About the day » Saturday June 26, 1954Calender converter

• Robert W Evans, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States († 1976)
• Peter Koolen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Philippa van Wittelsbach Prinses van Beieren, Slot Leutstetten, Oberbayern, Beieren († 1954)
• Michael Wilson Harrison, Stanislaus Co., California, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Willem Jacobus Eversdijk, Tilburg († 1988)
• Naamloos Lokhorst, Utrecht († 1954)
• Willemijntje Katharina Meijers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Anna Maria Wijnen, Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland († 2023)
• Johanna Maria Smeltink, Noordwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Jan Kwakman († 2024)

• Anton Jozef Bodamer (57), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Kromhout (56), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annigjen Scholte (76), Haskerland
• Christiaan Gijsbertus de Gier (89), Orthen
• Clarence G. Blakeslee (91), New Haven, New Haven, CT
• Adrianus Maas, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia van Gurp (86), Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Aartje RAZENBERG (70)
• Antje Bijlsma (78), harlingen
• Aukje de Boer (69), Leeuwarden

• 1951 » Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager († 2014)
• 1952 » Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1952 » Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist († 1979)
• 1954 » Luis Arconada, Spanish footballer
• 1955 » Gedde Watanabe, American actor
• 1955 » Mick Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » Catherine Samba-Panza, interim president of the Central African Republic
• 1956 » Chris Isaak, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1956 » Patrick Mercer, English colonel and politician
• 1957 » Al Hunter Ashton, English actor and screenwriter († 2007)

• 1946 » Max Kögel, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1947 » R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
• 1949 » Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
• 1955 » Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895)
• 1956 » Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
• 1956 » Richie Powell, American pianist (b. 1931)
• 1957 » Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (b. 1909)
• 1958 » Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1958 » George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler (b. 1873)

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 2 » India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
• 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.
• April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
• June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
• August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
• November 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.

The temperature on June 26, 1954 was between 12.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.