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• Patrick Reuben LINNANE († 2001)
• Jeffrey J Miller, Canton, Stark County, Ohio, United States of America († 2019)
• Adrianus Oehlenschläger, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• N.N., Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jeffrey Joe Miller, Canton, Stark, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Everhardus Laurentius Gerardus Albertusen Konter, Vollenhove († 2024)
• Johannes Maria Antonius Bovens, Amby († 2009)
• José Ottoni de Carvalho, São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 1955)
• Rene Hubertus Alphonsus Veugelers, Den Haag († 1970)
• Sondra Joy Rushing, Hickman, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1984)

• Antonia Duijmelinks (76), Helmond
• Adrianus Johannes van den Heuvel (60), Enschede
• Andries Peters (69), Alkmaar
• Anna Maria Philomena Billet (89)
• Adam ADAMS (72), Kropswolde,Hoogezand
• Antonis Wilhelmus (Anton) Tammerijn (57), 's Gravenhage
• Adriana Wilhelmina Boot (87), Renesse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Boot (87), Renesse, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Teunisse (66), Steenbergen
• Ada Smies (83), Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin

• 1953 » Billy Hayes, English union leader
• 1953 » Sandy Nairne, English historian and curator
• 1954 » Greg Ginn, American punk rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (Black Flag)
• 1954 » Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan († 2013)
• 1954 » Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician
• 1955 » Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer
• 1955 » José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1955 » Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
• 1956 » Jonathan Potter, English psychologist, sociolinguist, and academic
• 1956 » Udo Bullmann, German politician

• 1945 » Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
• 1951 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
• 1951 » Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
• 1956 » Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (b. 1912)
• 1965 » Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 » Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)

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.
• January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
• February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
• May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• 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.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
• December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The temperature on June 8, 1955 was between 10.5 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.