About the day » Monday February 15, 1954Calender converter

• Curtis Sherman Todd ?****, USA († 2018)
• Mart Boers († 2021)
• Cornelis Dompeling († 2011)
• Francisca Jacoba Opstal, Heemstede († 1954)
• Neeltje Adriana Maria HONCOOP, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• N. van der Rijt, Uden,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1954)
• Terry McIntosh († 1982)
• Gray Hedley Herbert († 1954)
• Johannes Pieter "Hans" Vaders, O.Vossemeer, Zeeland, Nederland († 2004)
• Levenloos Geboren VLASBLOEM, Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1954)

• Adrianus Pols (51), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Bregtje (Bregt) VAN RIJN (69), Leiden
• Berendina Schutte (88), Ommen, Ov, The Netherlands
• Barend Jan AALBERS (75), Bennekom (Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• Antoon Meijnen (81), Lonneker
• * Aartje Tuijtel (86)
• Adriana Kersbergen (84), Lopik
• Adriana Kersbergen (84), Lopik, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Catharina van Zetten (86), Utrecht
• Benedicta von und zu Guttenburg (0)

• 1951 » Markku Alén, Finnish race car driver
• 1952 » Nikolai Sorokin, Russian actor and director († 2013)
• 1952 » Tomislav Nikolić, Serbian politician, 4th President of Serbia
• 1953 » Ernie Howe, English footballer, defender and manager
• 1953 » Tony Adams, Irish-American screenwriter and producer († 2005)
• 1954 » Matt Groening, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 » Christopher McDonald, American actor
• 1955 » Janice Dickinson, American model, agent, and author
• 1956 » Ann Westin, Swedish comedian
• 1956 » Desmond Haynes, Barbadian cricketer and coach

• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)
• 1966 » Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and theologian (b. 1929)
• 1966 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish architect and historian (b. 1909)
• 1967 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish air marshal (b. 1882)

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.
• March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• April 22 » Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
• April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• June 24 » First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M.100 of France in An Khê.
• November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.
• November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

The temperature on February 15, 1954 was between -0.2 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.