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• Elianne Wilanka van Straaten, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 2012)
• Tosca Schop, Rotterdam
• William Lee Boeh, St. Joseph Hospital, St. Joseph, Missouri († 1993)
• Jeannette Worp, Wognum († 1953)
• Cornelis Begthel, Noord Oost polder († 2005)
• Joseph F. Schroyen, Rukkelingen-Loon, België († 2007)
• Gerda Joosten, Liessel († 2015)
• Theodore Stewart Cherry, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Catharina Anna Theodora Maria Ligthart, Beesel († 2003)
• Marcel Johannes Petrus Weijkamp, Hengelo

• Adriaan As, van (69), Gouda Zhl. NL
• Clazina Wilhelmina van Zandwijk (67)
• Akke Visser (81), Warga
• Akke Theunis Visser (81), Warga
• Anna Theresia Prins (83), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Catharina Vrouwe, Assendelft
• Bastiaan Rombout (76), Geertruidenberg
• Anthonius Hendrikus Maria Hoos (0), Nijmegen
• Anna Theresia PRINS (83), Maasdijk, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Amelia Emily Kate Marsden (73)

• 1950 » Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 » Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1951 » Tim Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 » Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1976)
• 1952 » Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia († 2003)
• 1953 » Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author
• 1953 » Robert Cray, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 » Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
• 1954 » James Gleick, American journalist and author
• 1954 » Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer († 2006)

• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)

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 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
• March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
• April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
• June 8 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
• July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
• December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.

The temperature on August 1, 1953 was between 9.3 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.