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• Joke van Goch, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jacqueline Heeren, Sint Willebrord († 2008)
• johannes m.a.g. heijnen, meijel
• Bernhard Strack († 2009)
• Harm Keizer († 2005)
• Jan († 2011)
• Peterke Akkermans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Diane Kay Rust, Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota († 2013)
• Loes Eversen († 2000)
• Adje Akkermans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1954)

• Agatha Parcher Smith (94)
• Aalbert van Dongen (68), Barendrecht
• Cornelia van Wijngaarden (59), Harderwijk
• Albertje Struik (49), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• August Michael Ernst (81), Biehle, Perry, Missouri, The United States of America
• Anna Maria van Soest (88), Benschop
• Christiaan Arnout (81), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Antje Koster (62), Venhuizen
• Anna Maria van Soest (88), Benschop, Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anne Elgersma (75), Wonseradeel

• 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)

• 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 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
• August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
• 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 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.

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.