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• Levenloos kind Dekker, Harderwijk († 1953)
• Johannes Bartholomeus Maria Heemskerk, Haarlem, NHO, Nederland († 1972)
• Gerrit Jan Nijsink, Rijssen († 1999)
• Anneliese van Leeuwen († 1969)
• Frank Rolink († 2006)
• Johannes Barthlms Heemskerk-RK, Haarlem († 1972)
• Harry Hazekamp († 2020)
• N.N. DEKKER, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1953)
• Geertrui de Bruin († 2010)
• Jim Levi Francisco, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, United States of America († 2005)

• Anna Margaretha Diederen (36), Hoensbroek, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrian Ed de de Rijken (74), Meckling, Clay Co., South Dakota, USA (buried Lutheran Cemetery)
• Arij Bras (78), schiedam
• Antonius Louwers (81), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Baas (79)
• Arij Bras (78), Schiedam
• Andries Struiksma (67), Het Bildt
• Anne Maat (74)
• Anna Elizabeth Rutges (84), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Adrianus Kapsenberg (68), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1950 » John Dowling Coates, Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman
• 1950 » Randall "Tex" Cobb, American boxer and actor
• 1953 » Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient († 1982)
• 1953 » Pat McInally, American football player and coach
• 1954 » Amy Heckerling, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 » Joanna Haigh, English meteorologist and physicist
• 1954 » Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist
• 1955 » Axel Zwingenberger, German pianist and songwriter
• 1955 » Ben Poquette, American basketball player
• 1955 » Clément Gignac, Canadian politician

• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » Margaret Larkin, American writer and poet (b. 1899)

• 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 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
• September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
• October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
• November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
• December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

The temperature on May 7, 1953 was between 2.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.