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• NN Buitenhuis, Groningen {GR} († 1954)
• Hendrika Wilhelmina Gerarda "Maria" Koenen, Well, Li.NL († 1954)
• Jacob van den Hoonaard, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Hendrik Luitjes, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 2000)
• Berdina Wilhelmina Adriana van den Heuvel, Deest († 1992)
• Peter Willem Emiel Haeck, Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Nederland († 2014)
• Leo Manders, Deurne,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Bareld Lammerd Gerardus van Rooij, Zwolle, Gelderland, Nederland
• NN de Graaff, Enschede
• Trijntje Titia Reijntjes, Groningen († 2010)

• Anna Kuijs (73), Alkmaar, Nederland
• Aafje Jacobs Neuvel (78), Wervershoof
• Antonius Melis (77), Mierlo
• Alvin Ernest Knutson (64), Dodgeville, Iowa County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan van Kalkeren (54), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Johannes Raaijmakers (62), Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Sophia ter Kuile (83), Velp,Gemeente Rheden,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Adriana Maria (Mieke) van Poppel (74), Etten-Leur
• Anna Maria Sophia Kuile, ter (83), Rheden
• Agnes May INSKIP (WOOD) (77), Blythe Bridge

• 1952 » Ben Crenshaw, American golfer and architect
• 1952 » Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright († 2013)
• 1952 » Diana Gabaldon, American author
• 1952 » Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer, and producer
• 1952 » Michael Forshaw, Australian lawyer and politician
• 1953 » Graham Allen, English politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
• 1953 » Kostas Skandalidis, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Agricultural Development and Food
• 1954 » Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian physicist and politician, 26th Estonian Minister of Defence
• 1954 » Kailash Satyarthi, Indian engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 » Big Bank Hank, American rapper († 2014)

• 1947 » Eva Tanguay, Canadian singer (b. 1879)
• 1952 » Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator (b. 1885)
• 1952 » Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (b. 1889)
• 1953 » Noe Zhordania, Georgian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1868)
• 1953 » Roberta Fulbright, American businesswoman (b.1874)
• 1954 » Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1957 » Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and politician, Solicitor-General of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1958 » Alec Rowley, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Elena Gerhardt, German soprano and actress (b. 1883)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Jacobus
13. Gerardus
14. Adrianus
15. Jacob
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Marianne
12. Yvonne
13. Marie
14. Linda
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• 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 10.6 million citizens.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
• June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
• July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
• August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
• September 3 » The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.

The temperature on January 11, 1954 was between 5.9 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.