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• Jarig Zondervan, Blokzijl († 1955)
• Johan Sabbe, Roeselare († 2020)
• Jan Gerards van Benthem, Zwartsluis († 2010)
• David Robert Eberhard, Eudunda, South Australia, Australia († 1996)
• Levenloos Passenier, Domburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 1953)
• Gerardus Joseph Johannes Mennen, Haelen († 2009)
• Cornelia Zandsteeg, Ede († 1953)
• Nn Zandsteeg († 1953)
• Rhonda Lourene Lester, Panther, Sandy River Distr, McDowell Cnty, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Jarig Gerrits Zondervan, Blokzijl, Overijssel, Nederland († 1955)

• Antonie Reedijk (87), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Oldenburg (67), Vlissingen, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Antonie (Anthonie) van de Waardt (66), Vlaardingen
• Alida Hilhorst (98), Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna van Geel (71), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alstje Koster (72), Loppersum, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adrianus Janssen, Rotterdam
• andries BOS (76), rotterdam
• Anna Hendrina Kokke (77), Nijmegen
• Adolph Stokdyk (74), Sheboygan, Wisconsin

• 1950 » Peter Marinello, Scottish footballer, forward
• 1950 » Walter Becker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2017)
• 1951 » Edward Albert, American actor († 2006)
• 1951 » Gordon Brown, Scottish historian and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1951 » Phil Neal, English footballer and manager
• 1951 » Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1997)
• 1953 » Poison Ivy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1954 » Anthony Head, English actor
• 1954 » Jon Brant, American bass player
• 1954 » Patty Hearst, American actress and author

• 1933 » Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (b. 1878)
• 1961 » Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)

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.
• January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
• May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
• June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• 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.
• October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.

The temperature on February 20, 1953 was between 4.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.