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• Guido Paulus Maria (Guido) Houwaer, Sint-Truiden, België († 2002)
• Kind Noij, Cuijck en Sint Agatha, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1954)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1954)
• Richard Charles Deen, Haarlem († 1991)
• Marie-Claire Hoche, Rukkelingen-Loon, België († 1999)
• Stuart Kevin Slifer, Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa († 1997)
• BOUCKAERT, Ardooie,8850,West-Vlaanderen,Wvl, België († 1954)
• Diane VERFAILLE, Mortsel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 2008)
• Johannes Hermanus Einhaus, Borne († 2015)
• Nicolaas Joseph Marie SPRONCK, stein († 2008)

• Afina Catharina Maria Lubberman (87), Emmercompascuum(Emmen)
• Albert Francis Braun (44), Sacramento, California
• Ava Catharina Maria Lubberman (87), Emmercompascuum(Emmen)
• Anna van Hien (89), Poortugaal
• Angus Lewis Macdonald DNA10 supermatch (WP) (64), Halifax, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia
• Augustinus Desiderius Maes (69), Herentals, België
• Clasina Hendrika Raak (73), Ermelo,Gelderland,Niederlande
• Amaziah Orr Clinkscales (74), Itasca, Hill County, Texas, United States of America
• Anna van Kooperen (68), 's-Gravenhage
• Desiré Augustien Maes (69), Herentals

• 1952 » Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2002)
• 1952 » Gary Gibbs, American football player and coach
• 1953 » Peter Wright, English historian and author
• 1953 » Ron Hilditch, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1953 » Thomas Pogge, German philosopher and academic
• 1953 » Tom Cohen, American philosopher, theorist, and academic
• 1954 » Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player († 2001)
• 1955 » Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese race car driver
• 1955 » Keith Ahlers, English race car driver
• 1955 » Paul Greengrass, English director and screenwriter

• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)
• 1963 » Louis Bastien, French cyclist and fencer (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Hayato Ikeda, Japanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
• 1971 » W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Willy Rey, Dutch-Canadian model (b. 1949)
• 1975 » Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher (b. 1901)

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.
• January 21 » The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USSNautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
• March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
• April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
• May 13 » The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
• June 14 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
• 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.

The temperature on August 13, 1954 was between 12.1 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.