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• Fokke (Oedzes) de Haan, Harkema Opeinde, Friesland, Nederland († 2024)
• Reid van der Leij († 2011)
• Dini van der Hak, Scheveningen, Nederland († 2007)
• Michel Daenen, Borlo, België († 2020)
• Dini van der HAK, Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H) († 2007)
• Albert Bleeker, Alkmaar († 2019)
• Popck Sigurda de Haan, Hansweert († 1992)
• David Pennington, Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI († 1971)
• Josefa Catharina Maria van Holstein, Rijswijk, Nederland († 2002)
• Mark Monreo Todd ****, Dallas, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2007)

• Aagje Bakker (82), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Alphonsus M. Vierkens (61), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• adriana-Cornelia Broeders (84), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anton Josef Hensgens (89)
• Hermina Alida de Wit (49), Bodegraven
• Anna Tromp (90), Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Ana Maria Luisa Dauer (84), Araras, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Geertruida Duringshoff (71), Ermelo
• Anna Speetjens (74), Maastricht, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis van Beek (66), Weelde (België)

• 1953 » Tanino Liberatore, Italian author and illustrator
• 1954 » John Faulkner, Australian educator and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Defence
• 1954 » Pat Travers, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 » Steve Stevaert, Belgian businessman and politician († 2015)
• 1955 » Fabian Hamilton, English graphic designer, engineer, and politician
• 1956 » Andy Garcia, Cuban-American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 » Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer-songwriter and actor
• 1957 » Greg Child, Australian mountaineer and author
• 1957 » Tama Janowitz, American novelist and short story writer
• 1957 » Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1937 » Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Turkish playwright and poet (b. 1852)
• 1938 » Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Lionel Logue, Australian actor and therapist (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1923)
• 1966 » Sydney Allard, English racing driver and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)
• 1968 » Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and dentist (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Arthur Freed, American songwriter and producer (b. 1894)

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. Marie
15. Gerda
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.
• May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
• 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.
• May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
• December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
• December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

The temperature on April 12, 1955 was between 4.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.