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• Mark A SEGER († 1988)
• Hans Poortland († 2003)
• Byron Beck, Los Angeles, California († 2009)
• Guido Geenen, Arendonk (B), België († 1992)
• Aldert Klaas de Ridder, De Cocksdorp († 1992)
• Nellie van Asten, Venray,, Limburg, Nederland († 2011)
• Franciscus Martinus Maria Ernst, Rotterdam († 2005)
• Adrianus Cornelis Maria Ligtenberg, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hendrik Vooijs, Katwijk († 2002)
• Regina Lambrecht, Kortrijk (B) († 1967)

• Anna Barbara Brull (74), Spekholzerheide, Limburg, Nederland
• Arend Pluim (80), Wanneperveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catharina Stakenburg (75), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arend Pluim (80), Wanneperveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bernardus van Abswoude (66), Hillegom
• Cornelis Antonius Willem (Cor) Hermus (63), Amsterdam
• Abraham Meerman (86), Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland
• Christina PRINSEN (78), Voorburg
• Anna Barbara Brüll (74)
• Cornelis Knier (51), Harlingen

• 1949 » Jim Broadbent, English actor
• 1949 » Roger Deakins , English cinematographer
• 1953 » Alfred Molina, English actor
• 1955 » Philippe Lafontaine, Belgian singer and songwriter
• 1955 » Rajesh Roshan, Indian composer
• 1955 » Rosanne Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » Dominic Grieve, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1956 » Larry Blackmon, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1956 » Michael Jackson, Irish archbishop
• 1956 » R. B. Bernstein, American constitutional historian

• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)

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 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
• 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.
• June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• 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.
• July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
• November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.

The temperature on May 24, 1953 was between 10.8 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.