About the day » Wednesday February 23, 1955Calender converter

• Aloisio Junckes, Antonio Carlos, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1956)
• Grada Wilhelmina Bauhuis, Beek bij Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2019)
• Josephina Elkisabeth Kostons, Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland († 1998)
• Ger Huisinga, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 2021)
• Maria Jolanda van der Meijden, Ermelo († 2011)
• Adrianus Wilhelminus Carolus de Klerk, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)
• Akke Fokje Stienstra († 1955)
• Geertruida Bleijleven, Heerlen, Nederland († 1975)
• Sheryl Renee Haack, Hospers, Sioux County, Iowa († 1955)
• Nelly Everaert, Aalst

• Albert Marcel Leopold Nestor Dusart, Luxemburg (Lu)
• Antonetta Tacken (81), Venlo
• Alida Isabella Godijn (85), 's-Gravenhage,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Zwier (57), Lutjebroek
• Antonius Maria Wijnen (66), Tilburg
• Anna Bloem (82), Vlieland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Wijnekus (76), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Zwier (57), Grootebroek
• Anton Roddenhof (83), Hardenberg
• Catharina Christina Johanna Nicolai (83), Diemen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1951 » Eddie Dibbs, American tennis player
• 1952 » Brad Whitford, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1953 » Kenny Bee, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1953 » Satoru Nakajima, Japanese race car driver
• 1954 » Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic († 1989)
• 1954 » Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian captain and politician, 3rd President of Ukraine
• 1955 » Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach († 2015)
• 1955 » Howard Jones, English singer-songwriter
• 1956 » Sandra Osborne, Scottish politician
• 1958 » David Sylvian, English singer-songwriter

• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. John
10. Petrus
11. Gerrit
12. Dirk
13. David
14. Adrianus
15. Johan
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Yvonne
11. Petronella
12. Marianne
13. Margaretha
14. Marie
15. Helena
16. Gerda

• 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 10.7 million citizens.
• April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
• May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
• November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• November 15 » The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
• December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
• December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

The temperature on February 23, 1955 was between -5.3 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -2.6 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.