About the day » Thursday July 29, 1954Calender converter

• Jean-Pierre ORLANS, Mechelen,2800,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2000)
• Hinderk WOLDENDORP, Beerta, Oldambt, Groningen, Nederland († 1957)
• NN Steenbergen († 1954)
• Anna Maria van der Werf, Deurne († 1968)
• Nicolaas Fernandez Maria Stokman, Vijfhuizen († 2020)
• George Alfred Sickler Jr († 2012)
• Nico Zonneveld, Heemskerk († 2012)
• Yvonne Monica Knoeff, Leeuwarden († 2006)
• Pieter Koedijk, Broek op langedijk († 1984)
• Henk van Schijndel, Sint-Michielsgestel († 1999)

• Aaltje van Ooij (72), Barneveld
• Annie Myers (71), Louth, Ireland
• Aaltje Klumpenaar (69), Velsen Noord, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• - Grooten (0), Bocholtz
• Benvinda Dalva Pierotti (35)
• Anna Maria Zoontjens (63), Tilburg, Netherlands
• Christina van der Linden (63), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Berend Jan Rutger Oosterlaar (67), Apeldoorn
• Antonia Ferraz de Campos (85), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Amalia Stiebel (94)

• 1952 » Joe Johnson, English snooker player and sportscaster
• 1952 » Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, English businessman and politician
• 1953 » Frank McGuinness, Irish poet and playwright
• 1953 » Geddy Lee, Canadian musician
• 1953 » Ken Burns, American director and producer
• 1953 » Tim Gunn, American television host and actor
• 1954 » Patti Scialfa, American musician
• 1955 » Dave Stevens, American illustrator († 2008)
• 1955 » Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1955 » Stephen Timms, English politician, Minister of State for Competitiveness

• 1938 » Nikolai Krylenko, Russian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (b. 1885)
• 1950 » Joe Fry, English race car driver (b. 1915)
• 1951 » Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded Galatasaray S.K. (b. 1886)
• 1954 » Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
• 1960 » Hasan Saka, Turkish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1966 » Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian colonel (b. 1926)
• 1966 » Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian general and politician, 2nd Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)

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.
• February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
• 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 24 » First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M.100 of France in An Khê.
• November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
• November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
• December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.

The temperature on July 29, 1954 was between 12.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.