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• Wilbert Henricus Johannes Maria Hamers, Tilburg († 1953)
• Constance Theodora Hoogervorst, Haarlem († 2016)
• Hedwine De Praeter († 1953)
• Dale R. Reiter, fortasse, quodam loco, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Homer Steve Moore [WkWk* BthlRdgMBu]Wk2, Pulaski County, Kentucky († 2010)
• Ivan L. "Butch" Golder, Bridgewater, McCook Co., SD († 1988)
• Nicolaas Jan van ZWEEDEN, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aly van Bijsteren, Harderwijk (Gelderland, Nederland) († 2023)
• Antonius de Vree, Dreumel, Gelderland, Nederland († 2005)
• Joke Liebrand, Oeffelt († 2016)

• Agneta Sophia Van Oudheusden (77), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Geertrui van der Zanden (81), Lith
• Adriana Korteweg (87), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hilberta Hessels (69), Diever
• Adriana Vonk (62), Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis(Andrew) Cornelius Ippel (69), Sheboygan (Wisconsin, USA)
• Aart Schaftenaar (82), Harderwijk, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelius Anthonius Drabbe (68), Naaldwijk
• Anna Margaretha Wilde (72), St. Elizabeth, Miller, Missouri, United States
• Adrianus Cornelis Anthonius Drabbe (68), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1949 » Dennis Green, American football player and coach († 2016)
• 1949 » Fred Frith, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1951 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani soldier and pilot († 1971)
• 1952 » Karin Büttner-Janz, German gymnast and physician
• 1952 » Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player († 1991)
• 1954 » Lou Ann Barton, American blues singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Miki Berkovich, Israeli basketball player
• 1954 » Rene Russo, American actress
• 1955 » Mo Yan, Chinese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 » Richard Karn, American actor and game show host

• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
• 1946 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Robert
8. Peter
9. Pieter
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Jacobus
13. Dirk
14. John
15. Wilhelmus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Margaretha
11. Yvonne
12. Petronella
13. Geertruida
14. Linda
15. Alida
16. Jacoba

• 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 10.4 million citizens.
• January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
• March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
• April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
• June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
• November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

The temperature on February 17, 1953 was between -2.8 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.