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• Catharina Maria van den Berg, Voorhout († 2011)
• Jan Kuper, Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2021)
• Jos Jordens, Genk, België († 2014)
• Atalanta Mary Margaret Naylor-Leyland († 1972)
• Jos JORDENS, Genk (Limburg) (B) († 2014)
• Peter Looijesteijn, Breezand († 2012)
• Anne Marie Josée Wastiels, Ninove († 1976)
• Dale John Jorgenson, Blue Earth, Faribault Co., MN († 2019)
• Angela Maria van Aerde, 's-Gravenhage († 1967)
• Frits HOLDERT, 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1967)

• Berendje van Unen (81), IJsselmuiden
• Berendje van Unen (81), IJsselmuiden, Nederland
• Alexander Theodorus Kniest (74), Cleve, Duitsland
• Age Ages Cnossen (82), Wijckel
• Bernardus Willink (74)
• Anna Maria van Ooijen (74), Bergen op Zoom
• Anna Maria Cornelia van Gorp (85), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adolphus Medardus Bode (59), Klemskerke (De Haan), West-Vlaanderen, België
• Bastiaan BOENDER (84), Dordrecht
• Alexandra Valentine Alice (55), Rio de Janeiro, Brazilië

• 1949 » Brian Hanrahan, English journalist († 2010)
• 1949 » Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 » Des Browne, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1953 » Kenneth Rogoff, American economist and chess grandmaster
• 1955 » Lena Olin, Swedish actress
• 1955 » Pete Sessions, American politician
• 1955 » Valdis Zatlers, Latvian physician and politician, 7th President of Latvia
• 1956 » Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born María Teresa Mestre y Batista)
• 1957 » Jürgen Bucher, German footballer
• 1957 » Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer

• 1942 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 » William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1945 » John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)
• 1952 » D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 » José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
• 1966 » John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (b. 1935)
• 1971 » Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886)

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. Mary

• 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.
• May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• September 3 » The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
• September 11 » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
• September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
• 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 March 22, 1954 was between 6.6 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.