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• Johan Pieter van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Sjaak Smit, Texel († 2012)
• Tom M de Vries, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2019)
• NN van den Brink, Zeist {UT} († 1955)
• Connie Taylor, Beechy Ridge, Indore, Clay († 2007)
• Levenloos Mantel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Frederick Jason Mast, Barrhead, Alberta, Canada († 1975)
• Johannes Bernardus Leonardus Lievens, Oosterhout
• Hendrika Martina de Winter, Amsterdam († 2006)
• Janine Vreugdenhil, Maasland, Nederland († 1982)

• Annie J Long **** (75), Columbus, North Carolina, United States
• Chris de Groot (87), George, Lyon Co., IA
• Anna Maria Frederica Hoendervangers (66), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Joseph Gos (71), Hendrieken, België
• Berendina Kamerman (86), Holten
• Annigje Peggeman (72), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aaltje Snoek (49)
• Anna Catharina (Gerardina) de Bont (81), Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Aartje Lieftink (80), Utrecht
• Anna Margaret Thomas (93), Vandergrift, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1952 » Eva Dillner, Swedish author
• 1953 » Gwen Lister, South African-Namibian journalist, publisher, and activist
• 1954 » Gary Roenicke, American baseball player and scout
• 1954 » Hanif Kureishi, English author and playwright
• 1955 » Juha Tiainen, Finnish hammer thrower († 2003)
• 1955 » Miyuki Kawanaka, Japanese singer
• 1956 » Adam Thorpe, French-English author, poet, and playwright
• 1956 » Klaus Allofs, German footballer and manager
• 1956 » Krystian Zimerman, Polish virtuoso pianist
• 1957 » Raquel Argandoña, Chilean model, actress, and politician

• 1946 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)
• 1951 » Abanindranath Tagore, Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
• 1951 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1953 » William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (b. 1886)
• 1961 » Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer and educator (b. 1905)
• 1964 » V. Veerasingam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)

• 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 8 » The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000km) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
• 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.
• August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
• October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.
• December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
• December 8 » The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.

The temperature on December 5, 1955 was between 1.4 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.