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• Petrus Franciscus Marinus Antonius van Dun, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1955)
• Harm LENTEN, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1972)
• Albertus Hoftijzer († 2006)
• John van Hamersveld, Den Helder († 2015)
• Jan Harm Hutten († 1976)
• Gloria May McFarlane, Riverton, Southland, South Island, New Zealand († 2011)
• Gerrit Kappert († 1977)
• Rinie Heijnen († 2011)
• Maria Lubberts Kramer, Urk, Gemeente Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 2025)
• Johannes Lambregts, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1975)

• Clóvis de Albuquerque Furtado (52)
• Anna Maria Catharina HAGEN (66), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Auguste Johannes van Wijk (88), 's-Gravenhage (Den Haag), Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice M Gerard (65), Islip, Suffolk County, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Gomies, Westerbork
• Alban Joseph Hélion Gabriel de Villeneuve (96), Davenescourt
• Aaltje Kist (80), Meppel Drenthe Nederland
• Adrianus Bos (58), Rotterdam
• Alphons Bernardus Scholter (67), Koewacht
• Aaltje Fernhout (74)

• 1953 » Les Miles, American football player and coach
• 1954 » Bob Stanley, American baseball player and coach
• 1954 » Kevin Spraggett, Canadian chess player
• 1955 » Jack Clark, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1955 » Roland Emmerich, German director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 » Mohsen Badawi, Egyptian businessman and activist
• 1956 » Sinbad, American comedian, actor, and producer
• 1957 » Nigel Evans, Welsh politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
• 1958 » Deborah Cameron, English linguist, anthropologist, and academic
• 1958 » Stephen Herek, American director and producer

• 1928 » Anita Berber, German dancer (b. 1899)
• 1936 » Louis Gustave Binger, French general and explorer (b. 1856)
• 1938 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish field marshal and statesman, 1st President of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Carrie Derick, Canadian botanist and geneticist (b. 1862)
• 1946 » Louis Zutter, Swiss gymnast (b. 1856)
• 1956 » Gordon MacQuarrie, American author and journalist (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian-American computer scientist (b. 1911)
• 1971 » Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author and academic (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Ernest M. McSorley, Canadian-American captain (b. 1912)

• 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 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
• 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.
• July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

The temperature on November 10, 1955 was between 7.6 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.