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• Catharina Maria Kaptein, Akersloot († 2020)
• Jan Peter Ravensbergen, Leiden († 1984)
• Jannetje Boers († 2010)
• Anita Delvoux († 2004)
• Linda R Reitsma, Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota († 2022)
• Arnold Vanglabbeek, Weebosch-Nederland († 1990)
• Gerhardus Antonius Maria Janssen, Rosmalen († 1963)
• Donna A Backes, Bristol, Pennsylvania († 1956)
• Michael Sean VanDenBerg, Sandpoint, Idaho, VS († 2018)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1955)

• * Franciscus van Mazijk (73), Beverwijk
• Adriana Johanna La Fontijn (89), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Adrianus Carel Schaareman (57), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Jans Waldus (83), Assen
• Anthonetta Quist (41), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna van Bavel (80), Teteringen
• Antje Waldus (83), Assen
• Catharinus de Jong (81), Zwijndrecht
• Arie Plugge (71), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Tadema (70), Zwolle

• 1951 » Pat Hill, American football player and coach
• 1953 » Bill Pullman, American actor
• 1954 » Sergėjus Jovaiša, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1955 » Brad Davis, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1956 » Dominic Lawson, English journalist and author
• 1956 » Peter Farrelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 » Totka Petrova, Bulgarian runner
• 1957 » Bob Ojeda, American baseball player and coach
• 1957 » Wendy Hoyte, English sprinter
• 1958 » Mike Mills, American bass player, songwriter, and producer

• 1935 » Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895)
• 1947 » Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1957 » Dorothy L. Sayers, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1962 » Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1964 » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896)

• 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.
• May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
• July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
• November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.
• December 8 » The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.

The temperature on December 17, 1955 was between 1.3 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.