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• Ewout Piso, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Siska Bosma, Leeuwrden († 2014)
• Anthonius Hendrikus Maria Hoos, Nijmegen († 1953)
• Levenloos Kind Piso, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Marinus Harmanus Heimeriks, Coevorden († 2012)
• Johannes Jozef "Jan " kraakman, Noord-Scharwoude († 2013)
• Lionel Cuvelier, Jurbise, Jurbeke, Hainaut, Belgium († 1977)
• Johannes Jacobus Mekel, Leiden († 2014)
• William GARLAND, LaJolla California U.S.A († 1974)
• Kevin Dean Orton, Princetown, MN

• Barend Pijpers (71), Bunschoten, Nederland
• Albert Alen (61), Waanrode
• Antje Adriana Huis (63), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Benedictus Johannes Maria Holtmaat (8), Zwolle
• Arie Bos (81), Maasland (Midden-Delfland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria BLOEM (95), Breda, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands
• Catherine Winter (72), Ransom, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Delphina Felicita Manders (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Arnoldus Crum (66), Dodewaard (GL)
• Cornelis Schilder (76), Edam Volendam (Nederland)

• 1951 » Dan Driessen, American baseball player and coach
• 1951 » Susan Blackmore, English psychologist and theorist
• 1952 » Joe Johnson, English snooker player and sportscaster
• 1952 » Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician
• 1952 » Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, English businessman and politician
• 1953 » Frank McGuinness, Irish poet and playwright
• 1953 » Geddy Lee, Canadian musician
• 1953 » Ken Burns, American director and producer
• 1953 » Tim Gunn, American television host and actor
• 1954 » Patti Scialfa, American musician

• 1938 » Nikolai Krylenko, Russian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (b. 1885)
• 1950 » Joe Fry, English race car driver (b. 1915)
• 1951 » Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (b. 1886)
• 1954 » Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1960 » Hasan Saka, Turkish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1966 » Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian colonel (b. 1926)
• 1966 » Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian general and politician, 2nd Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)

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. 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.
• January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
• 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.
• August 19 » Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
• November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
• November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• 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 29, 1953 was between 9.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.