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• Marie Claudine Jos‚ Vanheertum, Matadi († 1955)
• Gerarda Johanna Maria Jacobs, Gilze (Gilze en Rijen) (Noord-Brabant) († 2001)
• Maria Elisabeth Venantius (Lous) Wilken, Barger Oosterveld († 2005)
• N.N. Romeling, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands († 1954)
• Doodgeboren kind van Dommelen, Eindhoven († 1954)
• Alexander Jacobus Leonardus Maria Duijndam, Leiden († 1995)
• Micheline Coolen, Wetteren († 2023)
• Ton de Leuw († 1988)
• José Oldenhof († 2018)
• Maria Margaretha Petronella Duivenvoorden, Noordwijkerhout († 2016)

• Adriana (Zus) Kwakernaak (60), Dordrecht
• Adrianus Gerrit Wigant (58), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Incze (18), Breda
• Albert Veneman (51), Nieuwe Krim
• Apolonia van den Bos (74), Dordrecht
• Alice Marlin (82), Pittsburg, KS
• Berend van Zweden (88), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltien Wolting (78), Zwinderen, Oosterhesselen
• Bertha Viola Yost (61), Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Anna Maria Stephania (Stephanie) BEX (49), Leuven (B)

• 1952 » David Leakey, English general and politician
• 1952 » Diane Duane, American author and screenwriter
• 1952 » George Strait, American singer, guitarist and producer
• 1952 » Jeana Yeager, American pilot
• 1953 » Alan Kupperberg, American author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1954 » Eric Gerets, Belgian footballer and manager
• 1954 » Wreckless Eric, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 » Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor and screenwriter
• 1956 » Catherine Corsini, French director and screenwriter
• 1956 » John Godber, English playwright and screenwriter

• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
• 1947 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1958 » Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)
• 1968 » Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)

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 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
• 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.
• July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
• October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

The temperature on May 18, 1954 was between 6.7 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.