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• Hendrika Antonia Wilhelmina Braun, Noordwijkerhout († 2009)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1954)
• Roland Cyriel Alex HEYNEMAN, Knokke,8300,West Vlaanderen,BELGIE († 2001)
• Johanna Bakhuis, Westerhaar († 2020)
• Joel Lee Aalfs, Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa († 1973)
• Gladis Paula Yvette DEVOS († 2016)
• Wilhelmina Cornelia Nicoline Rodermond, Heerlen († 1980)
• Wijnker, Alkmaar († 1954)
• Doodgeboren kind Paulusse, Tilburg († 1954)
• Gerke-Jan Bijsterveld, Sauwerd gem. Adorp († 2003)

• Adrianus Cornelis van Tilburg (60), Halsteren
• Antje Sybes Postma (64), Hallum
• Catharina Louisa Johanna Maltha (72), 's-Gravenhage
• Alphonsus Antonius Johannes Jochems (0), Nieuw-Ginneken
• Anna Berta Sitzman (70), Fulda, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Bird Walter Erwin (86), Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Charles Edward Scott (79), Charlevoix, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Veter (84), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Hermina Ninaber (55), Velp
• Anne Timo Engelsman (58), Groningen

• 1949 » Tommy Mottola, American businessman and music publisher
• 1950 » Bruce Oldfield, English fashion designer
• 1952 » Bob Casale, American guitarist, keyboard player, and producer († 2014)
• 1952 » Franklin Graham, American evangelist and missionary
• 1952 » George Lewis, American musician and composer
• 1952 » Joel Silver, American actor and producer, co-founded Dark Castle Entertainment
• 1953 » Martha Coakley, American lawyer and politician, 58th Attorney General of Massachusetts
• 1955 » L. Brent Bozell III, American journalist and activist, founded the Media Research Center
• 1958 » Mircea Geoana, Romanian politician and diplomat, 97th Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1959 » Aubrey McClendon, American businessman († 2016)

• 1936 » Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (b. 1890)
• 1937 » Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (b. 1874)
• 1939 » Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1860)
• 1954 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1965 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1900)
• 1966 » Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1970 » Preston Foster, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1974 » Carl Spaatz, American World War II general; commander of the Strategic Air Forces in Europe (b. 1891)

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 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
• March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
• April 1 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
• 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.
• October 10 » The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat.
• October 15 » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.

The temperature on July 14, 1954 was between 9.8 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.