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• Mary Johanna Booij († 2005)
• Gerhardus Johannes Severus (Gerard) Lindeman, Hengelo († 2011)
• Hans van Elferen († 1997)
• Gerhardus Johannes Serverus Lindeman, Hengelo († 2011)
• Annemie de Ruyter, Nijmegen († 2007)
• Benny Schutijzer, Opbrakel, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 2017)
• Egbert Jan Snoek, Nieuwlande, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1989)
• Levenloos van Wieringen, goes († 1953)
• Corrie Smit, Zaandam, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Mary Booij († 2005)

• Aaltje Spin * (64), Steenwijk
• Adrienne Adamina Henriette Boon Hartsinck (74), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Spin (64), Steenwijk
• Aagje Hermina Fokker (66), Vinkeveen &, Waverveen
• Anthonia Alida van den Bos (66)
• Adam Morrow* Adams [Wk 013] (73), Pulaski County, Kentucky
• Anthonie Cornelsz Colijn (82), Leiden
• * Bastiaan Bron (53), Nieuwland
• Adriana Smeets (79), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Adriana Bouw (0), Ede

• 1950 » Jonathan Freeman, American actor and singer
• 1951 » Nikolay Merkushkin, Mordovian engineer and politician, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia
• 1952 » Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter and producer († 1986)
• 1952 » Vladimir Moskovkin, Ukrainian-Russian geographer, economist, and academic
• 1953 » Freddie Aguilar, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 » Gustavo Benítez, Paraguayan footballer and manager
• 1953 » John Beilein, American basketball player and coach
• 1954 » Cliff Martinez, American drummer and songwriter
• 1954 » Frank Walker, Australian journalist and author
• 1955 » Mike Heath, American baseball player and manager

• 1941 » Banjo Paterson, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1875)
• 1946 » George Arliss, English actor and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1948 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
• 1952 » Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (b. 1877)
• 1954 » Hossein Sami'i, Iranian politician, diplomat, writer and poet (b. 1876)
• 1955 » Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
• 1957 » Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon and author (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Jacques Ibert, French-Swiss composer (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Leon Leonwood Bean, American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872)

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.
• April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
• 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 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
• 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.
• September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
• September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.

The temperature on February 5, 1953 was between -0.2 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.