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• Pieter Frans Gerritsz Biersteker, Krabbendam († 1977)
• gertruda johanna petronella (truus) minten, helden-beringe
• Leo Duifhuizen
• Cornelis Petrus Johannes de Graaf, Prinsenbeek († 1993)
• Nelly Vogelzangs, Oirlo, Li.NL († 2016)
• Harmiena Jantje Harmien Keep, Oosterhesselen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Gees († 2010)
• NN Kuik, Assen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1954)
• Alex Jongsma, Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Henriette Johanna Altena
• Gonny Caré, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1999)

• Anton Engels (75), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Clarence Randolph Staggers (61), Franklin, Pendleton, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Andrew Mitchell Canter (81), Prince Georges Hospitla Cheverly Prince Georges Co Md
• Catharina Maria van den Heuvel (71), 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltje Havinga (54), Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Camiel Geldhof (69), La Courneuve (F)
• Adriana van Rooden (84), Haarlem
• Abraham Koorenhof (91), Haarlem
• Catharina Goedraad (88), Leiden
• Berend Jan Mekenkamp (75), Hengelo

• 1952 » Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1953 » David Threlfall, English actor and director
• 1953 » Les Dennis, English comedian and actor
• 1954 » Linval Thompson, Jamaican singer and producer
• 1954 » Massimo Ghini, Italian actor
• 1954 » Michael Roe, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 1955 » Ante Gotovina, Croatian general
• 1955 » Einar Jan Aas, Norwegian footballer
• 1955 » Jane Siberry, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1955 » Pat DiNizio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2017)

• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
• 1954 » George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
• 1958 » Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
• 1964 » John Watkins, Canadian diplomat (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1967 » Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)

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.
• February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
• April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
• October 10 » The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
• November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.

The temperature on October 12, 1954 was between 5.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.