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• Bert van Engelenburg († 1995)
• Wim Schoorlemmer († 1972)
• Jacques (Jacobus Theodorus Jozef) van Velzen, Voorburg († 2021)
• Hans-Peter de Jong, Rheinkamp Kreis Moers Deutschland († 2022)
• Roberta Ontjes, Sheldon, O´Brien County, Iowa († 2023)
• Marie Jeanne LEPERLIER, L'Étang-Salé,97427,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1955)
• Birgit Geerts, Leuven, Belgium († 1993)
• Pieter Jacob van der Es, Odoornerveen († 1999)
• Lynda Beth van der Wilt, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa († 1954)
• Isabelle de la Rochefoucauld, Paris, 75056, France († 1954)

• Alta Alzona Penny (68), Piqua, Miami, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Willem Mol (74), rockanje
• Adriana de Grauw (73), Heerlen
• Annigchien Boelens (66), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Post (91), Urk
• Allie de Zwarte (76), Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa
• Simon van den Berg (65), Gouda
• Anna Wilhelmina van der Veer (62), Zutphen
• Anna Maria Johanna den Ouden (67), Helmond
• Afke Haitsma (78), Heerenveen, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland

• 1952 » Tim Sebastian, English journalist and author
• 1952 » Wolfgang Rihm, German composer and educator
• 1953 » Andy Bean, American golfer
• 1953 » Michael Curry, 27th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
• 1954 » Robin Duke, Canadian actress and screenwriter
• 1954 » Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Guyanese-English politician and diplomat
• 1955 » Bruno Conti, Italian footballer and manager
• 1955 » Glenne Headly, American actress († 2017)
• 1955 » Olga Rukavishnikova, Russian pentathlete
• 1956 » Dana Delany, American actress and producer

• 1936 » Francis Bell, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)
• 1938 » Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and author (b. 1857)
• 1943 » Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1898)
• 1946 » Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor († 1882)
• 1965 » Fan Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1972 » Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

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. Margaretha

• 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.
• January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
• July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
• 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.
• October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.

The temperature on March 13, 1954 was between 1.3 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.