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• Steven Lynn Thomassen, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2022)
• Johannes Petrus Zethof, Lisse († 1961)
• Ine Detert op Mönnink, Saasveld (Weerselo) († 2007)
• Mieke van Diessen († 1973)
• Johannes Hendrikus Zethof, Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Elizabeth Joan Mast, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2021)
• Sjoukje Heins († 2008)
• Ruth Theresa Manders, De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Yvonne Pierik, Zwolle, Nederland († 2007)
• Maria Anna Josephina (Marian) van Terheijden, bergen op zoom († 1988)

• Abraham Rothengatter (66), 's-Gravenhage
• Burt Walles (59), Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus Antonius Bloemen (56), Losser,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Philomena Ottjes (70), ,, Moerbeke, Belgie
• adriana frederika donkersloot (71), dirksland (goeree overflakkee)
• Adrianus Langewisch (62), Arnhem
• Adriana PARLEVLIET (79), Katwijk
• Catharina de Reus (65), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Timmer (67), Staphorst, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba Pieternella Bruinooge (50), 's Gravenhage

• 1952 » Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia († 2003)
• 1953 » Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author
• 1953 » Robert Cray, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 » Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
• 1954 » James Gleick, American journalist and author
• 1954 » Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer († 2006)
• 1957 » Taylor Negron, American actor and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1958 » Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player and coach
• 1958 » Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter († 2000)

• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (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. 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.
• 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.
• April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
• April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
• 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 1 » The Vietnam War begins.
• December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The temperature on August 1, 1955 was between 11.5 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.