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• Paul L Fountaine, Syracuse, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Patrice Materne († 2006)
• Theresia Margo Henrica van Houtum, Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• George Bert Folkers, Steenwijk († 1985)
• Jean Claude GIRARD, Amsterdam (Noord-Holland), Nederland († 1953)
• Arend Mulder († 1981)
• Lya Liet, Rheden († 1962)
• Jitske Cnossen († 2021)
• Paulus Adrianus Maria van der Kraan, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)
• Doodgeboren Savelkoul, Grevenbicht, Provincie Limburg, Nederland († 1953)

• Aaltien Boerema (80), Vries, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Drewes (82), Amsterdam
• Antje Otter (80), Nijehorne
• Arie Eijkelenboom (62), Rotterdam
• Anje Huis (91), Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana de Graaf (42), Utrecht
• Anje Huis (93), Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie Jacob van Tielen (88), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Angelina Verwimp (73), Herenthout, België
• Antje Witteveen (28), Nieuwerkerk

• 1948 » Austin Carr, American basketball player
• 1952 » Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe († 2018)
• 1953 » Paul Haggis, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 » Toshio Suzuki, Japanese race car driver
• 1956 » Larry Myricks, American long jumper and sprinter
• 1956 » Robert Llewellyn, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda († 2011)
• 1958 » Garth Crooks, English footballer forward and sportscaster
• 1958 » Sharon Stone, American actress and producer
• 1958 » Steve Howe, American baseball player († 2006)

• 1925 » Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (b. 1884)
• 1940 » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1942 » Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1951 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1977 » E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (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.
• January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
• May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• June 8 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
• July 26 » Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River, just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War.
• October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
• October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.

The temperature on March 10, 1953 was between 0.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.