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• Barbara Ann Brinkman, Greene, Butler County, Iowa († 2018)
• Regi Engel, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1995)
• Jacobus Leonardus Maria Elisabeth van Reisen, Sassenheim († 2001)
• Peter Johan Kooiman, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Gonny van Schilt, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)
• Glenn Wendell Rodgers, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• N.N. Oomen, Gilze en Rijen († 1955)
• Gloria M Buss, Brighton, Sussex († 1994)
• Koop Koekoek († 1971)
• Johannes Cornelis Gijsbert Gillissen, Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands († 2019)

• Cornelis Martinus van Nieuwenhoven (73), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha Tracy Bement (80), Tryon, Polk, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Antoinette Maria Johanna Nollet (80), Duisburg, NRWF (D)
• Casper Adriaan Petrus Kuipers (55), Rotterdam, Nederland
• * Willem Vonk (77), Giessen-Nieuwkerk
• Adriana Catharina van den Corput (35), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Horsting (76), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Dongen (66), Tilburg
• Arendina Hulst (84), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Janssen (62), Stein, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1953 » José Bové, French farmer and politician
• 1953 » Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton, English politician
• 1954 » John Dyson, Australian cricketer
• 1954 » Johnny Neel, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1955 » Duncan Steel, English-Australian astronomer and author
• 1955 » Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower
• 1956 » Arthur Porter, Canadian physician and academic († 2015)
• 1956 » Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American bass player and bandleader
• 1956 » Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster
• 1956 » Simon Plouffe, Canadian mathematician and academic

• 1936 » Robert E. Howard, American author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1937 » R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (b. 1895)
• 1941 » Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
• 1955 » Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
• 1963 » Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)
• 1965 » José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)

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. Jacobus

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. Gerda
16. Helena

• 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.
• February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
• April 1 » The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
• June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
• August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
• August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.

The temperature on June 11, 1955 was between 2.9 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.