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• Hubertus Johannes Catharinus Doezé, Heeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2016)
• Geertruida Maria Gerarda (Trudie) Berkelmans, Zeist († 2001)
• Robert Paiement, Ste-Marthe, Vaudreuil, QC († 1972)
• Etienne Ruyssinck, Hamme (Oost-Vlaanderen) België-Belgium († 2018)
• Sjoerd Bakker († 2018)
• Nn Hermsen, Nijmegen
• Paul Meekers, Brussel, België († 2015)
• Gerard Joseph Hubertus Claessen, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 2015)
• Kathryn A. Foard Ward "Kathy", Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina ql († 2001)
• Sjoerd Bakker († 2018)

• Anna Henrietta Lofgren (69), Saint Louis, Minnesota
• Cornelia Maria Calkhoven (55), Hellendoorn
• Anna Meijvogel (76), Katwijk
• Anna Meijvogel (76), Katwijk
• Ebbel Wijkstra (75), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aalbert van Beek (79), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Berend Jan Heuver (29), almelo
• August De Stoop (89), Welden
• Adolf Hulzebos (93), Oude-Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Catrinus Dijkstra (91), Piaam, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1952 » Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2010)
• 1952 » John Emburey, English cricketer and coach
• 1952 » John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Ric Menello, American director and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1953 » Gerry Bertier, American football player († 1981)
• 1953 » Jim Trenton, American radio host and actor
• 1953 » Leroy Burgess, American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer
• 1953 » Mike Jackson, American politician
• 1953 » Peter Horton, American actor and director
• 1954 » Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach

• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)

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.
• January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
• February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
• 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.
• 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.
• June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
• October 1 » A Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea is concluded in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on August 20, 1953 was between 13.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.