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• Elisabeth Govarda Steen van, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland († 1955)
• Anthonia Wilhelmina van Zetten, Wageningen († 1956)
• Piet Smits, Sint-Michielsgestel († 2021)
• Cornelis Breur († 2018)
• Christopher Patrick Ware, Poughkeepsie, NY († 2007)
• Pieternella Johanna (Elly) Verwijs, 's Gravenhage († 2014)
• NN Boksem, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Theodorus Jacobus Maria Felix van Winden († 1960)
• Geertje Nijland († 2004)
• Marc MEIJER, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)

• Cornelia Johanna Rekkers (68), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Alberdina Meinen (76), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Brink (60), Amsterdam,-
• Catharina Cornelia Maria Jannes (73), Den Helder N.H
• Cornelis Kulk (82), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Betske van der Velde (76), Buitenpost, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna DEROOS (81), Sioux County, Iowa
• Betske Hendriks van der Velde (76), Buitenpost
• Aleida Abbink (59), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Rekkers (68), Loon op Zand

• 1951 » Brad Delp, American musician and singer († 2007)
• 1952 » Junior Brown, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Pete Farndon, English bass player and songwriter († 1983)
• 1952 » Spencer Abraham, American academic and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Energy
• 1953 » Rocky Burnette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 » Tim Razzall, Baron Razzall, English lawyer and politician
• 1956 » Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1957 » Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1957 » Timothy Busfield, American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 » Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1944 » Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)
• 1946 » Médéric Martin, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (b. 1875)
• 1957 » Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
• 1962 » John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)
• 1966 » Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (b. 1895)

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. Margaretha
13. Marianne
14. Gerda
15. Marie
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.
• January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
• May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
• 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.
• September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
• December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

The temperature on June 12, 1955 was between 8.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.