About the day » Monday February 8, 1954Calender converter

• Wanda Gail Fowler ****, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Rudolf van Dissel, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jean-Pierre Heymans, Lommel
• Norbert Deburchgraeve, Veurne, België († 1954)
• NN Tuijthoff, Leiden
• Sheryl Tazelaar, Wichita, KS
• Catharina Johanna Degeling, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• johannes andreas marie (hans) reinders, sevenum
• Marinus Schreurs, Rijssen, Nederland († 2004)
• Teunis Cornelis Los, Aalsmeer

• Anna Cody Burns (74), Seneca, Crawford, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Swart (56), Grosthuizen
• Albertus de Bruin (78), Nijmegen.C.W.Ziekenhuis
• Anna Catharina Vosters (88), Bladel en Netersel
• Anna Catharina Vosters (gerardus hoeks) (88), Bladel
• Annigje Kreukniet (39), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonie Marius Kuijntjes (55), 's Gravenhage
• aldegonda francisca josephina smits (42), roermond
• Artur Busch (49)
• Adolph Jones Simmons (79), Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1949 » Brooke Adams, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 » Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer and coach († 2014)
• 1953 » Mary Steenburgen, American actress
• 1954 » Joe Maddon, American baseball coach and manager
• 1955 » Jim Neidhart, American wrestler († 2018)
• 1955 » John Grisham, American lawyer and author
• 1956 » Marques Johnson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1957 » Karine Chemla, French historian of mathematics and sinologist
• 1958 » Marina Silva, Brazilian environmentalist and politician
• 1958 » Sherri Martel, American wrestler and manager († 2007)

• 1945 » Italo Santelli, Italian fencer and coach (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (b. 1862)
• 1957 » John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1957 » Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1959 » William J. Donovan, American head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
• 1960 » J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911)
• 1963 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (b. 1908)
• 1964 » Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1968 » Maurice Maillot, French actor (b. 1906)

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 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
• 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.
• August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
• September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
• November 22 » The Humane Society of the United States is founded.

The temperature on February 8, 1954 was between -3.0 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.