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• Poppelaars, Breda († 1978)
• Elisabeth Petronella Gertruda Hendrix, Weert, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhemus Mulder, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Welte, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Karen Joy Smith, Perth, Western Australia, Australia († 1955)
• Jacob Ouwehand, Katwijk († 2010)
• Levenloos geboren kind Schrier, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Baby Torres, Houston, Texas († 1955)
• Jacob Ouwehand, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Gerben van der MEULEN († 1991)

• Amelia Anthonia van Opdorp (74), Deventer
• Annebertus Dondorff (52), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Stephanus Combee (68), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Overbeek (89), Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christianus van Hal (74), Heesch
• Cornelia van Gorcom (69), Drunen
• Benjamin Ploeg (81), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoon Timmermans (84), Eindhoven
• Cornelia van Gorcum (69), Drunen
• Arvilla Mae Leach (23), Ogden, Weber County, Utah, Verenigde Staten

• 1953 » Emilio Estefan, Cuban-American drummer and producer
• 1953 » John Edwards, Australian director and producer
• 1954 » Catherine O'Hara, Canadian-American actress and comedian
• 1954 » François Fillon, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France
• 1954 » Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet and author († 2017)
• 1954 » Peter Jacobsen, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1954 » Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Korean American author († 1982)
• 1954 » Timur Apakidze, Russian general and pilot († 2001)
• 1955 » Joey Jones, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1955 » Tim Costello, Australian minister and politician

• 1944 » Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and activist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)
• 1945 » Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
• 1945 » Mark Sandrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1948 » Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1949 » Clarence Kingsbury, English cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1952 » Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1954 » Noel Gay, English composer and songwriter (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)

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 1 » The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
• May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
• 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.
• July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
• December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The temperature on March 4, 1955 was between -2.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.