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• Arie Langedijk († 1977)
• Petrus Adrianus Maria Schepers, Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1953)
• johanna gerarda odilia maria (jeanne) wijnhoven, baarlo
• Gijsbert Bezemer († 2016)
• Femke De Hoop († 2006)
• Levenloos kind Hornstra († 1953)
• Jacob Pieter Huisman, Papekop († 2013)
• Joseph Robert Larson, unbekannt († 2000)
• Hendrik Foppen, Ermelo († 2010)
• N.N. Baeten, Breda († 1953)

• Adriana Cornelis Maria van Dongen (51), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Albertus Cornelis maria Kras (4), Edam Volendam
• Agatha Alexander (51), Paramaribo Suriname
• Adrian Aaron DaCosta (81), 12 Upper Elleston Street Kingston, Jamaica
• August Martin Blix (64), Oak Park, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Aaltje Borgers (64), Otterlo, Gld, NL
• Adrianus Antonius Vos (73), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnold Barnes (64)
• Adelheid Scholte Aalbers (72), Emmen (Amsterdamseveld)
• Antje Schoehuijs (78), Oost-Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1951 » Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist
• 1951 » Verdine White, American bass player and producer
• 1952 » Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect, designed the Estádio Municipal de Braga
• 1953 » Joseph A. Tunzi, Chicago based author, foremost expert on Elvis Presley
• 1953 » Robert Zoellick, American banker and politician, 14th United States Deputy Secretary of State
• 1954 » Jochem Ziegert, German footballer and manager
• 1954 » Ken Greer, Canadian guitarist, keyboard player, and producer
• 1954 » Sheena McDonald, Scottish journalist
• 1954 » Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver († 1999)
• 1955 » Iman, Somalian-English model and actress

• 1942 » Fred Englehardt, American triple jumper (b. 1879)
• 1952 » Herbert Murrill, English organist and composer (b. 1909)
• 1958 » Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
• 1959 » Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Irish rabbi and author (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (b. 1877)
• 1966 » Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 1967 » Konstantinos Parthenis, Egyptian-Greek painter (b. 1878)
• 1971 » John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (b. 1896)

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 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.
• March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
• April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
• May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
• October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
• 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 July 25, 1953 was between 11.2 °C and 27.3 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.