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• Johannes Martinus Maria Goeijenbier († 2018)
• Myron Mulder, Hawarden, Sioux County, Iowa († 2014)
• Jeanette van de Burgt, Empel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1990)
• Leo Maria Claassen, Nijmegen,Gemeente Nijmegen,Gelderland,Nederland († 1954)
• Greetje Dros, Eierland (Texel, NH) († 1955)
• Francis Allen Honrath, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota († 2013)
• Greetje Dros, Polder Eierland († 1955)
• Andrea Alida Siepel, Bovensmilde, Smilde († 2009)
• Johannes Cornelis Martinus van Drunen, Vught
• josephus franciscus maria (jos) peeters, helden-beringe († 1998)

• Catharina Bossinade (80), Appingedam
• Antonia Johanna Maria van Loon (6), Tilburg, Elisabeth Ziekenhuis
• Dimphna de Crom (84), Woensdrecht, N-Br, NL
• Cornelia Schoups (73), Hasselt
• Bertus (Albertus) Fleuren (81), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Bernardus Adam Kokshoorn (3), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Daniel Hugo (70)
• Anna Catharina van Hest (68), Tilburg
• Cornelia Hubertina Vos (89), Echt, Netherlands
• Aldert Helder (75), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1951 » John Alexander, Australian tennis player and politician
• 1951 » Ralph Johnson, American R&B drummer and percussionist
• 1952 » Álvaro Uribe, Colombian lawyer and politician, 39th President of Colombia
• 1952 » Carol MacReady, English actress
• 1952 » John Waite, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Paul Rogat Loeb, American author and activist
• 1953 » Francis Maude, English lawyer and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
• 1954 » Devendra Kumar Joshi, 21st Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy
• 1954 » Jim Beattie, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1954 » Morganna, American model, actress, and dancer

• 1938 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (b. 1881)
• 1946 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (b. 1882)
• 1949 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and engineer (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, New Zealand general and politician, 7th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Clyde Kennard, American activist and martyr (b. 1927)
• 1963 » Pingali Venkayya, Indian activist, designed the Flag of India (b. 1876)
• 1964 » Gaby Morlay, French actress and singer (b. 1893)

• 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.
• March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
• August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
• August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
• October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on July 4, 1953 was between 12.0 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.