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• Annelene MEINERS († 2010)
• Estelle Lorraine Webber, Los Angeles, CA († 1995)
• Gerrit koorneef, den haag († 2009)
• Otto Francis van Ort, Albany, New York († 1998)
• Patricia Ann Smith, Toronto, Ontario, Canada († 2006)
• Derk Jan Heijstek, Genderen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Nicolaas Thomas van der Marel, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Marion Windhouwer († 2006)
• Greet van der Mierden, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2010)
• Ronald Merilyn Best, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2021)

• Anna Catharina van Schaijk (80), Bladel en Netersel
• Ammo van delden (81)
• Alida Emerentiana Rooijakkers (64), 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Catharina de Groot (26), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Michiel Pheninckx (71), Eindhoven
• * Maria Sophia Kuijkens (80), Amsterdam
• Alida Rosina Maira Willeman Willeman (89), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberdina Smit (68), Zuidbroek, Nederland
• Anthonia Dirkje Lens (57), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Dirkje Lens (57), Leiden

• 1951 » Debbie Friedman, American singer-songwriter of Jewish melodies († 2011)
• 1951 » Eddie Dibbs, American tennis player
• 1952 » Brad Whitford, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1953 » Kenny Bee, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1953 » Satoru Nakajima, Japanese race car driver
• 1954 » Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic († 1989)
• 1954 » Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian captain and politician, 3rd President of Ukraine
• 1955 » Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach († 2015)
• 1955 » Howard Jones, English singer-songwriter
• 1956 » Sandra Osborne, Scottish politician

• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)

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 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 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
• May 13 » The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
• July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
• September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.

The temperature on February 23, 1954 was between 2.4 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.