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• Bernhard Strack († 2009)
• Jan († 2011)
• Karel Huijgen († 2017)
• Levenloos Draaisma, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1954)
• Catharina Dam, Haarlem († 1954)
• Jacqueline Heeren, Sint Willebrord († 2008)
• Jacobus Johannes Hendrikus Dusschoten van, Zetten
• Adje Akkermans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1954)
• Math Spork († 2012)
• Loes Eversen († 2000)

• Agatha Parcher Smith (94)
• Albertje Struik (49), Sneek
• Adje Akkermans (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnout Christiaan (81), Rotterdam
• Aalbert van Dongen (68), Barendrecht
• Clasina Adriana Prause (64), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Christina van Kernebeek (88), Putten
• Anna Maria van Soest (88), Benschop, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Kop (75), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Koops (81), Sleen,Drenthe,Niederlande

• 1951 » Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1951 » Pat Hill, American football player and coach
• 1951 » Tatyana Kazankina, Russian runner
• 1953 » Bill Pullman, American actor
• 1954 » Sergėjus Jovaiša, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1955 » Brad Davis, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1956 » Dominic Lawson, English journalist and author
• 1956 » Peter Farrelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 » Totka Petrova, Bulgarian runner
• 1957 » Wendy Hoyte, English sprinter

• 1935 » Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895)
• 1947 » Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1957 » Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1962 » Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1964 » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896)

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 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 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
• June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
• July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
• November 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

The temperature on December 17, 1954 was between -1.1 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.