About the day » Tuesday July 6, 1954Calender converter

• Norris Jay Spencer, Bergen County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Cornelia Kesteloo, Vlissingen († 1999)
• Johanna Margarita Zondervan, Sneek
• Clifford Lee Lustgraaf, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa († 2011)
• Noel Lust, Diksmuide († 1954)
• Bruce Arnold Griebel, Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota († 1954)
• ans stoffelen, arnhem († 2019)
• Robert Deelstra († 2014)
• Johannes Gerardus Maria Broersen, Bovenkarspel, Stede Broec, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Elza Jeanne Gustaaf DUBOIS, Bilzen (Limburg) (B) († 1994)

• Alphonsus Pieter Antoni Schaafsma (53)
• Arie Cornelis Schildt (46), Delft,-
• Aaltje COSTER (95), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Albert Bosman (68), Hoogeveen
• Aaltje Koster (95), Schagen, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Henricus ZON,VAN (87), Rijswijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Wilhelmus Petrus Janssen (80)
• Albert Stegen (54), Emmen Drenthe Nederland
• Aaltje Moesker (78), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham Antonie OVERMARS (65), Edam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1950 » John Byrne, English-American author and illustrator
• 1951 » Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and producer
• 1951 » Lorna Golding, Former First Lady of Jamaica
• 1952 » Hilary Mantel, English author and critic
• 1953 » Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1953 » Nanci Griffith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 » Robert Ménard, French politician and former journalist
• 1954 » Allyce Beasley, American actress
• 1954 » Willie Randolph, American baseball player and manager
• 1958 » Jennifer Saunders, English actress, comedian and screenwriter

• 1946 » Horace Pippin, American painter (b. 1888)
• 1947 » Adolfo Müller-Ury, Swiss-American painter (b. 1862)
• 1952 » Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (b. 1867)
• 1959 » George Grosz, German painter and illustrator (b. 1893)
• 1960 » Aneurin Bevan, Welsh-English politician, Secretary of State for Health (b. 1897)
• 1961 » Scott LaFaro, American bassist (b. 1936)
• 1961 » Woodall Rodgers, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Joseph August, archduke of Austria (b. 1872)
• 1962 » Paul Boffa, Maltese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1890)
• 1962 » William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

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. Helena

• 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 2 » India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
• November 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

The temperature on July 6, 1954 was between 8.0 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.