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• Fennie Soetevent († 2016)
• Maria Anna Arnolda Vandeven, Valkenswaard, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Wim Hendrix, Haelen († 2013)
• Kindje Minkema, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 1953)
• Rolvink, Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Larry Patrick Hazel, Hennepin (Minnesota, VS) († 2016)
• Robert Andre SPRONG, Hilversum († 2015)
• Patrick Gabriel Begley, Creggan, Westmeath, Ireland († 2007)
• Patricia Ann Eleveld, Hinsdale, DuPage, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Johannes Josephus Koopmanschap, Abcoude, Utrecht, Nederland († 1998)

• Anton Ludwigs Reelfs (76), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anton Polderman (72), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Nienhuis (70)
• Anna Eden (81), Rhede
• Camillus Cyrillus Vanmaekelbergh (70), Poperinge
• Bernardus Houthoff (83), Leiden
• Arnoldus Adrianus Maria van Roessel (61), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Augustinus Rooze (67), Raalte, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Frederika Maria Leistikow (74), Jutphaas
• Berend van Raalten (83), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1951 » Craig Ramsay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1951 » Kurt Russell, American actor and producer
• 1951 » Scott Gorham, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Barry Horne, English activist († 2001)
• 1953 » Chuck Muncie, American football player († 2013)
• 1953 » Filemon Lagman, Filipino activist († 2001)
• 1954 » Lesley-Anne Down, English actress
• 1955 » Cynthia McKinney, American activist and politician
• 1955 » Gary Sinise, American actor, director, and bass player
• 1955 » Paul Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)
• 1961 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860)
• 1965 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862)

• 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.
• February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
• March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
• May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• 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 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The temperature on March 17, 1953 was between -2.9 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.