About the day » Monday February 8, 1954Calender converter

• Freddy Schacht, Roeselare West-Vlaanderen België († 1977)
• Sheryl Tazelaar, Wichita, KS
• Carl (Carly) Eugene Sinclair, Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1988)
• Ansje Wagenaar, Binnenwijzend, North Holland, Netherlands († 1954)
• Carol Ann Lane, Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1976)
• Jean-Pierre Heymans, Lommel
• Kornelis Melke Sikkema
• Marcel Willems († 2002)
• Maria Magdalena (Marietje) Terwisscha († 2011)
• johannes andreas marie (hans) reinders, sevenum

• Arendina Arbeider (84), Groningen
• Anna Catharina Vosters (88), Bladel en Netersel
• Adriana Maria Meelis (65), Tilburg-Noord-Brabant-NL
• Bakker (72), Bakkum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Brown (75), Holland (Ottawa, Michigan, USA)
• Adolphus Benjamin Parry-Evans
• Aafke Gerbens Wartena (85), Leeuwarden
• Antonie Marius Kuijntjes (55), 's Gravenhage
• Antje Gerks Kooij (79), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina Koolen (66), Bergen op Zoom

• 1949 » Brooke Adams, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 » Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer and coach († 2014)
• 1953 » Mary Steenburgen, American actress
• 1954 » Joe Maddon, American baseball coach and manager
• 1955 » Jim Neidhart, American wrestler († 2018)
• 1955 » John Grisham, American lawyer and author
• 1956 » Marques Johnson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1957 » Karine Chemla, French historian of mathematics and sinologist
• 1958 » Marina Silva, Brazilian environmentalist and politician
• 1958 » Sherri Martel, American wrestler and manager († 2007)

• 1945 » Italo Santelli, Italian fencer and coach (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (b. 1862)
• 1957 » John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1957 » Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1959 » William J. Donovan, American head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
• 1960 » J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911)
• 1963 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (b. 1908)
• 1964 » Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1968 » Maurice Maillot, French actor (b. 1906)

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 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
• May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
• June 14 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.

The temperature on February 8, 1954 was between -3.0 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.