About the day » Monday March 15, 1954Calender converter

• Johannes Henderikus van der Loo, Delft
• André DEWANCKELE, Ukkel, 1180, Vlaams-Brabant, BELGIË († 1954)
• Menno Johannes Buiskool, Sappemeer († 2024)
• Johannes Martinus Maria van Eijck, Gilze en Rijen
• Thomas Jacobus Josefhus (Tommie) BEX, Haelen (NL/LI) († 1961)
• Cheryl Islyn 'Minzie' († 2021)
• Claude Maurice Auguste GAUDEMER, Montfort-l'Amaury, Yvelines, Île-De-France, France († 2010)
• Casparus Christoffel Nicolaas Maria Steens, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 2011)
• NN Van Schaik, Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1954)
• Levenloos Bras, alkmaar († 1954)

• Berendina Swaters (90), Didam,Montferland,Gelderland,Nederland
• Dieuwertje BOERSEN (52), Wieringen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha Henriette Leonore Hoijng (83), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Delia Dell Fernandes (72), Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois
• Bartholomeus Steijger (82)
• Charlotte Maria Wilhelmina de Boer (33), Modjokerto
• Anna Cornelia Hammendorp (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• berendina swaters (91), didam
• Augusta Maria Joseph (78)
• Charlotte Emilie Horstmann (75), 's Gravenhage

• 1953 » Heather Graham Pozzessere, American author
• 1953 » Kumba Ialá, Bissau-Guinean educator and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau († 2014)
• 1953 » Richard Bruton, Irish economist and politician, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
• 1954 » Bob Budiansky, American author and illustrator
• 1954 » Craig Wasson, American actor
• 1954 » Henry Marsh, American runner and businessman, co-founded MonaVie
• 1954 » Isobel Buchanan, Scottish soprano and actress
• 1954 » Massimo Bubola, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1955 » Dee Snider, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1955 » Mohsin Khan, Pakistani cricketer

• 1939 » Luis Barceló, Spanish colonel (b. 1896)
• 1941 » Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian-German painter (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Otto von Below, Prussian general (b. 1857)
• 1951 » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Ernst Nobs, Swiss politician (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1909)
• 1962 » Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1966 » Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)

• 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.
• February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
• April 7 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
• September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.

The temperature on March 15, 1954 was between 0.8 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.