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• Nicolette de Meijere
• Anna Hendrika Post, Utrecht, Nederland († 1998)
• Annigje Maria Stigter, Tienhoven, Utrecht, Nederland († 2024)
• Bouke Leeuwerink († 2013)
• Leonie Ewald, Brunssem Nederland († 2013)
• Peter Padje, Usquert
• Willemina Maria Magdalena Jukkema, Haren († 2012)
• Anna Margaretha Maria Tenfelde († 2021)
• Francisco Solano Kons, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1954)
• José Robert Everaert

• Arendje Immerzeel (62), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Hendriks (73), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antonetta Pieternella van Domburg (78), Delft (Delft), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aukje de Vogel (74), Noordwolde, gem. Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Stolze (53), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Corre (77), Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Petrus MAKKEE (80), Utrecht
• Anna Catharina Nathalia Frans (72), Putte
• Anna Adriana Josephina van Dun (51), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Martina Swagerman (72), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1953 » Ülle Rajasalu, Estonian politician
• 1953 » Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker († 1986)
• 1953 » Graeme Souness, Scottish international footballer and manager
• 1953 » Lynn Whitfield, American actress and producer
• 1953 » Michelle Courchesne, Canadian urban planner and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
• 1953 » Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1954 » Ain Lutsepp, Estonian actor and politician
• 1954 » Angela Hernández Nuñez, Dominican author and poet
• 1954 » Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician, 120th Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1954 » Tom Abernethy, American basketball player

• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
• 1967 » Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)

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.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• February 28 » The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
• April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
• 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.
• September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
• September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

The temperature on May 6, 1954 was between 7.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.