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• hendrica catharina minderhoud, oost-souburg
• N.N. Voogd, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1953)
• Gijsbert van der Plas, Leiden († 2000)
• Germ Jongedijk († 1988)
• Theodorus Cornlis van Mil, Schiedam († 2005)
• Anita Elisabeth Zwart, Amsterdam († 2003)
• Wilma Braam, Nijmegen, Nederland († 2009)
• Omar Fuente Sr. († 1985)
• Anita Elisabeth Zwart, amsterdam († 2003)
• Maria Wilhelmina Winanda Slangen, Hoensbroek († 1954)

• Adriana Jaspers (77), Rucphen
• Cornelia Johanna Anthonisse (63), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Catharina Seegers (74), Renkum
• Alida Cobussen (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Hiemstra (65)
• Candilla Brito (74)
• Alfons Cyrille Van Neste (88), Houthulst West-Vlaanderen
• Alfredo Conrado de Niemeyer (80)
• Adrianus de Ruiter (86), Rotterdam
• Anna Augusteijn (88), Rotterdam

• 1950 » Haris Alexiou, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1951 » Ernesto Zedillo, Mexican economist and politician, 54th President of Mexico
• 1952 » David Knopfler, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1952 » Jay Hill, Canadian farmer and politician
• 1952 » Tovah Feldshuh, American actress, singer, and playwright
• 1954 » Edmund Zagorski, American convicted murderer († 2018)
• 1954 » Mandie Fletcher, English director, producer, and production manager
• 1954 » Teo Chee Hean, Singaporean politician and 5th Senior Minister of Singapore
• 1955 » Barbara Olson, American journalist and author († 2001)
• 1955 » Brad Murphey, American race car driver

• 1939 » Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (b. 1877)
• 1943 » Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1887)
• 1950 » Max Beckmann, German-American painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian priest, author, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1953 » Şükrü Saracoğlu, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Julian Tuwim, Polish poet and author (b. 1894)
• 1955 » Alfred Carpenter, English admiral, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1881)
• 1956 » Lambert McKenna, Irish priest and lexicographer (b. 1870)
• 1958 » Harry Warner, Polish-American film producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)

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. Yvonne
11. Margaretha
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.
• 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 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
• April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
• April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
• July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
• July 26 » Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement

The temperature on December 27, 1953 was between 4.2 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.