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• Geertruida Maria Gerarda (Trudie) Berkelmans, Zeist († 2001)
• Pieter Zonneveld, Schiedam († 1953)
• FRancientje van Thiel, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• Sjoerd Bakker († 2018)
• Janny Zwiers, Oosterhesselen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Kanaal († 2012)
• Sjoerd Bakker († 2018)
• Paul Meekers, Brussel, België († 2015)
• Gerrit Mees, Middelstum († 2000)
• Etienne Ruyssinck, Hamme (Oost-Vlaanderen) België-Belgium († 2018)
• Johanna Schuitemaker, Ursem († 2023)

• Cornelia Jansje Viergever (46)
• Catrinus Sjoerds Dijkstra (91), Piaam
• Dorothea Elisabeth Rijnenberg (70)
• Charles Claeys (68), Oostkamp
• Cornelia Maria Calkhoven (55), Nijverdal/Hellndoom
• Catrinus Dijkstra (91), Piaam, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alexander Moon (59), Mt. Morris, Greene County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• ABRAHAM HENDRICUS VAN DER LINDE (89), 'S-GRAVENHAGE
• Cornelus Klerkx (67), 's Hertogenbosch
• Catrinus Sjoerds Dijkstra (91), Piaam, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1952 » Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2010)
• 1952 » John Emburey, English cricketer and coach
• 1952 » John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Ric Menello, American director and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1953 » Gerry Bertier, American football player († 1981)
• 1953 » Jim Trenton, American radio host and actor
• 1953 » Leroy Burgess, American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer
• 1953 » Mike Jackson, American politician
• 1953 » Peter Horton, American actor and director
• 1954 » Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach

• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)

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.
• February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
• June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
• August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
• August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
• September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The temperature on August 20, 1953 was between 13.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.