About the day » Wednesday March 10, 1954Calender converter

• Mary Beth Sanderfoot, Neenah, Winnebago, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• bernardus johannes maria wilms, helden-dorp
• N N ten Berge, Steenwijk († 1954)
• NN Verboon, Leiden
• Marie Louise Hendrix, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Francky VAN DER DONCKT, Brugge († 1954)
• Martin Frans HALLEEN, Belloille, Z-Afrika († 2020)
• Priscilla Anne Newton, probably Cowra, NSW, AU († 1998)
• John Randolf Gosset Vonk († 1967)
• Isabelle Schenk von Stauffenberg, Bamberg, Allemagne († 2014)

• Anna Catharina van DUN (81), Meerle,, Antwerpen, België
• Anna Maria van Oosterhout (78), Geldrop
• Abraham B. Swartz (83), Falls Mill City, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Hendrica Verhagen (74), Utrecht
• Antje Batema (83), Kooten, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Otter (81)
• Aafje Schraag (74), Rotterdam
• Aafje Schraag (74), Rotterdam
• Antje Bates Batema (83)
• Antje Otter (81)

• 1948 » Austin Carr, American basketball player
• 1952 » Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe († 2018)
• 1953 » Paul Haggis, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 » Toshio Suzuki, Japanese race car driver
• 1956 » Larry Myricks, American long jumper and sprinter
• 1956 » Robert Llewellyn, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda († 2011)
• 1958 » Garth Crooks, English footballer forward and sportscaster
• 1958 » Sharon Stone, American actress and producer
• 1958 » Steve Howe, American baseball player († 2006)

• 1925 » Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (b. 1884)
• 1940 » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1942 » Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1951 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (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.
• March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• May 13 » The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
• August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
• September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
• October 10 » The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
• 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.

The temperature on March 10, 1954 was between 3.6 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.