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• Ronald Len "Ronnie" Garrison, Orange, Orange, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Willem Stangenberger, Velserbroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Roger Leenen, Sint-Truiden, België († 2016)
• Gijsbertus Gerardus Maria van Reenen, Utrecht († 2005)
• Willem Stangenberger, Velserbroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Owen Carroll McParland, Queens Village, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Marie Catharine Crommelin, St. Germain en Laye († 1954)
• Alois Van Bogaert, Sint-Gillis-Waas († 2013)
• Bernard Joseph de Vries († 1954)
• Durk Kramer, St. Nicolaasga († 1990)

• CLASINA GERARDA HEENEMAN (72), 'S-GRAVENHAGE
• Anna Vissia (75)
• Aaltje Eelkes van der Bei (34)
• Antonius (Toon) BIEMANS (38), Aarle en Rixtel (NL/NB)
• Antje Fokkens (81), Opsterland
• Aaltje van der Bei (34), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Bei (34), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis Drijver (90), Amsterdam
• Alfons Lodewijk Van Camp (72), Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium
• (94), Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

• 1953 » Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1954 » Jerry Moran, American lawyer and politician
• 1954 » Robert Beaser, American composer and educator
• 1955 » David Kirschner, American animator, producer, and author
• 1955 » Frank Baumgartl, German runner († 2010)
• 1955 » Gordon Rintoul, Scottish historian and curator
• 1955 » John Hinckley Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
• 1955 » Ken Schrader, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1956 » La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1956 » Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations

• 1942 » John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 » May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1957 » James Whale, English director (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Netta Muskett, English author (b. 1887)
• 1966 » Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (b. 1909)

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.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
• August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
• August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
• October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
• November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.

The temperature on May 29, 1954 was between 10.6 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.