About the day » Saturday March 13, 1954Calender converter

• Birgit GEERTS, Leuven (BE) († 1993)
• Russell John CORNWALL, Burnie, Tasmania, Australia († 2015)
• Susan N. Lensink, Oostburg, Wisconsin († 2002)
• Anna A.M. Pijpers, Gilze en Rijen († 1996)
• Isabelle de la Rochefoucauld, Paris, 75056, France († 1954)
• Ria Doodewaard, Rotterdam († 1994)
• Wilhelmus Antonius Egbertus Josephus Schoorlemmer, Zwollerkerspel († 1972)
• Pieter Jacob van der Es, Odoornerveen († 1999)
• Josef Landen, Gustorf-Grevenbroich (D), Duitsland († 1990)
• Guy Corneel Verheyen, Lier, België († 2013)

• Agatha Servaas (86), Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Nederland
• Amos Hamilton Harbison (57)
• Abraham Hoogland (89), Alkmaar
• Westerbeek (78)
• Abraham Willem Mol (74), rockanje
• Anna Oosterhof (0), Meppel
• Albert Post (91), Urk, Nederland
• Atze Veltman (77), Leeuwarden
• Albert Post (91), Urk
• Simon van den Berg (65), Gouda

• 1952 » Tim Sebastian, English journalist and author
• 1952 » Wolfgang Rihm, German composer and educator
• 1953 » Andy Bean, American golfer
• 1953 » Michael Curry, 27th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
• 1954 » Robin Duke, Canadian actress and screenwriter
• 1954 » Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Guyanese-English politician and diplomat
• 1955 » Bruno Conti, Italian footballer and manager
• 1955 » Glenne Headly, American actress († 2017)
• 1955 » Olga Rukavishnikova, Russian pentathlete
• 1956 » Dana Delany, American actress and producer

• 1936 » Francis Bell, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)
• 1938 » Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and author (b. 1857)
• 1943 » Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1898)
• 1946 » Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor († 1882)
• 1965 » Fan Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1972 » Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

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 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
• April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
• April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
• September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
• November 27 » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.

The temperature on March 13, 1954 was between 1.3 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.