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• Trudy (Geertruda Elizabeth) Goedhart, Amsterdam († 1965)
• dg Bastmeijer, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland († 1954)
• NN Kooi, Uithuizermeeden († 1954)
• Lee Edwin Sharpless, Willard († 1977)
• Catharina KWAKMAN († 2018)
• Pieter Hofland, Scheveningen Nederland († 2013)
• Bas van Dijkhuizen, Tiel, GLD, Nederland († 2010)
• Thea Swinkels, Breugel, Nbr.NL († 1971)
• Nicolet Steenis, Zoelen (NL) († 2004)
• Henricus Johannes Wilhelmus (Henk) Boss, Westervoort Gelderland Nederland († 1989)

• Dirksje van der Linden (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barbera Jantiena Puthuis (64), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Barbera Jantiena Pathuis (64), Groningen
• Anna Moojen (74), Bloemendaal
• Barbera Jantiena Pathuis (64), Groningen
• Barbera Jantina Pathuis (64), Groningen
• Arie Tollenaar (81), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Catherine Seese (92), Ogletown, Ogle Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
• Cornelia van Bruinisse (47), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Celestina "Rienchie" Kock (77)

• 1950 » Frédéric François, Belgian-Italian singer-songwriter
• 1950 » Juan José Muñoz, Argentinian businessman († 2013)
• 1950 » Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter and producer († 2015)
• 1952 » Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter († 2009)
• 1952 » David Richards, Welsh entrepreneur and businessman
• 1954 » Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Susan Landau, American mathematician and engineer
• 1956 » Danny Wilde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » George Burley, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1957 » Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player

• 1938 » John Flanagan, Irish-American hammer thrower and tug of war competitor (b. 1873)
• 1946 » Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)

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.
• March 13 » The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory lead to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
• June 9 » Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• 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.
• October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
• November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.

The temperature on June 3, 1954 was between 12.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.