About the day » Wednesday March 2, 1955Calender converter

• Geertje Hilles Dantuma, Driezum (Driesum),Dantumadiel,Fryslan,Nederland († 2001)
• Edouard Jean Joseph Strijckers, Maaseik, Provincie Limburg, België († 2010)
• wilhelmina johanna gerarda van ninhuijs, maasbree
• JAMES RYAN MAHLER, ORLANDO, FLORIDA († 2004)
• Iebe Annes VAN DER MEER, Oosterlittens (Baarderadeel) Friesland Netherlands († 1973)
• Cornelia Alida Verschoor, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Mark Orrin Barton, Sumter,Sumter County,South Carolina († 1999)
• Erik Nieman, Australie
• Jeffery Carroll, Holland (Ottawa), Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Johanna Berendina Velten, enter

• Adrianus Luijken (80), Breda, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje (kosterstante) Harbers (85), rijssen
• Adriana van der Sar (82), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Reits de Haan (85), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anton Pieter Wilhelm Spaan (61), Arnhem, Gld, Nederland
• Andreas Bonner (70), Aalst, Alost, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Albertus Johannes van van den Brink (71), Utrecht
• Adriana Maria Elst (93), Essen B
• Adrianus Martinus Doll (68), Den Bosch
• Alphonsus Jacobs (90), Mol (B)

• 1953 » Russ Feingold, American lawyer and politician
• 1954 » Ed Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1955 » Dale Bozzio, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
• 1955 » Jay Osmond, American singer, drummer, actor, and TV/film producer
• 1955 » Ken Salazar, American lawyer and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1955 » Steve Small, Australian cricketer
• 1956 » John Cowsill, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1956 » Mark Evans, Australian rock bass player
• 1957 » Dito Tsintsadze, Georgian film director and screenwriter
• 1957 » Hossein Dehghan, Iranian general and politician, Iranian Minister of Defense

• 1944 » Ida Maclean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1895)
• 1946 » George E. Stewart, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1947 » Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882)
• 1949 » Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (b. 1879)
• 1953 » James Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Selim Sırrı Tarcan, Turkish educator and politician (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Fred Merkle, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)

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.
• May 9 » Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
• 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.
• June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
• August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
• December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.

The temperature on March 2, 1955 was between -7.1 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.