About the day » Friday August 20, 1954Calender converter

• James (Jim) Nuyen († 2016)
• James Morton Feltman († 2002)
• Connie Mack Gabbard, Ohio, Kentucky, United States († 2010)
• Ricky Paul Smith, Dallas Dalla, Texas († 2005)
• Anja van Akooij († 2012)
• Jan Kip, Hoogeveen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Margo Immeker († 1966)
• Marta Ottoni Barreto, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil († 1996)
• Jaques Marie Verhage, Nijmegen, Gelderland, NL († 1954)
• Norman Kevin DECKER, Willmar, MN († 1989)

• Ariaantje Mars (92), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Barbara Hacking (80), Beek
• Anna Barbara Hacking (80), Beek, Netherlands
• Adriana van der Blom (67), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• David William Morris (85)
• Aren Kattestaart (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Philippus Hendrikus van den Bos (69), Rotterdam
• Bernard Alphonse Baudry (100)
• Alida Marritje Levelt (72), Amsterdam Noord-Holland
• Antje Alberts Alma (72), Harkema

• 1953 » Gerry Bertier, American football player († 1981)
• 1953 » Jim Trenton, American radio host and actor
• 1953 » Leroy Burgess, American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer
• 1953 » Mike Jackson, American politician
• 1953 » Peter Horton, American actor and director
• 1954 » Al Roker, American news anchor, television personality, and author
• 1954 » Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach
• 1954 » Tawn Mastrey, American radio host and producer († 2007)
• 1955 » Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and author
• 1955 » Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)

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 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
• August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
• September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
• September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
• November 7 » In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
• December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".

The temperature on August 20, 1954 was between 12.2 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.