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• Edmund L MULLIN Jr., Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Ferdinand Harm Thung, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• NN Slot, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Nn. Fens, Blijham gem. Wedde († 1955)
• Frederik Hein Coppes, Amsterdam
• nn Hurkmans, Veghel († 1955)
• Judy Ann Riffle († 2008)
• Henricus Christiaan Kemme, Coevorden († 1955)
• Bernhard Rösen († 2019)
• Aart van Meerveld, Putten,, Gelderland, Nederland

• Antje Kremer (86), Noordhorn, NL-GR
• Adam Ooms (59), Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arendina Esselink (67), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie VERHOEVEN (84), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
• Cecil Robert Eberhart (56), South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, VS
• Charlotte M. Thoma (51)
• Alphonse Bernard Muyres (52), Douglas Co, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Hermannus Aalders (81), Hellendoorn
• "Geneviève" Ernestine Louise Marie Ghislaine Genêt de Châtenay (78), Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France
• Bentley Lyonel John TOLLEMACHE (71)

• 1953 » Silvana Gallardo, American actress and producer († 2012)
• 1954 » Richard Blackford, English composer
• 1954 » Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1955 » Anne Pringle, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia
• 1955 » Jay McInerney, American novelist and critic
• 1955 » Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1957 » Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic († 2014)
• 1957 » Lorrie Moore, American short story writer
• 1957 » Mark O'Meara, American golfer
• 1957 » Mary Glindon, English lawyer and politician

• 1941 » James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)
• 1956 » Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
• 1957 » A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (b. 1878)
• 1958 » Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host (b. 1919)
• 1963 » Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese businessman and politician, President of Togo (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Anatole de Grunwald, Russian-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
• 1971 » Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1973 » Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (b. 1908)

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. 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.
• April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
• April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
• 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.
• May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
• 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.
• July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.

The temperature on January 13, 1955 was between -1.2 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.