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• Boudewijn Duivenvoorden, Zandvoort († 2006)
• Francina Adriana Maria Rijken († 1955)
• Levenloos geboren Konst, Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• N.N. Scholte, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• N.N. Buteijn, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1953)
• Cornelis Gerardus van der Linden, Wijk bij Duurstede († 1960)
• Boukje Johannesdr. Bangma, Oosterzee, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 2012)
• Mark Steven Ubelhor, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Liliane Van Hout, Balen († 1953)
• Boukje Bangma, Oosterzee (FRL) († 2012)

• Anna Otter (46), Oosterwolde, Ooststellingwerf
• Aagje Van Vliet (68), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloysius Petrus Degraeve (89), Oostende (B)
• Antonius Notenboom (88), Roosendaal en Nispen
• Aaffien Bolhuis (67), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Aloysius Peter Degraeve (89), Oostende
• Bohumila Trávníčková N.N. Travinek
• Antje Turkstra (77), Bloemfontein, Zuid Afrika
• Aaltjen Janna Schuiterd (59), Rijssen
• Aaldert Peeters (67), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1951 » Grant Batty, New Zealand rugby player
• 1951 » Sirje Tamul, Estonian historian, author, and academic
• 1952 » Herbert Reul, German politician
• 1952 » Kim Kashkashian, American viola player and educator
• 1953 » György Károly, Hungarian poet and author
• 1953 » Miguel Ángel Guerra, Argentinian race car driver
• 1953 » Pavel Vinogradov, Russian astronaut and engineer
• 1954 » Julie Brown, American actress and screenwriter
• 1955 » Aleksander Krupa, Polish-American actor
• 1955 » Julie Maxton, Scottish lawyer and academic

• 1940 » Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (b. 1871)
• 1941 » Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author (b. 1892)
• 1941 » Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1874)
• 1948 » Andrei Zhdanov, Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1896)
• 1951 » Paul Demel, Czech actor (b. 1903)
• 1952 » Henri Bourassa, Canadian publisher and politician (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Elsa Barker, American author and poet (b. 1869)
• 1963 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1965 » E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author (b. 1891)

• 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.
• April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
• June 8 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
• June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
• December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.

The temperature on August 31, 1953 was between 12.9 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.