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• Christina Hillegonda Margaretha Sneeboer, Hensbroek († 2018)
• Jacoba Bernarda Ouwehand, Katwijk († 2006)
• Judy D. Horton [Wk || Bu\ († 1993)
• Cindy McDiarmid Turcotte Mitchell, Pensacola Escambia, Florida († 2008)
• Bernardus Johannes Joseph Kamphuis, Hengelo († 2024)
• Celestial Danette Tharp, Conway,Horry County,South Carolina († 1953)
• Freddy Huyskens, Lier, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2006)
• Fedde Westra, Goïngarijp, Friesland, Nederland († 2018)
• (levenloos) Hoogenbosch, Texel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1953)
• Harm Roetman, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland († 2007)

• Aleida Maria Catharina Bredewold (85), Arnhem (GL)
• Albert Franciscus VERHULST (37)
• (90), Saint François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, Montmagny, Québec
• Anna BRAND (79), 's-Gravendeel
• Alida Sieraal (87), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Maria Kuipers (92), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Maten (82), Deventer
• Adriana Maria (Zr. Marcella Vekemans (79), Moergestel
• Aaltje van den Bor (62), Putten
• Adriana Catharina Maria Kuijpers (92), Delft

• 1948 » Billy Crystal, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1948 » Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor
• 1948 » Tom Coburn, American physician and politician († 2020)
• 1950 » Rick Dees, American actor and radio host
• 1951 » Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's
• 1953 » Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1955 » Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1956 » Alexey Pajitnov, Russian video game designer and computer engineer, creator of Tetris
• 1956 » Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach
• 1957 » Tad Williams, American author

• 1932 » George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
• 1953 » Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 14th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1896)
• 1957 » Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)
• 1965 » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
• 1975 » Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1976 » Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (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. 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 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• July 26 » Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
• August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
• September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.

The temperature on March 14, 1953 was between -0.1 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.