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• Doodgeboren kind van Ruijven, Delft († 1954)
• Willy Jozef Peeters, Geel, België († 1954)
• Archduchess Catharina Maria Johanna Zita Sophie Caspara of austria, Brussels,Brabant,Belgium († 2022)
• Danielle Ilmer († 2000)
• Hans Bloedjes, Limmen († 1955)
• Lucia Benjamins, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Quirinus Joseph van den Berg, Hillegom († 1959)
• Cynthia Marie de Blauw, Redlands, San Bernardino, California, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Guido Leemans, Sint-Truiden, België († 2020)

• Christiaan Bijleveld (73), Stroobos (gem. Grootegast)
• Albert Grootendorst (64), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Geertruida Wilhelmina van der Heijden (64), Leiden
• Aldegondis Bogaerts (85), Hasselt, België
• Barteld Alberts OOSTERHUIS (83), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Carolina ten Dam (82), Hengelo
• Benjamin Blazer (65), Amersfoort
• Aafke van Polen (47), Groningen
• Anna Konings (57), Rucphen, Gemeente Rucphen, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Koster (49), Terneuzen (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland

• 1952 » Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 1952 » Charlie Spedding, English runner
• 1953 » Florin Marin, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge, Scottish lawyer and judge
• 1953 » Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
• 1953 » Victoria Wood, English actress, singer, director, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1954 » Hōchū Ōtsuka, Japanese voice actor
• 1954 » Phil Rudd, Australian-New Zealand drummer
• 1954 » Rick Cerone, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1955 » James Gosling, Canadian-American computer scientist, created Java

• 1939 » Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Philipp Bouhler, German soldier and politician (b. 1889)
• 1946 » Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (b. 1869)
• 1950 » Daniel Ciugureanu, Romanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1884)
• 1954 » Charles Ives, American composer and educator (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870)
• 1958 » Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (b. 1871)

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.
• June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
• September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
• December 4 » The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.

The temperature on May 19, 1954 was between 7.1 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.