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• Luutze van der Hoff, De Rips, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1958)
• Henk Rieff, Meerssen, Limburg, Netherlands († 1989)
• Rudolf Paul (Ruud) Pauptit, Amstelveen, Nederland († 2009)
• Renato S Watson († 2018)
• Johannes Cornelis Maria Oprins, Gilze en Rijen
• Anne Rutger van der Veen, Enschede († 2020)
• Rudolf Paul Pauptit, Amstelveen, NH, Nederland († 2009)
• Arelis Andries van Egmond, Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Johnny GEERKENS, Opglabbeek (Limburg) (B) († 1982)
• Dirk Plandsoen, Rotterdam († 2004)

• Adrianus van Merrienboer (35), Roosendaal en Nispen
• Anna Cornelia Engelkes (63)
• Hindrik Tooren + (75), Finsterwolde
• Arie BOLLAART (75), Wieldrecht, gemeente Dubbeldam
• Adelheid - sister Maria Amarina Wübben (51), Mühlhausen, Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Antje van der Sleet (84), Arnhem
• Anna Maria Verbruggen (76), Bakel en Milheeze
• Aartje Verschuur (83), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnoldus Teljeur (73), Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adelheid Wübben (51), Mühlhausen

• 1950 » Larry Drake, American actor († 2016)
• 1951 » Vince Welnick, American keyboard player († 2006)
• 1952 » Jean-Jacques Burnel, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1952 » Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat, former Ambassador of Russia to the United Nations († 2017)
• 1953 » Christine Ebersole, American actress and singer
• 1953 » William Petersen, American actor and producer
• 1954 » Christina Rees, British politician
• 1955 » Kelsey Grammer, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1958 » Jake Burns, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1938 » George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1944 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
• 1946 » José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)
• 1958 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)
• 1967 » Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)

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.
• January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
• July 7 » Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
• July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
• August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
• August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
• December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on February 21, 1954 was between -1.7 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.