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• Lucien Wilhelmus Cornelis Maria van Amelsfoort, Goirle († 1955)
• Hilda Jetiena (Hilda) van Staalduinen, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• Johannes Geerhard Noppers, Emmen († 2012)
• Magda Van Hoecke († 1978)
• Russel-Arthur Milne, Toronto
• Antonius Bernardus Maria Holterman, Raalte († 1992)
• Aldo Rodrigues Samarão Guimarães, Brasil († 1973)
• Marie-Thérèse Cleren, Sint-Truiden, België († 2009)
• Steven Marinus Steffens, Apeldoorn (Gld.) († 2013)
• Anja Chorus, Geleen,6129,Sittard-Geleen,Limburg,Nederland

• Aimee-Florence Meilleur (56)
• Adriaan Cornelis Oele (72), Kapelle,D
• Jannetje van der Plas (61), Katwijk
• Aalfje van Doorn (80)
• Anna Maria Nooten (59), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Hoogewerf (90), Castricum
• Andreas Geldmeijer (78), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Aafje van Doorn (80)
• Aloysius Courtens (76), Staden
• Franqué (54), Aalst, Alost, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

• 1954 » Deborah Blum, American journalist and author
• 1954 » Joe Bryant, American basketball player and coach
• 1954 » Sam Allardyce, English footballer and manager
• 1955 » Dan Gutman, American author
• 1955 » LaSalle Ishii, Japanese actor and director
• 1956 » Carlo Urbani, Italian physician († 1993)
• 1956 » Didier Theys, Belgian race car driver and coach
• 1956 » Elena Garanina, Soviet ice dancer and coach
• 1956 » Grover Norquist, American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform
• 1956 » Steve Doocy, American journalist and author

• 1945 » N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and politician, 40th President of Mexico (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1952 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Isham Jones, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1894)
• 1960 » George Wallace, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Şemsettin Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883)
• 1964 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Sergey Biryuzov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)

• 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 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 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
• May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
• 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.
• September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
• September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

The temperature on October 19, 1955 was between 0.5 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.