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• Cornelis Ary van den Dool, Leidschendam († 2015)
• Richard Eugene Renfro, La Porte, Indiana († 2011)
• Gerardus Albertus Hendrikus Ten Velde († 2010)
• Françoise Spel, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• jan stoffel leeuwis, wageningen (gelderland) nederland († 1956)
• Regina Margaret Kapalski, New Brunswick, NJ († 2015)
• Joore, Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ido Westerink, Harderwijk († 2013)
• Levensloos Neven, Alken, België († 1955)
• Ciska Spel, Den Helder († 2015)

• Anne Marie SIPTHORP (1), Footscray, Victoria, Australia
• Anna Maria Scheffer (76), Ellecom, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Christina van Commenee (61), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Beant Haarsma (79), Rijs
• Barend Hendrik Cramer (55), Amsterdam
• Adriaan Dalm (61), almkerk en uitwijk (noord brabant)
• Tetje Koch (75), Groningen
• Adriaan (Ariaan) Dalm (61), Almkerk
• Anna Cornelia BUIS (43), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• anna jacoba wilhelmina korting (77), etten-leur, noord-brabant, nederland

• 1953 » Carl Jackson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1954 » Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach († 2007)
• 1954 » Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician († 1996)
• 1954 » Steven Pinker, Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author
• 1954 » Takao Doi, Japanese engineer and astronaut
• 1954 » Tommy Tuberville, American football player and coach
• 1955 » Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter
• 1955 » Paul Butler, English bishop
• 1956 » Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
• 1956 » Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player and politician

• 1949 » Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1951 » Gelett Burgess, American author and poet (b. 1866)
• 1952 » Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano and actress (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
• 1956 » Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
• 1959 » Benjamin Péret, French poet and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1961 » Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Therese Neumann, German mystic (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (b. 1881)

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.
• 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.
• June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
• June 11 » Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
• August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
• September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

The temperature on September 18, 1955 was between 6.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.