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• Bouwinus Slijm († 2004)
• Willem Marinus Pieter Bras († 1996)
• Anna Toes, Ermelo († 1954)
• Craig Kenyon Mccreary, Indiana († 1998)
• Louis van Bijnen, Heusden († 2003)
• Hans Alphons Augusta Mussche, Sas van Gent, Nederland († 2008)
• hubertina mathea gerarda (tiny) rooijakkers, helden-grashoek
• Johan Lucas, Paal († 2006)
• Annie Mertens
• Anna Maria Pancratia Funcke, Leiden († 1954)

• Antonia Cornelia Dirken (82), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Miggels (41), Giethoorn
• Alberdina Clasina (Dien) VERBREE (76), Delft
• Adriana Reuvers (51), Dordrecht
• Anna Dorothea Saul (69), Duderstadt, Preußen
• Anne Hamstra (62), Olst, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Cornelis van Dongen (82), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Cornelis Dirken (81), Hillegom
• Anna Josephina Van de Laak (53), Den Bosch, Netherlands
• Antje Bot (55), rotterdam (zuid holland)

• 1951 » Aivars Kalējs, Latvian organist, composer, and pianist
• 1951 » Ana María Shua, Argentinian author and poet
• 1951 » Paul Carrack, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Dave Loveridge, New Zealand rugby player
• 1952 » François Berléand, French actor
• 1952 » Phil Smith, American basketball player († 2002)
• 1953 » Richard Broadbent, English businessman
• 1953 » Valeri Bondarenko, Estonian footballer and coach
• 1955 » David Collier, English businessman
• 1957 » Donald Tusk, Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland

• 1944 » Nikolaos Roussen, Greek captain (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (b. 1867)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1946 » Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer and jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1946 » Lionel Atwill, English-American actor (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Charles Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (b. 1895)
• 1951 » Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (b. 1870)
• 1956 » Walt Faulkner, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1968 » Stephen H. Sholes, American record producer (b. 1911)

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 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
• August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
• September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.

The temperature on April 22, 1954 was between 2.7 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.