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• Petertje (Peetje) van den Hardenberg, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 2013)
• Petertje van den Hardenberg, Elspeet († 2013)
• Peggy Lee Johnson, of Utah, United States († 1953)
• Illona Leygraf, Rheinberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1997)
• Marina Helena van Panhuis, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2023)
• Frank Rolink († 2006)
• Marretje Post, Urk († 2016)
• Pamela Christine Musacchio, Fresno, Fresno, California, Verenigde Staten († 1988)
• Levenloos kind Dekker, Harderwijk († 1953)
• Frans Andreas Gerritsen, Balikpapan, Borneo, Indonesië († 2012)

• Anne De Vries (55)
• Adriana de Laat (74), Vlijmen
• Anna Elizabeth Rutges (84), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Jacobus VAN STADEN (16)
• Anna Elisabeth Rutges (84), delft
• Andries Struiksma (67), Het Bildt
• Bartholomeus Neuteboom (74), Leiden
• Arij Bras (78), Schiedam
• Arij Bras (78), schiedam
• anne aukus de vries (55), bantega

• 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)

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. John
14. Dirk
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. Helena

• 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 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
• April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• 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 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
• 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.