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• Yolande Helena van der Noll, Santpoort († 2003)
• Thomas Adrianus Maria Krook, Canberra,ACT, Australië († 2001)
• Marvin Keith Klingenberg, Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa († 1953)
• Petronella Hendrika Straatman, 's-Gravenhage († 2018)
• Daniel Francisco Rozo Maldonado, Bogotá,Colombia († 1956)
• Gerardus Petrus Grimmelikhuizen, Den Haag († 1973)
• Peter Graaff († 1953)
• Prive Wolfs, enter
• Theo van Deursen, Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1981)
• Christinus Johannes Zijlmans, Delft, Nederland († 2013)

• Bernardus Sondag (41)
• Arend Jan Welmerink (74), Neede
• Elsie May Fletcher (61), Bingara, New South Wales, Australia
• Arendje van Duijn (80), Leiden
• Bernardus Johannes Lambertus Sondag (41)
• Aartje Cornelia van Deelen (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina van der Huizen (64), Leiden
• Barbara Bentum (78), Wildervank
• Dirk Verburg (80), Katwijk
• Dirkje Schreven (79)

• 1951 » Bert Blyleven, Dutch-American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1951 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French skier, mountaineer, and pilot († 1990)
• 1951 » Pascal Rogé, French pianist
• 1951 » Phil Schaap, American jazz disc jockey and historian
• 1952 » Marilu Henner, Greek-Polish American actress and author
• 1952 » Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager († 1992)
• 1952 » Udo Dirkschneider, German singer-songwriter
• 1953 » Christopher Franke, German-American drummer and songwriter
• 1953 » Patrick Doyle, Scottish actor and composer
• 1955 » Rob Epstein, American director and producer

• 1935 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
• 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1950 » Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Idris Davies, Welsh poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)

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.
• January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
• April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
• August 12 » The 7.2 M_s  Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
• August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

The temperature on April 6, 1953 was between 4.3 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.