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• Wanda Bianca Torn, Soestdijk, Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2014)
• Nicole Huyghe, Ieper († 2021)
• Josephus Albertus Maria van Unen, Bergen op Zoom († 2012)
• Wilhelmina Johanna Maria Lammers, Haaksbergen († 1954)
• Henk Gerrits, Holthone († 2019)
• Johannes Smeins, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Mia Bormans, Genk, Limburg, 3600, België († 1975)
• N.N. Gillis, Breda († 1954)
• Peter Bego, Amsterdam († 1955)
• N N Posthuma, Steenwijk († 1954)

• Andreas Selders (75), Musselkanaal, Groningen, Netherlands
• Aagje van Duijn (83), Noordwijk (Zuid-Holland NL)
• Anna Sandrina Marcusse (79), Wissenkerke gem. Nrd. Beveland Zld. NL
• * Jan Willem van Berk (76), Asperen
• Anna KUIPERS (66), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Andries Wattel (93), Kapelle, Zeeland, NL
• Anna Nauta (74), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Hilkos Selders (75), Musselkanaal, Gemeente Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Andreas Selders (75), Musselkanaal, Onstwedde
• Adriana Eijkemans (76), 's-Hertogenbosch, NL

• 1952 » Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1952 » Rudi Protrudi, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1953 » J. M. DeMatteis, American author
• 1953 » John R. Allen, American general and diplomat
• 1953 » Robert Charles Wilson, American-Canadian author
• 1954 » Alex Cox, English film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author, broadcaster and sometime actor
• 1954 » Mark Warner, American businessman and politician, 69th Governor of Virginia
• 1954 » Oliver Heald, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
• 1955 » Hector Sants, English banker
• 1955 » Paul Simonon, English singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1965 » M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)

• 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 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
• 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.
• August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
• 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 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• November 22 » The Humane Society of the United States is founded.

The average temperature on December 15, 1954 was 7.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.