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• Gerrit Jan van Denderen, Driebergen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1955)
• Marieke Duysens, Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland († 2015)
• Johanna Jagersma, Leeuwarden († 1961)
• Lucinda Lillian Stone († 1956)
• Antonius Lambertus Maria van Dijk, Wijbosch
• Tertia Koopmans, Utrecht († 2004)
• Aase Rustadbakken, Furnes, Hedmark († 2011)
• Joris Dumont, Roeselaere, België († 1958)
• Yvonne Pans, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1955)
• Kathleen Kirwan, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio († 2014)

• Anna Maria Bertha Prick (74), Maastricht
• Anna Catharina Crijns (70), Swalmen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Abraham Pieter Blommers (66), Haarlem
• Berthus Johan Schultz (59), Dinxperlo
• Antje HUISVELD (76), Utrecht Utrecht Netherlands
• Albert HARMSEN (58), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Mary Babington (88)
• Bernardus van Oene (65), Apeldoorn / Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alfred Benjamin Van Peteghem (91), Eksaarde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Anna Catharina Hövelmann (67)

• 1952 » Annette O'Toole, American actress
• 1952 » Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher and academic
• 1953 » Alberto Zaccheroni, Italian footballer and manager
• 1953 » Barry Sonnenfeld, American cinematographer, director, and producer
• 1954 » Jeff Porcaro, American drummer, songwriter, and producer († 1992)
• 1955 » Don Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster
• 1955 » Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani politician, 5th Commerce Minister of Pakistan
• 1955 » Terry Nichols, American criminal
• 1957 » David Gower, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1957 » Denise Nickerson, American actress († 2019)

• 1946 » Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (b. 1882)
• 1947 » George II, king of Greece (b. 1890)
• 1950 » Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (b. 1904)
• 1950 » Recep Peker, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1889)
• 1962 » Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain and businessman (b. 1910)
• 1965 » Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Brian O'Nolan, Irish author (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1910)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. John
10. Petrus
11. Gerrit
12. Dirk
13. David
14. Adrianus
15. Johan
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Yvonne
11. Petronella
12. Marianne
13. Margaretha
14. Marie
15. Helena
16. Gerda

• 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 10.7 million citizens.
• April 15 » McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
• May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
• May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
• June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

The temperature on April 1, 1955 was between -0.9 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.