuven, 3000 België († 2003)
• Maria Leda Guedes Rodrigues, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brasil († 2016)
• Eduard Visser († 2015)
• Albertus M Jansen († 2021)
• Marinus Nobertus Paulus Norbertus [Berry] Sikkers, Tilburg (NB, NL) († 1954)
• Anthonij de Moree, Tiel (GL) († 2008)
• maria wilhelmina (marijke) bouten, arcen en velden
• N.N. Kloos, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anita van Loenen, Bingelrade († 2000)
• Marinus Nobertus Paulus Norbertus [berry] Sikkers, Tilburg († 1954)

• Andries Boekel (73), Oude Niedorp
• Adrianus Hubertus Van De Wijgerd (61), Roosendaal (Noord-Brabant, Nederland)
• Allen Scheevel (63), Greenleafton, Minnesota
• Carl August (August) Pflitsch . (57), Hamburg, Duitsland
• Adrianus Hubertus VAN DE WIJGERD (61), Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Pays-Bas
• "Gabriëlle" Jeannette Josine Godin de Pesters (72), Den Haag, Pays-Bas
• Alida van Vuurst (73), Utrecht
• Catharina Cornelia van Hilten (83), Amsterdam
• Annius Wagter * (45), Meppel
• Aaltje van 't Hof (84), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1950 » Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer
• 1950 » Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer
• 1950 » Paul Callery, Australian footballer
• 1950 » Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer († 1992)
• 1951 » Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1951 » Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach
• 1953 » Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter
• 1954 » Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer
• 1956 » Chris Jones, English footballer
• 1956 » Eric Roberts, American actor

• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)
• 1958 » Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
• 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Meyer Jacobstein, American academic and politician (b. 1880)

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.
• February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
• April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
• June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
• July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
• October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.

The temperature on April 18, 1953 was between 6.6 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.