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• Arend Bruintjes, Vollenhove († 2008)
• Gerardus Keuker
• Anne Middelkoop, Giessendam († 2021)
• Akky de Vries, Hoornsterzwaag (F)
• Robert Wade Whiting, Dewitt, Arkansas, Arkansas († 1982)
• Willy Olijnsma-, Gytsjerk, Nederland († 2007)
• Peter Verstappen, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands († 1997)
• Vaatstra, Broek, Skarsterlân, Friesland, Nederland († 1953)
• Joseph Martin Seelen, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1954)
• Carla Zonneveld, Beverwijk († 1999)

• Aagje DOES (75), Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje PHIEFFER (86), Kandiyohi, Minnesota
• Alfred Vande Walle (68), Astene, België
• Aaltje Spiegeler (74), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agnes Cecile Burgemeestre (58), Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Telleman (61), Alkmaar
• Bartel Vollaard (78), Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Albert Bergdorf (69), Nowata, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Margaretha van der Goot (82), Bussum
• Alidorus Camillus Vansteenkiste (68), Rumbeke

• 1950 » Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1952 » André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
• 1952 » John Mitchell, English footballer, forward
• 1952 » Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer
• 1953 » Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion
• 1954 » Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor
• 1956 » Lesley Manville, English actress
• 1956 » Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1956 » Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper († 2010)
• 1956 » Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter

• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)

• 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 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
• January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
• May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
• August 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
• September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends

The temperature on March 12, 1953 was between -0.7 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.