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• Johanna Adriana Maria van der Beek († 1955)
• Toni Lorraine Kelson, Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon († 1955)
• Jan Willem Hekhuis, Middelburg († 2001)
• Antonius Johannes Helena Bouten, Groeningen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1975)
• Larry Preston RANDALL († 2004)
• Jaantje van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Anna Wilhelmina Dorothea (Annie) Bos, Helden Beringe († 2022)
• Kenneth Jay Bloemendaal, Doon, Lyon County, Iowa († 2022)
• Guido Callewaert, Oostende West-Vlaanderen, België († 2018)
• Modest Jan Szewczak († 2005)

• Adrianus Antonius van den Eijnden (84), Prinsenbeek
• Alida Bergen Henegouwen (84), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Bruin (58), Den Helder
• Alide Elzina HARTSEMA (50), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Aaltina Hendrika Schelhaas (79), Hoogeveen nederland
• Aalbert Besselink (80), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Platje (77)
• Annigje van Zwol (63), Drachten
• Alida Elzina Hartsema (50), Nieuwe Pekela
• Adrianus Pieter van Velze (77), Utrecht

• 1950 » Gianfranco Brancatelli, Italian race car driver
• 1950 » Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver († 1982)
• 1951 » Bob Latchford, English footballer
• 1951 » Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and activist († 1982)
• 1952 » Michael Behe, American biochemist, author, and academic
• 1952 » R. Stevie Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 » Brett Hudson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1953 » Peter Moon, Australian comedian and actor
• 1955 » Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 » Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton, English banker and politician

• 1951 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)
• 1952 » Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1954 » Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor (b. 1879)
• 1955 » Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1956 » Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Makbule Atadan, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1885)
• 1963 » Hugh Gaitskell, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1906)
• 1966 » Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Goose Tatum, American basketball player and soldier (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)

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. Margaretha
13. Marianne
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.
• February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
• September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
• December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
• December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

The temperature on January 18, 1955 was between -4.0 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.