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• Dorothea Maria van Delft († 1983)
• Gerardus Antonius Wolvenne, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1995)
• adriana maria giovanni dominica (marriana) vestjens, helden-egchel
• Dorothea Maria van Delft († 1983)
• Lambertus Lukas de Roo († 2018)
• Geertruida Regina Maria (Trudie) Geijn, van de, Druten († 2009)
• Rita Emma Josepha Breugelmans, Wuustwezel († 2009)
• Anjes Aloysia Maria Van Oers, Arnhem, Nederland († 2004)
• Gerald smith
• David Lee Bane, Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana, United States of America († 2010)

• Beligje KALKMAN (54), Gouda,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Jacobus Harmse (62), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertha Fennechiena Bergmeester (46), Assen
• Antonius Henskens (54), Eindhoven
• Anna Catharina Albertina Nys (69), Arendonk,Antwerpen,Belgium
• Bella Goudsmith (51), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiaantje Meijdam (36), Vianen
• Catherine van Dijk (87), Sully, Jasper County, Iowa
• Charles Louis Denys (93), Zarren West-Vlaanderen, België
• Carmella "Nellie" Mecca (90), Shelton, Fairfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten

• 1951 » Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
• 1951 » Jonathan Richman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » James Herndon, American psychologist and academic
• 1953 » David Maclean, Scottish politician
• 1953 » Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna († 2015)
• 1953 » Peter Onorati, American actor
• 1953 » Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer
• 1953 » Richard Page, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1953 » Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman, Scottish judge and academic
• 1954 » Dafydd Williams, Canadian physician and astronaut

• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)
• 1955 » James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)
• 1955 » Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1956 » H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1961 » George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)

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.
• February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
• April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends

The temperature on May 16, 1953 was between 12.8 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.