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• Gerardus HOLLENBERG, Castricum († 2011)
• Jacoba Cornelia Spijker, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Andrew Donald Mathis, Greenville, Pitt, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Maria Nicole Appeltants, Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, België († 1955)
• Aaldert Gruppen († 2006)
• Riena Langmuur, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Lidy Kuijvenhoven, Naaldwijk
• Margriet Dekkers († 2005)
• Cornelia Johanna van der Harst, Scheveningen († 1979)
• Willem Albertsma († 2007)

• Arnolda Berendina Lötgerink (71), Enschede
• Arnoldina Berendina Lötgerink (71), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana van Gerven (69)
• "Jean" Honoré Pierre Ponsar (74), Cramans, Jura, France
• Arnolda Berendina Lotgerink (71), Enschede, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Sophie Theunis (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Broersma (77), Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Harmanna Helena Lichter (62), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Adrianus Swenne (74), Ouwerkerk
• Cornelis Swan (80), Hoogwoud, NH, Nederland

• 1951 » Jim DeMint, American politician
• 1951 » Mark Harmon, American actor and producer
• 1952 » Jimmy Connors, American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1952 » Mihhail Lotman, Estonian linguist, scholar, and politician
• 1953 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician, Afghan Minister of Defense († 2001)
• 1953 » John Zorn, American saxophonist, composer, and producer
• 1953 » Maurice Colclough, English rugby player († 2006)
• 1954 » Billi Gordon, American neuroscientist, author, and actor. († 2018)
• 1954 » Gai Waterhouse, Scottish-Australian horse trainer and businesswoman
• 1956 » Mario Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1943 » Marsden Hartley, American painter and poet (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-American model and author (b. 1895)
• 1945 » Mason Phelps, American golfer (b. 1885)
• 1948 » Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
• 1953 » Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
• 1954 » Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and political scientist (b. 1900)
• 1962 » William Wilkerson, American publisher and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)

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 21 » The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USSNautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
• 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.
• March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
• May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
• September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
• December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on September 2, 1954 was between 14.9 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.