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• Maria Johanna Domenie, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Jozef Lambertus Geurts, Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland († 1997)
• John Vaandrager († 2021)
• Frans Hoek, Oude-Wetering (Alkemade), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Jacobus Arie Griffioen, Leiden († 1999)
• Maaike Bezemer, Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Luc Jules Vanstraelen, Hasselt, België († 1972)
• Jacobus Arie (Coenraad) Griffioen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• "Ann" Rosemarie Stroink, Seattle, Washinton, Verenigde Staten
• Jacobus Arie Christiaan Griffioen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)

• Carl (Charles) E. Moe (77), Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Berend Swiersema (54), Groningen
• Aart Jan Van Tuijl (76), Dodewaard
• Aartje Brinkman (79), Kockengen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnoldus Hendrikus van den Heuvel (63), Nijmegen
• Catharina Bontes Yntema (63), Heeg
• Annie Vellekoop (22), Ermelo
• Adriana Maria van der Arend (64), Wassenaar
• Anthony Henry HUKENBECK (77), Louisville,Kentucky,America
• Alida van Donselaar (76), Amsterdam

• 1951 » Karen Tei Yamashita, American author and academic
• 1951 » Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
• 1952 » Peter McCullagh, Irish mathematician and academic
• 1952 » Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator
• 1953 » Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
• 1954 » Konstantinos Kypriotis, Greek martial artist († 1995)
• 1955 » Mike Reno, Canadian singer and drummer
• 1955 » Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer and coach
• 1957 » Nacho Duato, Spanish dancer and choreographer
• 1958 » Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education

• 1945 » Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (b. 1900)
• 1948 » Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (b. 1887)
• 1950 » Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (b. 1883)
• 1952 » Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866)
• 1953 » Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
• 1954 » Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1956 » Jim Elliot, American missionary and martyr (b. 1928)
• 1958 » Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869)
• 1961 » Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1910)
• 1963 » Kay Sage, American painter (b. 1898)

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 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• 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 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• July 7 » Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
• September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
• November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.

The temperature on January 8, 1954 was between -5.3 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.