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• Johan P Groeneveld, Renkum (Gelderland) († 2006)
• Peter Vermeer († 1979)
• Simona Franke, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Roelf Rudolf van der Laan, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 2009)
• Jan Wagensveld, Zwollerkerspel († 2004)
• Roelf Rudolf van der Laan, Veendam († 2009)
• Johannes Gerardus Van Surksum, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland († 1993)
• Jannetje Westplate, Rotterdam († 2000)
• Hendrika Grada Bennink († 1996)
• Boudewijn van Dijck, Loenhout (B) († 1997)

• Antje Folkerts Poelstra (92), Roden
• Aaltje de Vries (88), Enkhuizen
• Adriana Johanna Sigon (80), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Frederick Bunn (63), Edmonton, London, England
• Anna Maria Magdalena Oostenbrink (94), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Gerardus van Roosmalen (33), Vught
• Andries de Bruin (50), Rotterdam
• Anna Marie Elisabeth Schrader (86), Groningen
• Antje Poelstra (92), Roden
• Andries Dirks (86), Den Haag

• 1952 » Jenny Agutter, English actress
• 1954 » Michael Badalucco, American actor
• 1954 » Sandra Cisneros, American author and poet
• 1955 » Binali Yıldırım, Turkish lawyer and politician, Turkish Minister of Transport
• 1955 » David Breashears, American mountaineer, director, and producer
• 1955 » Martin Schulz, German politician
• 1956 » Blanche Baker, American actress and screenwriter
• 1956 » Guy Babylon, American keyboard player and songwriter († 2009)
• 1956 » Junji Hirata, Japanese wrestler
• 1956 » Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritanian general and politician, President of Mauritania

• 1938 » Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Hans Langsdorff, German captain (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Igor Severyanin, Russian-Estonian poet and author (b. 1887)
• 1950 » Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
• 1954 » James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1956 » Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906)
• 1959 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885)
• 1961 » Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1968 » John Steinbeck, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

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.
• January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
• September 3 » The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
• September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
• September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

The temperature on December 20, 1954 was between 4.9 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.