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• Rudolph M.E. van Apeldoorn, Den Haag († 2001)
• N.n. van Meel, Roosendaal en Nispen († 1953)
• Linda J VanZeeland, Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin (USA) († 2000)
• Hermanus Theodorus Bouwhuis, Brockville, Canada († 2006)
• Elise Marie Josephine Daemen, Doenrade (Oirsbeek)(Lb)
• Erna Vanmoortel († 2012)
• Etienne Vanstraelen († 2022)
• Egbert Meyer, Den Haag († 1993)
• Dirk Cornelis "Dick" Rotteveel, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• N.N. Dool, Leiden († 1953)

• Bernardus Gritter (64), Peize
• Anna Elisabeth van Bruggen (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Arthur Carson (64), Ft. Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida
• "Gabriel" Marie Josseph Henri Lachèze (72), Hautefort, Dordogne, France
• Cornelia Cornnelisdr. van der Mark (71), Voorburg
• Arnoldus Gijbels (78), Luijksgestel
• Aagje Schong (63), Den Helder
• Aagje Schong (63), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonio José Marques da Costa Soares (76), Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
• Adrianus hovenstad (89), Rhenen

• 1951 » Fred Seibert, owner of Nickelodeon and Frederator Studios
• 1951 » Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1951 » Pete Carroll, American football player and coach
• 1952 » Kelly Keagy, American singer and drummer
• 1952 » Paula Duncan, Australian actress
• 1952 » Ratnajeevan Hoole, Sri Lankan engineer and academic
• 1952 » Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1953 » Keiko Takeshita, Japanese actress
• 1954 » Adrian Adonis, American wrestler († 1988)
• 1954 » Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist († 2007)

• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (b. 1881)
• 1952 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Steve Brown, American bassist (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Baki Süha Ediboğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1915)
• 1972 » Geoffrey Fisher, English archbishop and academic (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1906)

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.
• May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
• June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
• September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.

The temperature on September 15, 1953 was between 9.4 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.