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• Loren Jesse Grover († 1958)
• Wierenga, Ten Boer, Groningen, Nederland († 1954)
• Frederick William "John" Augustus Hervey, Ickworth House, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Royaume-Uni († 1999)
• NN van Leijen, Arnhem GL NL
• Petronella Maria Wessling († 1958)
• Cornelis Adrianus Maria van der Horst, Fijnaart en Heijningen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Grietje van der Galiën († 2015)
• Ronald J Van Theemsche, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Anja de Brouwer, Goirle († 1981)
• Gregory Allen Young, Birmingham, Alabama († 1999)

• Berend Jan Woestenenk (56), Markelo, Nederland
• Antje Dijk (81), Tolbert, gem. Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius Kurvers (56), Tilburg
• "Marie" Léonine Yvonne de Reynold (70), Fribourg, Suisse
• Arthur Omer LAFRANCE (62), Civic Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario
• Calvin F Reineking (74), Kiel, Wisconsin
• Antonetta Janssen (85), Tegelen
• Antonia Jansen (71), Hengelo
• Charles Louis Despeghel (81), Kortemark
• Barbara Apolonia Laclé (98), Oranjestad, Aruba

• 1952 » Paula Duncan, Australian actress
• 1952 » Ratnajeevan Hoole, Sri Lankan engineer and academic
• 1952 » Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1953 » Keiko Takeshita, Japanese actress
• 1954 » Adrian Adonis, American wrestler († 1988)
• 1954 » Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist († 2007)
• 1955 » Željka Antunović, Croatian politician, 9th Croatian Minister of Defence
• 1955 » Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer († 2019)
• 1955 » Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor, singer, cinematographer, and producer
• 1955 » Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing

• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (b. 1881)
• 1952 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Steve Brown, American bassist (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Baki Süha Ediboğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1915)
• 1972 » Geoffrey Fisher, English archbishop and academic (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1906)

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 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
• March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
• 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.
• March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.

The temperature on September 15, 1954 was between 9.1 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.