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• N.n. van der Lee, Doorn († 1953)
• Andre BERGMANS, Heerlen (NL/LI) († 1981)
• Johannes Adrianus Maria Kapitein, Zevenbergen († 2012)
• Margaretha Maria Theresia Kaptein, Alkmaar († 2007)
• Lynda Kemp, Hamilton, Ontario, Kanada († 2016)
• Cornelia Goverdina Verhoef († 2018)
• Cornelis van der Bent, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Trijntje Steffens, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1953)
• NN van der Lee, Doorn
• Jan Jozef Maria van de Lisdonk, Merksplas, België († 1979)

• Christiaan Cornelis Stutterheim (53)
• Cornelia Adriana VOS (52), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Abraham Johannis Bierens (85), Kloetinge
• Adriana BLINK, van den (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Blink (76), Rotterdam
• Albertus Henricus Dresen (66), Heerlen
• Adriana Kulk (82), Leiden
• Aaltje Sikkes van der Mei (72), Drachten (gem. Smallingerland)
• Catharina Jacoba Cornelia Hagedoorn (65), Den Haag
• Anna Maria Meijer (79), Groenlo

• 1950 » Tom Kelly, American baseball player
• 1950 » Tommy Aldridge, American drummer
• 1951 » Ann Biderman, American screenwriter and producer
• 1951 » Bobby Caldwell, American singer-songwriter
• 1951 » John Childs, English cricketer
• 1952 » Chuck Burgi, American drummer
• 1953 » Carol Thatcher, English journalist and author
• 1953 » Mark Thatcher, English businessman
• 1953 » Wolfgang Hohlbein, German author
• 1954 » Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author († 2004)

• 1935 » Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
• 1935 » Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1936 » Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Fred Hockley, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of the Army (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
• 1967 » René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)

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. Yvonne
11. Margaretha
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.
• March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
• July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
• 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 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
• 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 15, 1953 was between 14.9 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 26.7 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.