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• Frits Klutzow, Den Haag († 2018)
• Levenloos Metselaar, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Wilhelmina Hendrika Bloemers, Apeldoorn
• Herman Belt († 2017)
• Dennis Huisman († 2005)
• Annemaria Barbara Dieteren, Spaubeek,, Limburg, Nederland († 1972)
• Dennis Benjamin Clifton, Perry, County, Missouri († 1953)
• Omko Oesebrand Geertsema († 2012)
• Janet Ellen Jack, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• "François" Emmanuel Jacques de Galard Terraube, Lyon († 2005)

• Annigje Voerman (47), Baarn
• Albert Dirk Hagoort (59), Woerden
• Adriana Joosen (67), Breda
• Sanders (88), Roosteren, Li.NL
• Carlyle Percival Jones (57), Decatur, Macon, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan Michiel HOEKMAN (70), Nassau TWP, Douglas, South Dakota
• Bastiaan (Cap)(Bert) van Veen (74), Pella, Marion Co., Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Dommerholt (68), Twello, Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Christina Ter HORST (57), Amsterdam
• Carolus Ludovicus Breemeersch (87), Oudenburg

• 1950 » Bjørn Kjellemyr, Norwegian bassist and composer
• 1951 » Gary Rossington, American guitarist
• 1951 » Patricia Wettig, American actress and playwright
• 1953 » Jean-Marie Pfaff, Belgian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Rick Middleton, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1955 » Cassandra Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1955 » Dave Taylor, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1955 » Philip Hammond, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1956 » Bernard King, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1956 » Nia Griffith, Welsh educator and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales

• 1938 » Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Fritz Löhner-Beda, Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of Estonia (b. 1885)
• 1944 » Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1945 » Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1948 » Frank Benford, American physicist and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1954 » George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (b. 1881)
• 1955 » József Galamb, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Constance Davey, Australian psychologist (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)

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. John
14. Dirk
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.
• March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
• May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• 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.
• November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

The temperature on December 4, 1953 was between 8.2 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.