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• Gary Rosa Karel De Moor, Aalst († 1988)
• Gerardus Theodorus Maria Koopmanschap, Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Kivits, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)
• Gerard Koopmanschap († 2017)
• Wilhelmus Casper Anna Gerardus Schumans, Heerlen (NL) († 1954)
• Pedro Schonewille, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands († 1972)
• Leendert Adriaan Wouterszn van Groningen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Beth Anne Koster, Seattle (WA) († 2004)
• Donald Paul van der Lugt, Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo), Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1954)
• Robbert van der Greft, Hilversum, Gemeente Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2005)

• Clemens Graaf van Brandis (70), Brandis, Tirol
• Cornelis Johannes Schijvenaars (37), Rotterdam (NL)
• Clyde Lane Mays (65), USA
• Antoon Roze (64), Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelius Ludovicus Smits (68), Tilburg
• Andreas Cornelis Johannes Westhuis (71), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Verhoeven (78), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bertus Cornelis Ruijsbroek (82), Schipluiden, 2636, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes van Poeteren (73), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Maria Otsen (65), Den Haag

• 1952 » Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
• 1952 » Cordell Mosson, American bass player († 2013)
• 1952 » Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright († 2019)
• 1953 » Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1954 » Corinna Harfouch, German actress
• 1954 » Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger
• 1954 » Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1954 » Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player
• 1955 » Ellen Dolan, American actress

• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
• 1962 » Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)

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.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
• August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.

The temperature on October 16, 1954 was between 10.4 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.