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• Linda Helene de Boer, Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa († 2021)
• Harold Wayne ROBINSON, Huntsville, AL
• TINEKE ANJEMA, HOLWERD, Friesland, Nederland († 2012)
• Albert Hans Kleine, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Mestenmaker, Jipsingboertange Gem. Vlagtwedde († 1954)
• Hans de Haas, Beneden-Leeuwen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1980)
• martina petronella henrica (petra) gielen, helden-panningen
• Gerardus Petrus Maria Zoet, Den Helder († 2009)
• Paulo José de Oliveira Fairbanks, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2018)
• Arend Harm Kregel, Peize († 2017)

• Arieda de Waard (86), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Bernardus Wilhelmus van Onna (83), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Grevelink (90), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Vondeling (94), Makkinga
• Aaltje Bredewold (60), Zwolle
• Aart van der Linden (42), Haarlem
• Bastiaan van Rosenberg (75), Geervliet
• Blandina dos Santos (57)
• Adriana Maria Melis (65), Tilburg
• Adrianus Cornelius VERSCHUEREN (73), Weelde, Ravels, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium

• 1949 » Michael Beck, American actor
• 1949 » Rasim Delić, Bosnian general († 2010)
• 1951 » Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
• 1951 » Phil Ehart, American rock drummer and songwriter
• 1952 » Jenny Shipley, New Zealand educator and politician, 36th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1952 » Thomas Silverstein, American prisoner, founder and former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang († 2019)
• 1955 » Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak politician, Prime Minister of Slovakia
• 1957 » Don Davis, American composer and conductor
• 1958 » Tomasz Pacyński, Polish journalist and author († 2005)
• 1959 » Christian Schreier, German footballer and manager

• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (b. 1926)
• 1970 » Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1894)

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 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• February 18 » The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
• March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
• April 22 » Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
• September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

The temperature on February 4, 1954 was between -11.0 °C and -1.5 °C and averaged -6.7 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.