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• Doe Pieter Sonneveld, Delft († 1954)
• Lynnette Kay Polley, Sydney
• Simon Stevens († 2009)
• Jacobje Hakvoort, Urk († 2009)
• Julie Ann Zwart, Hawarden, Sioux County, Iowa († 2021)
• Randy Allen Riherd, Britt, Hancock County, Iowa († 1981)
• Jozef Bogaerts, Brasschaat (B) († 1954)
• Doodgeboren kind van Berkel, Voorburg († 1954)
• N.N. Bloks, Oss († 1954)
• Henk Roest, Langerak († 2016)

• Aaltje Berghuis (78), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alexander Kentie (53), 's-Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Anthonie Diepeveen (63), Almelo
• Adelia Martha Sturgess (89)
• Alexander Kentie (53), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aaltje Berghuis (78), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Hubertus Salimans (63), Vught
• Anthonie Marinus Kuijntjes (55), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Annigje de Groot (73), Genemuiden
• Antonia Francisca Vermeulen (30), Eindhoven

• 1952 » Maurice Lucas, American basketball player and coach († 2010)
• 1952 » Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer
• 1953 » Derek Pellicci, English-Australian drummer
• 1953 » Robbie Bachman, Canadian rock drummer
• 1954 » Charlie Fowler, American mountaineer, author, and photographer († 2006)
• 1954 » John Travolta, American actor and producer
• 1954 » Paul Rendall, English rugby player
• 1955 » Cheetah Chrome, American musician
• 1955 » Lisa See, American writer and novelist
• 1955 » Miles Tredinnick, English singer-songwriter and playwright

• 1942 » Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author (b. 1872)
• 1945 » Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
• 1956 » Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and academic (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Gertrude Vanderbilt, American stage actress (b. c. 1885)
• 1964 » Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1967 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1969 » Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)

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.
• March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
• March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
• April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
• October 10 » The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
• November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
• November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

The temperature on February 18, 1954 was between -0.9 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.