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• Maria G.E. Vos, Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Eveline Irene van Bronckhorst, Timor († 1997)
• Robert Ray Hulstein († 1979)
• Lucia Aerts, Tilburg, Nederland († 2007)
• Pauline Petronella Annechien Ikelaar, Amsterdam († 1974)
• Robert R. Hulstein († 1979)
• Jacob Kapitein († 2023)
• Sophia maria Johanna (Fita) Peulen, Koningsbosch, Netherlands († 2004)
• Charlene M Utter († 2012)
• Jennifer Schoonvliet, Kieldrecht († 1954)

• Anna Gesina Waanders (81), rijswijk
• Alfred Hayworth Pugh (81), Randolph County, North Carolina
• Alida Van Der Ploeg (75)
• Aaltje van Welsem (87), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Atze Ennema
• Aaltje Ekkelenkamp (77), Meppel
• Christiaan Nieland (77), Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje Petronella Lemstra (56), Amsterdam
• Anthonius Theodorus (Gerardus) Wanders (69), Doetinchem
• Betsij Beatrix Schenkhuizen (68), Haarlem

• 1950 » Walter Becker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2017)
• 1951 » Edward Albert, American actor († 2006)
• 1951 » Gordon Brown, Scottish historian and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1951 » Phil Neal, English footballer and manager
• 1951 » Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1997)
• 1953 » Poison Ivy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1954 » Anthony Head, English actor
• 1954 » Jon Brant, American bass player
• 1954 » Patty Hearst, American actress and author
• 1957 » Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1933 » Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)

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.
• April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
• July 7 » Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
• August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
• November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.

The temperature on February 20, 1954 was between -0.5 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.