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• Guus Philips, Maasbree († 1976)
• Alex Schmeitz, Maastricht († 2017)
• NN van den Beld, Zeist {UT} († 1954)
• Aad van Veelen († 2002)
• Hendrik Jan Berner († 1978)
• Jacoba Aria Schonenberg, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Christiana Roelfina (Christa) Strating († 2019)
• Daryle James van Vuuren, Platte, Charles Mix County, South Dakota († 1955)
• Everdina Josina van de Scheur, Hien († 2013)
• Dingena Maria Stap, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2000)

• Antoinetta Oudshoorn (92), Koudekerk aan den Rijn
• Antonetta Oudshoorn (92), Katwijk aan de Rijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Brasilia Carr, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Catherine SOUTH (73), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America
• Anges Ione Petty (53), Storm Lake, Buena Vista, Iowa, United States
• Antje Hendriks Jonkman (80), Wateren, Westerveld, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agnes Clara Willomena {Bussen} Miller (72), Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
• Antonia Johanna Cornelia de Jong (88), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Pancratia Funcke (0), Leiden
• Antje Both (72), heukelum (gelderland)

• 1953 » Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
• 1954 » Jack Blades, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1954 » Mumia Abu-Jamal, American journalist, activist, and convicted murderer
• 1955 » Bill Osborne, New Zealand rugby player
• 1955 » Eamon Gilmore, Irish trade union leader and politician, 25th Tánaiste of Ireland
• 1955 » Guy Nève, Belgian race car driver († 1992)
• 1955 » John de Mol Jr., Dutch businessman, co-founded Endemol
• 1955 » Margaret Moran, British politician and criminal
• 1955 » Marion Caspers-Merk, German politician
• 1955 » Michael O'Keefe, American actor

• 1944 » Charles Jordan, American magician (b. 1888)
• 1945 » Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
• 1947 » Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902)
• 1947 » Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Guy Mairesse, French race car driver (b. 1910)
• 1960 » Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Lee Moran, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Milt Franklyn, American composer (b. 1897)
• 1964 » Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1895)

• 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 21 » The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USSNautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• August 24 » Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
• December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.

The temperature on April 24, 1954 was between 0.2 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.