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• Albertus Tromp († 1981)
• Mieke de Heer, Hengelo († 2021)
• Anna Maria Josefina Franssen, Heerlen, Nederland († 1991)
• Steven A DUTCHER († 2009)
• Hiskia Gerbrand Coumou, Zeist, Holland († 2010)
• Pierre Hustings, Diepenbeek, België († 2018)
• Tjitske Pauw († 1985)
• Daniel Edward Beeler († 2001)
• Harrie Giesbers, Ottersum, Limburg, Nederland († 1985)
• Margaretha Franziska Diergart, Düsseldorf D

• Antonius Johannes van de Vondervoort (60), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia (Kee) Niessen (77), Steenbergen
• Albertus Cornelis van den Berg (78), Enschede
• Cornelia (Kee) Niessen (77), Steenbergen, NB, Nederland
• Abraham JOPPE (40), Bergen op Zoom,Gemeente Bergen op Zoom,NORTH BRABANT,NETHERLANDS
• Albert Jans DODDEMA (80), Nieuwe Stadskanaal, Onstwedde, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Andries Hof (81), Coevorden
• Cornelia Niessen (77), Steenbergen, Nederland
• Bernardus Kamp (78), Enschede
• Beligje Spierenburg (80), Zeist

• 1952 » Ahmet Piriştina, Turkish politician († 2004)
• 1954 » G.V. Loganathan, Indian-American engineer and academic († 2007)
• 1954 » Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach († 2012)
• 1954 » Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco († 2012)
• 1955 » Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist, essayist and poet
• 1955 » David Wu, Taiwanese-American lawyer and politician
• 1955 » Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer
• 1955 » Ricky Bell, American football player († 1984)
• 1955 » Ron Johnson, American businessman and politician
• 1956 » Michael Benton, Scottish-English paleontologist and academic

• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
• 1959 » Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Joseph Carrodus, Australian public servant (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)

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 13 » The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory lead to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
• March 19 » Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record that remains unbroken.
• March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
• April 22 » Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
• September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
• September 11 » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.

The temperature on April 8, 1954 was between -2.1 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.