About the day » Thursday January 7, 1954Calender converter

• Broer BRANCKAERT, Weert,2880,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1994)
• Eduard Zonneveld, Purmerend († 2018)
• Richard Bruce De Loof, Hyde Park, NY († 2010)
• Ilana SCHIDLOW, Tel Aviv, Israel († 2000)
• Cynthia Van Norden, Georgia
• Marie-Claire Stassens, Schalkhoven, België († 2011)
• Catharina Maria Jong, Zwaagdijk-West († 2010)
• Renie Lichtendonk, Hoogeveen, Nederland († 2021)
• Hillegonda Barijntje van Beckhoven
• Gesina Maria Oude Avenhuis, Geesteren († 1954)

• Adelheida Hermina Steijnis (60), Almelo
• CAROLUS LUDOVICUS NOENS (77), SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Albertha Catharina van der Molen (3), Slagharen, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adelheida Hermine Steijnis (60), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adelia Hall (86), Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States
• Albelius (Bart) Koning (56), Volendam, Nederland
• Albertine Tonckens (90), 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltien Bergman (87), Raalte
• Aarnout Maas (68), Koudekerke
• Aaltien (2) Bergman (87), Raalte

• 1948 » Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter
• 1950 » Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1952 » Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
• 1953 » Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
• 1954 » Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach
• 1955 » Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress
• 1956 » David Caruso, American actor
• 1957 » Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author
• 1959 » Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician
• 1959 » Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter

• 1936 » Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
• 1941 » Charles Finger, English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1951 » René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (b. 1886)
• 1960 » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1964 » Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1968 » J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (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. 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 14 » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
• March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
• October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.

The temperature on January 7, 1954 was between -5.8 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.