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• Eveline Janette van Drie, Putten († 1955)
• Farney Brandão Magalhães, Campanha, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 2012)
• Venetia Jane CHAWORTH-MUSTERS († 1993)
• Gerardus Johannes Maria Groote Wolthaar, Utrecht († 1971)
• Helly Groet, Barsingerhorn, Nederland
• Eveline Janette van Drie, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1955)
• N.N. Aerts, Alphen en Riel († 1954)
• Adrianus Joannes Franciscus Marie Kriellaars, Nieuw Ginneken († 1972)
• Charles Eugene Tutt, Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, Verenigde Staten († 1995)
• Rinske Loonstra, St. Annaparochie († 1974)

• Anton Peter Amundson (80), Black River Falls, Jackson, Wisconsin
• Adriana Warmoeskerken (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Angeline Nardozzi (56), Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Bastiaan Bogers (58), Werkendam
• Antonia Theodora van den Born (68), Hoensbroek
• Benjamin Oet (77), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Jenkins (63)
• Berendina Maria ten Broek (83), Warnsveld
• Aaltje Scholten (81), Meppel
• Alje Kroon (86), Meeden, Groningen, The Netherlands

• 1946 » Tony Levin, American bass player and songwriter.
• 1947 » Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of three Olympic medals including gold in 1968.
• 1947 » David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004.
• 1947 » Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street.
• 1948 » Arlene Harris, American entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate.
• 1949 » Holly Near, American folk singer and songwriter.
• 1954 » Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright; twice a winner at the Tony Awards.
• 1954 » Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
• 1955 » Sam Simon, American director, producer and screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons († 2015).
• 1956 » Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player; winner of eleven Grand Slam singles titles including five consecutive Wimbledons.

• 1946 » Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 » James Agate, English author and critic (b. 1877)
• 1948 » Louis Lumière, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1954 » Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer and author (b. 1910)
• 1955 » Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and educator (b. 1875)
• 1961 » Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Tom Phillis, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1934)
• 1962 » Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928)
• 1963 » William Baziotes, American painter and academic (b. 1912)

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. Margaretha
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.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• 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.
• September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
• 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 22 » The Humane Society of the United States is founded.

The temperature on June 6, 1954 was between 9.7 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.