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• Jose Angel Cruz Zambrano, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico († 1982)
• Rita Stabler († 2018)
• Loes Froklage, Wateringen († 2016)
• Agatha Maria SPIL († 1956)
• Jan Oomke Uuldriks, Zuidbroek († 2004)
• Albert van der Zanden, Sint-Oedenrode,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1985)
• Gary Lee MEEKHOF, Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan U.S.A († 1955)
• Jean Michel LEPERLIER, Saint-Louis,97421,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1956)
• Margaretha Louise Barendregt († 2004)
• Thijs Schuttinga, Kloosterburen, Neth

• Aaltje de Jonge (55), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth Alphonsa Wentholt (72), Amsterdam
• Anna van den Hengel (74), Hoogland
• Arie Warnaar (83), Maassluis-Nederland
• Alexander Karel Maria Hugo Graaf Paar (73), Wenen
• Cornelis Dirksz Pals (79), Harlingen
• Alexandre de Paar (73)
• Aaltje de Jonge (55), Hoogeveen
• Binne Jans de Boer (78), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth Baas (78), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1953 » Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
• 1953 » James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer
• 1954 » Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
• 1954 » Emma Dent Coad, British politician
• 1954 » Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer
• 1954 » Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1954 » Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer († 2003)
• 1955 » Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
• 1956 » Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer
• 1957 » Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor

• 1949 » Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1949 » Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1951 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1959 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 » Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
• 1961 » Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1961 » Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)

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. Jacobus

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.
• May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• 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.
• August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
• 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 Vietnam War begins.

The temperature on November 15, 1955 was between 1.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.