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• Katie H Evans († 1995)
• Maria Johanna Theodora Manders, Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1991)
• Lodewijk Willekens, Paal († 1954)
• Margareta Catharina Geurtz († 1962)
• Arie Geurt Damsteegt († 1991)
• Jacques Antonius Marie Chrysanthus Houdé, Alblasserdam († 2013)
• Robert (Rob) Bernardus Maria Verhoof, Tilburg († 1996)
• van Duijvenbode, Valkenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Margaretha Hendrika Maria van den Beucken, Hunsel († 1994)
• Kind van Ginkel, Leusden († 1954)

• Antonia Cornelia Jacoba Maria van Loon (1), Kruisland
• Arendje Meijlink (78), Kampen
• Arie Potharst (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Haeck (74), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Gerrit Radijs (68), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Alida Roelofsen (79), Ede, Nederland
• Agnes Robina Harrison (74), 25 Burgh Road, Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland
• Aagje Ursem (87), Wormer, Wormerland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Kooij (63), Noordoostelijke Polder (Flevoland)
• Adrianus Hubertus Henricus van Dorenmalen (77), Eindhoven

• 1951 » Carl A. Anderson, 13th Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
• 1951 » Lee Atwater, American journalist, activist and political strategist († 1991)
• 1951 » Steve Harley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 » Walter de Silva, Italian car designer
• 1953 » Gavin Esler, Scottish journalist and author
• 1953 » Ian Khama, English-Botswanan lieutenant and politician, 4th President of Botswana
• 1953 » Stelios Kouloglou, Greek journalist, author, director and politician
• 1954 » Neal Schon, American rock guitarist and singer-songwriter
• 1956 » Belus Prajoux, Chilean tennis player
• 1957 » Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator, producer, and screenwriter

• 1936 » Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Joshua W. Alexander, American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
• 1937 » Emily Malbone Morgan, American saint, foundress of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross (b. 1862)
• 1937 » Hosteen Klah, Navajo artist, medicine man, and weaver (b. 1867)
• 1943 » Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1956 » Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Orry-Kelly, Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1969 » Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)

• 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 20 » In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
• March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
• 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.
• September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
• September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
• 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 27, 1954 was between -0.2 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.