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• Adrianus Mattheus van Oudheusden, Rotterdam († 2015)
• levenloos Karssen, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1954)
• Henrica Duurland, Hilversum († 2004)
• N.N. Smilde, Dordrecht, Gemeente Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1954)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1954)
• Bernardina Theodora Maria Glas, Tilburg
• Inez Jean Stuckless, Twillingate, Newfoundland († 2012)
• Arina van Tuijl, Hardinxveld († 2016)
• Johanna Bernardina Opperman, Nijmegen (gd) († 2023)
• Darwin Dean Hartkopp, Iowa Falls, Hardin County, Iowa († 1995)

• Antonia Adriana Boonenburg (66), 's Gravenhage (Den Haag, The Hague, La Haye), Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana van OUDSHOORN (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Achiel, Frederic ALGOET (44), Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,Wvl, België
• Cornelia van de Werken (81), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Alkien Bennink (77), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alphonse Servaas Rozenhout (68), Eijsden
• Cornelia Maria Groenewegen (76), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Daniel Karel du Frenne (74), amsterdam, Nederland
• (84), Avereest, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adriana Neeltje van Nes (92), Boskoop

• 1953 » Emilio Estefan, Cuban-American drummer and producer
• 1953 » John Edwards, Australian director and producer
• 1953 » Paweł Janas, Polish footballer and manager
• 1953 » Ray Price, Australian rugby player and sportscaster
• 1954 » Catherine O'Hara, Canadian-American actress and comedian
• 1954 » François Fillon, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France
• 1954 » Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet and author († 2017)
• 1954 » Peter Jacobsen, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1954 » Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Korean American author († 1982)
• 1954 » Timur Apakidze, Russian general and pilot († 2001)

• 1944 » Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and activist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (b. 1897)
• 1945 » Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
• 1945 » Mark Sandrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1948 » Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1949 » Clarence Kingsbury, English cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1952 » Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1954 » Noel Gay, English composer and songwriter (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Herbert O'Conor, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1963 » William Carlos Williams, American poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1883)

• 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.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• 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.
• November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
• November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.

The temperature on March 4, 1954 was between 1.0 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.