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• Petronella Flinterman, Schipluiden, Midden-Delfland, ZH, Nederland († 1987)
• Prive Meijer, den ham
• Petronella Flinterman, Schipluiden († 1987)
• maria gerarda lamberdina (riet) willems, oirlo
• Maartje Goedhart, Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Tjitske Keuning, leeuwarden († 1991)
• Franciscus Marinus Maria van de Westelaken, Den Dungen († 1996)
• John Roy Simmons, Harrison, Boone, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• johannes cornelis maria teeuwen, helden-dorp
• Alvair José Nürnberg, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1995)

• Augustinus Bernardus Willems (83), Dommelen
• Cornelis Tjebbes (76), ´s-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Albert Dirk van den Bergh (25), Los Angeles-Californië (Usa)
• Alle Annema (83), Hurdegaryp, Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Nederland
• Augustinus Bernardus WILLEMS (83), Dommelen, 3502, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Marie Cornelia Dekker (54), Amsterdam
• Agatha Catharina Suringa (70), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertram Llewellyn Reimers (71)
• Antonie Daniel Milo (69), Den Haag
• Antonetta Meulendijks (80), Mierlo, Nbr.NL

• 1952 » Bernadette Porter, English nun and educator
• 1952 » Jiří Paroubek, Czech soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
• 1952 » Joe Strummer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2002)
• 1952 » Keith Hart, Canadian firefighter, wrestler, and trainer
• 1953 » Ivan Stang, American author, publisher, and director
• 1954 » Archie Griffin, American football player
• 1954 » Mark Williams, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Steve Smith, American drummer
• 1956 » Jon Tester, American farmer and politician
• 1956 » Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress

• 1940 » Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1957 » Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 » Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1960 » David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
• 1964 » Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)

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.
• January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
• February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• March 19 » Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record that remains unbroken.
• August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
• November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
• December 4 » The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.

The temperature on August 21, 1954 was between 10.0 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.