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• Andries Bergheger, amsterdam, Nederland († 2018)
• Seije Landheer, Steenwijk († 1997)
• N.N. van den Boogaart, Gilze en Rijen († 1953)
• Jan van den Born, Hasselt (B) († 1996)
• Jacobje de VRIES, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 2022)
• Johannes Cornelis Maria Ari√´ns, Nederasselt, Gemeente Heumen, Gelderland, Niederlande († 2006)
• Bert Simonis, Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland († 2001)
• Hendrik Reininga († 1978)
• Harry Dijkhuizen († 2023)
• Maria Jannetje van de Werken, Noordwijkerhout († 2004)

• Douwe Johannes Hotzes Talman (80), Oldeboorn
• Adriaan Aalburg (84), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eliza de Kuijper (82)
• Cornelis Johannes Ackerman (27), BredA
• Charles Franklin Wood (71), Van Buren, Arkansas, United States
• Amanda Abigail Wiant (54)
• Anna Maria van de Water (82), 's-Gravenhage, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Gans (40), Leiderdorp
• Catrina van Sloten (81), Hoogezand, Midden-Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• David Joziasse (86), Middelburg, Walcheren, Zeeland, NL

• 1951 » Brian Grazer, American screenwriter and producer, founded Imagine Entertainment
• 1951 » Cheryl Ladd, American actress
• 1951 » Joan Bauer, American author
• 1951 » Piotr Pustelnik, Polish mountaineer
• 1952 » Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1952 » Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player († 1995)
• 1952 » Voja Antonić, Serbian computer scientist and journalist, designed the Galaksija computer
• 1954 » Eric Adams, American singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Robert Carl, American pianist and composer
• 1954 » Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer and coach

• 1944 » Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1949 » Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (b. 1860)
• 1950 » Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (b. 1865)
• 1956 » John Hayes, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1868)
• 1961 » Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1962 » Roger Wolfe Kahn, American composer and bandleader (b. 1907)

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 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
• May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
• July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
• 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.
• December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

The temperature on July 12, 1953 was between 9.9 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.