About the day » Friday September 23, 1955Calender converter

• Sytske de Jong, Oudega, Friesland, Nederland († 2014)
• Cornelis Theodorus Jak, Assendelft NH NL († 1958)
• Sijtske DE JONG, Oudega (Smallingerland) Friesland Netherlands († 2014)
• Margaret Kornbrekke, Brooklyn, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1972)
• Guido BIJNENS, Genk (Limburg) (B) († 1992)
• Joanne Elizabeth Shallow, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Marie Jeanne Jacobs, Zutendaal / Belgie († 2004)
• Jantine Schuttinga, Groningen, Neth
• Eelke van der Bei, Zwaagwesteinde, Friesland, Nederland († 1975)
• Antonia Gerarda Maria Manders, Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands († 1972)

• Franciscus Waaijer, Rotterdam
• Adriana Denissen (77), Oudenbosch
• Alphonsus Ludovicus Kempen (71), Geel, België
• Franciscus Anton Josephus Carel VAN VOORST TOT VOORST (71), Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
• Cornelia Uijtdewilligen (54), Bergen Op Zoom
• Franciscus Antonius Josephus Carel baron van Voorst tot Voorst (71), Roermond,Gemeente Roermond,Limburg,Netherlands
• Abraham Verkeij (80), Groede
• Clazina Hendrika Verhoef (30), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Johannes van Puffelen (87), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Anna Maria van Roessel (66), Nijmegen

• 1952 » Anshuman Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
• 1952 » Dennis Lamp, American baseball player
• 1952 » Mark Bego, American author
• 1953 » Nicholas Witchell, English journalist
• 1954 » Charlie Barnett, American actor († 1996)
• 1954 » Cherie Blair, English lawyer and academic
• 1956 » Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
• 1956 » Peter David, American author, actor, and screenwriter
• 1956 » Tom Hogan, Australian cricketer
• 1957 » Rosalind Chao, American actress

• 1939 » Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Hale Holden, American businessman (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and critic (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (b. 1887)
• 1971 » James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)

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. Jacobus

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. Gerda
15. Marie
16. Helena

• 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.
• January 2 » Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
• April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
• April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
• May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
• September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
• December 14 » Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.

The temperature on September 23, 1955 was between 14.6 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.