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• Catherine PIERRE († 2017)
• Sylvia Beekman, Amsterdam († 1954)
• Albertus Petrus Maria Strijkveen, Olst († 1954)
• Albertus Petrus Maria (Bertus) Strijkveen, Olst († 1954)
• Martinus Josephus Maria van Beek, Tilburg († 1954)
• Robert Charles MORLEY, Birmingham, Vol 9c, p 339 († 1980)
• Rompelman, Almelo († 1954)
• Cheryl Lynn Olson, Syracuse NE († 2005)
• Willem Eltink, Westelbeers
• Gertjan Visser, Honselersdijk, Naaldwijk († 2000)

• Albertus Wilhelmus van der Weerd (76), Zwollerkerspel
• Albertus Westenbroek (74), Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan
• Arie Schippers (74), oud-beijerland (zuid holland)
• Anna Anthonia Maria Louter (0), Alkmaar, Nederland
• Adriana van Luijk (91), Helmond
• Bertus Knoppert (64), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Snijkers (78), Stevensweert
• BIANCA ANGELINA RADAELI (44), DEVENTER
• Aleida Maria Dekeling (55), Nijmegen
• Berry Calhoun Anderson (72), Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas

• 1949 » Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer
• 1952 » Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer
• 1955 » Mark David Chapman, American murderer
• 1956 » Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist († 1995)
• 1957 » Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player († 1979)
• 1958 » Gaétan Boucher, Canadian speed skater
• 1958 » Rick Santorum, American lawyer and politician, United States Senator from Pennsylvania
• 1959 » Cindy Hyde-Smith, American politician, United States Senator from Mississippi, Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce
• 1959 » Danny Schayes, American basketball player
• 1959 » Victoria Rowell, American actress

• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1964 » Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)
• 1982 » Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)

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.
• January 14 » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
• October 15 » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
• November 22 » The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
• December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on May 10, 1954 was between 12.6 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.