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• N.N. van Mook, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1954)
• Johan Maes, Torhout, West-Vlaanderen (B) († 2018)
• Willem Petrus de Graaf, Maarssen († 2020)
• Jan Hendrik Kamp, Almelo († 1955)
• Craig Lynn Ykema, Hawarden Sioux County IOWA († 1975)
• Walter Eijkenboom, Maastricht († 2014)
• Rolland Bresser, Waupun, Wisconsin 53963, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Janelle J Pinardi († 2018)
• Duane van Landegen, Rock Island, Ill (USA) († 2007)
• Charles Wesley HAUGHWOUT III († 2008)

• Anna Wassenaar (79), Sassenheim
• Dirk Willem de Brons (76), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Benjamin Keus (78), scheveningen
• Clazina Christina van Gorkum (64), Uithoorn
• Anna Wassenaar (79), Sassenheim, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van Haarlem (90)
• Catharina Adriana Rademaker (55), Rotterdam
• Catharina Adriana Rademaker (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Charlotte (Lottie) YOUNG (DONELLAN) (75), Napa, California
• Elisabeth Philippina Rijff (66), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1952 » Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
• 1952 » John McCutcheon, American folksinger
• 1953 » James Horner, American composer and conductor († 2015)
• 1954 » Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1954 » Stanley A. McChrystal, American general
• 1956 » Andy King, English footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1956 » Erica Flapan, American mathematician
• 1956 » Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality
• 1956 » Rusty Wallace, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1956 » Sharon Bryant, American R&B singer

• 1943 » Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)
• 1951 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
• 1956 » Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
• 1963 » Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)

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.
• April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
• October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.
• November 13 » Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
• November 27 » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
• December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on August 14, 1954 was between 10.0 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.