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• Cornelia Johanna Maria Romeijnders, Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1956)
• Alexander Michaël van Lingen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Arie Mulder († 2011)
• Catharina Theresia Maria Haselager, Bussum († 1955)
• Charlie Lynn Caldwell, Hot Spring, Arkansas († 1955)
• Jeffrey DeWayne Roetman, Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa († 2023)
• Alexander Migaël van Lingen, Scheveningen († 2013)
• Frederik Hendrik de Vries
• Jan Linnenbank, 's-Hertogenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Roxanne Raye Griffiths († 1956)

• Evertje Verwoert (88)
• François LENAERTS (72), Kallo, 46010, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Alberta Roskam (78), Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Versloot (81), Ruwiel, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albertus Melis (72), Rotterdam
• Antonetta VROOMEN (82), Eindhoven (NL/NB)
• Antonie van Dongen (73), Den Haag
• Evelyn Boone (41), Cobb, Georgia
• Carrie Louisa Sutton (53), Bartholomew, Indiana, United States
• Cornelia Commandeur (80), Wervershoof

• 1951 » Catherine Hicks, American actress
• 1951 » Daryl Somers, Australian television host and singer
• 1952 » David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician († 2013)
• 1952 » Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1954 » Mark Hughes, English-Australian rugby league player
• 1956 » Bill Emmott, English journalist and author
• 1957 » Bob Horner, American baseball player
• 1957 » Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
• 1958 » Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1945 » Hiram Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Richard Bong, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
• 1946 » Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (b. 1903)
• 1952 » Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)

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. 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.
• 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.
• July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
• July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• November 1 » The Vietnam War begins.
• November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• 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 6, 1955 was between 8.5 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.