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• Dina Cornelia Westdijk, Nieuwenhoorn († 2019)
• Debra Diane Simmons, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Elisabeth Wiebrigje Spoelstra, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Johanna Petronella Maria Zuiderduin, Hillegom († 2020)
• Rita Pacqueu, Diksmuide († 2022)
• hendrikus johannes wilhelmina (henk) van oijen, helden-grashoek († 2019)
• Bernard Gerardus Kuis, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1965)
• Berend Kühn, Bremenhaven, Bremen, Duitsland
• Theodora Margaretha Grootveld, Baarn († 2007)
• Maria Johanna Nuijten, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)

• Adrianus Petrus van Osta (68), Sint Janssteen
• Arend Hendriks Schonewille (51), Nieuwlande
• Adriana Petronella HOPSTAKEN (69), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred Charles Allen (79), Middlesex, England
• Alma Lillie Chastain **** (70), Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Akke Dirks Kuik (83), St. Jacobiparochie
• Anna Rebne (77), Grove City, Meeker, Minnesota, 56243, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria Couweleers (74), Breda
• Anna Geertruida Elisabeth (Anna) van de Wiel (63), Amsterdam
• Albert van Noort (82), Rhenen

• 1953 » Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor and singer
• 1953 » Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
• 1953 » Wayne Schimmelbusch, Australian footballer and coach
• 1954 » Cindy Sherman, American photographer and director
• 1954 » Esther Shkalim, Israeli poet and Mizrahi feminist
• 1954 » Katey Sagal, American actress and singer
• 1955 » Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian and actor
• 1956 » Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host
• 1956 » Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist
• 1957 » Ottis Anderson, American football player and sportscaster

• 1938 » Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Gustave Mesny, French general (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Tony Garnier, French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
• 1957 » József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1963 » Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
• 1968 » Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1879)
• 1972 » Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)

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.
• January 2 » Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
• February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
• April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
• September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
• November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
• 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 January 19, 1955 was between -4.3 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (79%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.