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• Femmigje Rinzema († 2008)
• Lammert Koetsier, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 2006)
• Robert Charles Dotinga († 2005)
• Willem (Wim) Karsdorp († 2018)
• Marianne R. Steiner († 1981)
• J. Dijkstra, Haarlem († 1998)
• Loes Schijvens, Valkenswaard,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• Theodorus Anthonius Warmerdam, Hillegom († 2013)
• Christopher Merle Shirley, Oklahoma City († 2012)
• Geoffrey William Klingberg († 1955)

• Angelina Amelia Anthonis (72), Bouwel Grobbendonk, België
• Aloisius VERSLYPE (85)
• Adriana van Keppel (64), Rotterdam
• Alberdina Noord (80), Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Aloisius Breyne (86), Leisele West-vlaanderen België
• Belzora Belle Marshall Haney (79), Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
• Aaldert Doldersum (81), Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Van GAMEREN (82), Ridderkerk
• Adriana van Gameren (82), Ridderkerk
• Barbera Beukers (82), Ravenstein-Noord-Brabant-Nederland

• 1951 » Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter († 2001)
• 1952 » Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 1952 » Charlie Spedding, English runner
• 1953 » Florin Marin, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge, Scottish lawyer and judge
• 1953 » Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
• 1953 » Victoria Wood, English actress, singer, director, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1954 » Hōchū Ōtsuka, Japanese voice actor
• 1954 » Phil Rudd, Australian-New Zealand drummer
• 1954 » Rick Cerone, American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1939 » Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Philipp Bouhler, German soldier and politician (b. 1889)
• 1946 » Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (b. 1869)
• 1950 » Daniel Ciugureanu, Romanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1884)
• 1954 » Charles Ives, American composer and educator (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870)
• 1958 » Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (b. 1871)

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 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
• January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
• February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• 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.
• July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
• October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.

The temperature on May 19, 1953 was between 10.7 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.