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• Taeke Andries Deinum, Workum († 2014)
• John Ernest van Haaften, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 1980)
• Cornelis van Brenk († 1988)
• Frank Soltysiak Johnson, New York (USA) († 1990)
• Anneke Konijn, Koedijk
• doodgeboren dochter 't Hart, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1954)
• Aaltje van Veelen, Pernis (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Taeke Andries Deinum, Workum, Nijefurd, Friesland, Nederland († 2014)
• Nn Mak, Zwolle, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje JAGER, Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 2003)

• Antonie Valkenburg (62), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Alberdina Simonsdr Waterdrinker (71), Pretoria (Zuid Afrika)
• Antonius Bernard Maria Kollmer (60), Alkmaar
• Albertus Menning (87), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
• Liborius Johannes Notelaer (68), Chantilly
• Allan HERBERT (75), Bures St Mary, Suffolk, England
• Boudewina Hendrika Nel (68), Bloemendaal
• Bernardus Franciscus van Tienen (81), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus Fransiscus van Tienen (81), Bemmel
• Catharina Maria Wubben (43), Velsen

• 1951 » Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian journalist
• 1952 » Ken McEwan, South African cricketer
• 1952 » Marc Esposito, French director and screenwriter
• 1952 » Richard Egielski, American author and illustrator
• 1952 » Stewart Copeland, American drummer and songwriter
• 1953 » Douglas J. Feith, American lawyer and politician, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• 1954 » Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
• 1955 » Saw Swee Leong, Malaysian badminton player
• 1955 » Susan Wheeler, American poet and academic
• 1956 » Tony Kushner, American playwright and screenwriter

• 1939 » Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1953 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (b. 1888)
• 1960 » Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1960 » John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Boris Artzybasheff, Ukrainian-American illustrator (b.1899)
• 1969 » James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (b. 1930)
• 1981 » Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)

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 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
• July 7 » Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
• August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
• September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
• 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.

The temperature on July 16, 1954 was between 8.9 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.