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• Petronella Jacoba Schippers († 1982)
• T.B.M(Theo) Rozendaal, Vasse (Tubbergen) († 2016)
• Jacoba Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Theodorus Andreas Henricus Maria Tammer, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland († 1973)
• Catharina Johanna Hubertina Fermont († 2022)
• Irene Timmer, Leiden
• Paulus Johannes Maarten de Jongh, Den Helder
• Janet Kay Schoo, Sheldon, O´Brien County, Iowa († 2010)
• Memory Maude Joyce, Ixopo, Natal, South Africa († 2021)
• Paul de Bruyne, Sint Jansteen,, Zeeland, Nederland († 2001)

• Adriana van der Hooft (84), Schoondijke
• Bernardine Isabelle van Swinderen (69), Heemstede,Gemeente Heemstede,North Holland,Netherlands
• Bernardine Isabelle Swinderen, van (69), Heemstede
• Catharina Johanna Michels (69), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aleida Vehof (87), Bentelo (Ambt Delden)
• Baijens Franciscus Jacobus (45), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Johannes Viets (66)
• Abraham Nagtegaal (58), Utrecht, Nederland
• August Constantin Ernst Mäder (79), Coburg
• Coenraad Seraphinus Mollenberg (66), Amsterdam

• 1951 » Peter Goodfellow, English geneticist and academic
• 1952 » Gábor Demszky, Hungarian sociologist, lawyer, and politician
• 1952 » James Arbuthnot, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 1952 » Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player
• 1953 » Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer and manager
• 1954 » Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Ukraine
• 1954 » François Valéry, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Steve Phillips, English footballer
• 1955 » Alberto Gonzales, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 80th United States Attorney General
• 1955 » Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1940 » Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (b. 1921)
• 1957 » John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
• 1958 » Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (b. 1883)
• 1959 » József Révai, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (b. 1926)
• 1967 » Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)

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 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
• July 7 » Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
• September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
• September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
• December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on August 4, 1954 was between 15.1 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.