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• Melissa BUTLER, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Of America († 2014)
• Jimmy Paulk, Montgomery M, Alabama († 2006)
• Melissa Buttler, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A († 2014)
• Steven Paul Eekhoff, Belmond, Wright County, Iowa († 2000)
• Johannes Jozef Gerardus Marie (4 jaar) Lemmens, Geulle, Limburg, Netherlands († 1958)
• Fransina Klazina (Francien) Perfors, Leiden († 2021)
• Francina Klazina Perfors, Leiden
• Antonius Maria Joseph ( Tonnie) METTEN, Geldrop(N-Br.) († 1957)
• Hendrik Kreuk († 2007)
• Naamloos Verbeek, Noordwijkerhout († 1954)

• Agatha Alida van den Bosch (79), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Casper van Coesant (79), Amsterdam
• Albert Geuzinge (72), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anne Fokkes Wijbenga (46)
• Anna Wilhelmina Riethoff (63), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Bijl (81)
• Bertha Gertrude Libengood (76), Nebraska
• Cornelia van Vlijmen (77), Oost en West Souburg
• Abraham van Hulst (0), Rockanje, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Geuzinge (72), Westerbork

• 1951 » Rudolf Finsterer, German rugby player and coach
• 1951 » Toomas Vilosius, Estonian physician and politician, 2nd Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia
• 1952 » Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco († 2017)
• 1952 » Jorge Llopart, Spanish race walker
• 1952 » Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician († 2014)
• 1955 » Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer
• 1956 » Steve Scott, American runner and coach
• 1957 » Aad van Mil, Dutch water polo player
• 1957 » Peter Howitt, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1931 » Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
• 1947 » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1957 » Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1971 » Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)

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.
• May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• September 3 » The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.
• September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
• October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
• December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

The temperature on May 5, 1954 was between 3.4 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.