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• Antonia Catharina van den Nobelen, Standdaarbuiten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Peter Arend Dammers, Ymuiden († 2023)
• Heinrich Lühn, Wietmarschen, Dld († 1989)
• Fedde Anne Zijlstra († 2012)
• Marie-Jeanne Hoste, Diksmuide West-Vlaanderen, België († 2017)
• Cornelis Willem van den Oever, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Anna Christina van Woerdekom († 2008)
• Maria (Marieke) Snippe, Nieuwlande († 1972)
• Brigitte Keunen, Tilburg NB Netherlands († 1981)
• Robert Allen Edwards († 2011)

• Arie Zeeders (73), Terschelling, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Dymphna Appels (87), Goirle, Gemeente Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Johannes (Han) Lafeber (45), Veenendaal, Utrecht Nederland
• Antonia Adriana van Arum (75), Haarlem
• Adriana van Kins (67), Voorschoten
• Aaltje Jongsma (1), Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands
• Abraham van der Lugt (75), Delft, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Annegje Pool (86), Aduard
• Antonia van Halderen (36), Oosterhout
• Anna Johanna Hoefs (41), Veghel

• 1950 » Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress
• 1953 » Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1954 » Jerry Moran, American lawyer and politician
• 1954 » Robert Beaser, American composer and educator
• 1955 » David Kirschner, American animator, producer, and author
• 1955 » Frank Baumgartl, German runner († 2010)
• 1955 » Gordon Rintoul, Scottish historian and curator
• 1955 » John Hinckley Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
• 1955 » Ken Schrader, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1956 » Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations

• 1941 » Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 » John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 » May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1957 » James Whale, English director (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Netta Muskett, English author (b. 1887)

• 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.
• June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
• 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.
• June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

The temperature on May 29, 1953 was between 7.9 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.