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• Ernst Sommer († 2014)
• Dirk Vos
• Nelleke Wiegmans, Bussum († 2014)
• Linda Fay WIERSEMA, Tacoma Pierce County Washington U.S.A († 1992)
• Jan Huisjes († 1953)
• NN Rotjes, Venray († 1953)
• Hein Sietsma, Emmen († 1953)
• Hendrikus Raymundes van Loon, Tilburg († 2006)
• Beverly J. Leppert, St. Clairsville, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1981)
• Bram Zwart, Kloosterburen, Groningen, Nederland († 2006)

• Bernard Roelofs (63), Hengelo,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Christina Elisabeth Ringnalda (89)
• Antje Knol (94)
• Aagina Aaltina Wieringa (69), Veendam
• Albartus Dijkema (75), Wijster
• Cornelis de Wilde, Utrecht
• Antonia van Balsvoort (88), Wijk en Aalburg
• Cornelis 'Cees' Barnhoorn (83), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christoffer Starke (79), Oude-Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Constant Balduck (80), Ieper

• 1950 » Andy North, American golfer
• 1950 » Doug Ault, American baseball player and manager († 2004)
• 1950 » Howard Shelley, English pianist and conductor
• 1951 » Helen Zille, South African journalist, politician and Premier of the Western Cape
• 1952 » Bill Beaumont, English rugby player and manager
• 1954 » Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer; Irish republican politician († 1981)
• 1954 » Carlos Ghosn, Brazilian-Lebanese-French business executive
• 1954 » Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle racer († 1982)
• 1955 » Józef Pinior, Polish academic and politician
• 1955 » Teo Fabi, Italian race car driver

• 1926 » Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (b. 1865)
• 1937 » Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (b. 1864)
• 1943 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1954 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)

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. Yvonne
11. Margaretha
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 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.
• March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
• July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
• September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
• November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.

The temperature on March 9, 1953 was between -1.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.