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• Inge Keesman, Alkmaar († 2024)
• Anthony Jay Miles, Marlette, Sanilac, Michigan († 2013)
• Louwe Post († 2014)
• Alexander (alex) Sman († 2012)
• Frank Zonneveld, Castricum († 2000)
• Machiel Adrianus Johannes Maria van Wordragen, Ammerzoden
• Hennes Eijkenboom († 2006)
• Nicole HEERINCKX († 2002)
• Marten Kornelis Hummel, Emmen († 1998)
• Hennes Eijkenboom († 2006)

• Alijda Ruiter (88), Zwartebroek
• Anna Marie Haesen (62), Meerssen
• Mulder (0), Hedel
• Anna Maria Haesen (62), Maastricht
• Benjamin Franklin Borup (62)
• Aafke Hendriekje de Rode (70), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Lambregts + (76), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje JAGER (92), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Buijsman (51), Onderdijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aloijsius Groenewegen (78), Naaldwijk, Nederland

• 1952 » Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer scientist († 1999)
• 1952 » Dewey Bunnell, British-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Nadiuska, German television actress
• 1953 » Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor and singer
• 1953 » Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
• 1953 » Wayne Schimmelbusch, Australian footballer and coach
• 1954 » Cindy Sherman, American photographer and director
• 1954 » Esther Shkalim, Israeli poet and Mizrahi feminist
• 1954 » Katey Sagal, American actress and singer
• 1955 » Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian and actor

• 1938 » Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Gustave Mesny, French general (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Tony Garnier, French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
• 1957 » József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1963 » Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
• 1968 » Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1879)
• 1972 » Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Jacobus
13. Gerardus
14. Adrianus
15. Jacob
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Marianne
12. Yvonne
13. Marie
14. Linda
15. Helena
16. Mary

• 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 10.6 million citizens.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
• July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
• August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
• September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
• September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.

The temperature on January 19, 1954 was between 2.2 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.