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• Petrus Maria (Peter) Stokman, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Joseph Allen Dornbos, Goshen (Elkhart, Indiana, USA) († 1955)
• Hendrik Van Meerveld, Barneveld-Zwartebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 2002)
• Johanna van den Bosch, Zevenbergen († 1999)
• Dirkje de Bruin († 2021)
• Anja Ververs, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Hinke (Ineke) Beekelaar, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Herman Vellema († 1995)
• Alexander Maurits (Sam) Bol, Utrecht († 2014)
• Herman Vellema († 1995)

• Agatha Agnes Cecilia SOMBROEK (14), Edam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Baltus Davids Reinhart (86), ,, Hoogkerk, Hoogkerk, Groningen, Netherlands
• Auke Hantjes Hannema (71), Dedgum
• Aagje Mieog (79), Arnhem
• Allard Pierson (70), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Visser (78), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Cornelis André Vlaanderen (73), Brugge (België)
• Célestine de Cauwer (84), Sint-Niklaas
• Antonius Heijmans (86), Noordwijkerhout
• Arthur William Vidler (87), Wadhurst, Sussex, England

• 1952 » John Jarratt, Australian actor and producer
• 1952 » Louis Walsh, Irish talent manager
• 1952 » Tamás Faragó, Hungarian water polo player
• 1953 » Rick Mahler, American baseball player and coach († 2005)
• 1955 » Eddie Ojeda, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1956 » Christopher Chessun, English Anglican bishop
• 1956 » Jerry Ciccoritti, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 » David Gill, English businessman
• 1957 » Faith Prince, American actress and singer
• 1957 » Larry Corowa, Australian rugby league player

• 1944 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
• 1946 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 » Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886)

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.
• March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
• April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
• April 15 » McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
• May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.
• December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

The temperature on August 5, 1955 was between 7.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.