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• Hélène Elizabeth Marianne Ferdinand, Den Haag († 2014)
• Wilhelm Mol († 1970)
• Seine Bosscher, Rheezerveen († 2024)
• N.n. Hoeksma, Heerlen
• Paultje van den Corput († 1959)
• Dirk Michel Develter
• Toni Lee O'kones, Grundy Co. Mem. Hosp., Grundy Ctr., Grundy Co., IA († 1955)
• Tabor Kittrell Hill, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida († 2022)
• Eunice van Diggelen († 2002)
• Toni Lee Okones, Grundy County Memorial Hospital Long-Term Care Unit, Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa († 1955)

• Asaph Tremaine Stevens (82), Clam Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Antoon Reijinga (53), amsterdam, Nederland
• Bastiaan Goudswaard (72), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Alltje Jacobse (62), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Amaury Maria Joseph Eduard Paul Ghislain de Ramaix (73), Baulers, BELGIE
• Christinus van de Werken (86), Poederoijen
• Anna Hendrika Schoep (79), 's-Gravenhage
• Aumary Maria Joseph Eduard Paul Ghislain Jonkheer de Ramaix (73), Baulers, Brabant, Wallonië
• Aaltje Huiskamp (65), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albertus Vlaanderen (81), Westzaan

• 1948 » Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer († 1992)
• 1950 » Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic († 2013)
• 1953 » Norberto Alonso, Argentinian footballer
• 1954 » Tina Knowles, American fashion designer, founded House of Deréon
• 1956 » Ann Magnuson, American actress and performance artist
• 1956 » Bernard Sumner, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1956 » Zehava Gal-On, Israeli politician
• 1957 » Patty Loveless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Matt Frewer, American-Canadian actor
• 1960 » Michael Stipe, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1940 » Flora Finch, English-American actress and producer (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1943 » Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (b. 1911)
• 1944 » Kaj Munk, Danish playwright and pastor (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1962 » Hans Lammers, German jurist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » Donald Campbell, English racing driver and world speed record holder (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Paul Chambers, American bassist and composer (b. 1935)

• 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.
• February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• 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.
• May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
• September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
• 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.

The temperature on January 4, 1955 was between -2.9 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east.