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• Maarten Alexander de Bruin, Den Haag († 2011)
• Lubbert Kramer, Urk († 1991)
• Dennis Aaron Solari, Stockton, San Joaquin, California, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Lubbert (Lub) Kramer, Urk († 1991)
• Frank William Webster
• Lubbertje KRAMER, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1991)
• George Martinus Salman, Noordwijk († 2003)
• Guido Julien Arnold Pauwels, Bornem († 2006)
• N.N. Jansen, Breda († 1954)
• Victor Paul Gaspard Spaan, Zeist, Nederland († 2019)

• Aafje Mantel (71), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Jacobus Antonius Vermeeren (37), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Akerboom (47), Haarlem
• aafje mantel (71), alkmaar
• Anna Maria Henckel von Donnersmarck (25), Burg Maubach, Untermaubach, Kreuzau, Allemagne
• Antje Lobert (79), 's Gravenambacht
• Anna Verkoulen (51), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Johanna (Jane) Heijligers (82), Rotterdam
• Antje van Wieringen (82), Haarlem
• Adrianus Matthijssen (0), Roosendaal

• 1949 » Jack Reed, American soldier and politician
• 1949 » Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1992)
• 1950 » Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer-songwriter
• 1953 » Baaba Maal, Senegalese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 » Paul McNamee, Australian tennis player
• 1955 » Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer
• 1957 » Tim Samaras, American engineer, storm chaser († 2013)
• 1958 » Megan Mullally, American actress and singer
• 1958 » Mykola Vynnychenko, Ukrainian race walker
• 1959 » Vincent Irizarry, American actor

• 1946 » Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (b. 1875)
• 1946 » Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
• 1950 » Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (b. 1865)
• 1950 » Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect, designed the Grand Hotel Aranybika (b. 1878)
• 1955 » Sarah Wambaugh, American political scientist, world authority on plebiscites (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1891)
• 1958 » Gustaf Söderström, Swedish shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Roque González Garza, Mexican general and acting president (1915) (b. 1885)

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 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
• 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.
• September 9 » The 6.7 M_w  Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
• 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.

The temperature on November 12, 1954 was between 5.8 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.