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• Jacobje Hakvoort, Urk († 2009)
• Jerry Lee Nyenbrink, MI, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• N.N. Bloks, Oss († 1954)
• Johannes Jacobus (Hans) Timmer, Oldeberkoop († 2023)
• Lynnette Kay Polley, Sydney
• Henk Roest, Langerak († 2016)
• Julie Ann Zwart, Hawarden, Sioux County, Iowa († 2021)
• Luanne Marie te Brake
• Simon Stevens († 2009)
• David Martin Kammeraad († 2005)

• Anna Maria Philomena Senden (69), Kerkrade
• Antonia Johanna Kleiberg (60), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje de Zee (73), Utrecht
• Anna Veronica Heizer (72), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Tjaaktje Hogerman (90), Delfzijl
• Alexander Kentie (53), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anthonie Diepeveen (63), Almelo
• Anthonie Diepeveen (63), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Oldenhuizing (71), Zweeloo, Nederland
• Antonia Francisca Vermeulen (30), Eindhoven

• 1952 » Maurice Lucas, American basketball player and coach († 2010)
• 1952 » Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer
• 1953 » Derek Pellicci, English-Australian drummer
• 1953 » Robbie Bachman, Canadian rock drummer
• 1954 » Charlie Fowler, American mountaineer, author, and photographer († 2006)
• 1954 » John Travolta, American actor and producer
• 1954 » Paul Rendall, English rugby player
• 1955 » Cheetah Chrome, American musician
• 1955 » Lisa See, American writer and novelist
• 1955 » Miles Tredinnick, English singer-songwriter and playwright

• 1942 » Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author (b. 1872)
• 1945 » Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
• 1956 » Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and academic (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Gertrude Vanderbilt, American stage actress (b. c. 1885)
• 1964 » Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1967 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1969 » Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)

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.
• June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
• September 11 » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
• October 15 » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
• November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
• November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
• December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.

The temperature on February 18, 1954 was between -0.9 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.