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• Christine Windels, Kortrijk († 1978)
• X van Gerven, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Cornelia Timmermans, Riel († 2006)
• Steve Allan Montgomery, Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa († 2006)
• Petronella Antonia Johanna Maria van den Ouweland, Breda († 1955)
• Wilhelmina Leonarda den Braber, Rotterdam († 1955)
• Gary Wayne Custer, Windber Hospital, Windber, Somerset County, Pennsylvania († 1955)
• Dale Allen Lasater, Harlingen Texas (USA) († 1965)
• Taeke van Houten, Buitenpost (Bûtenpost), Achtkarspelen, Fryslân, Nederland († 1973)
• Roberto Hoogma, Buenos Aires (Arg) († 2000)

• Antonia Dhert (84), Wachtebeke (België)
• Antonius Meulenbroek (47), Deventer
• anna catharina schoen (82), amsterdam
• Anthonie van Ravenhorst (41), Barneveld
• Aukje Gurbes Kuipers (85), Drachten,, Friesland, Nederland
• Adella Mogendorff (73), Brussel, België
• Anna Maria Louwers (81), Veldhoven, Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Maria Weijters (62), Tilburg
• Adriana van den Burg (67), 's-Gravenzande (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aukje Kuipers (85), Drachten

• 1950 » Ali Haydar Konca, Turkish politician, 4th Turkish Minister of European Union Affairs
• 1950 » Mike Campbell, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1951 » Sonny Landreth, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1952 » Owoye Andrew Azazi, Nigerian general († 2012)
• 1954 » Chuck Dukowski, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1956 » Exene Cervenka, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 » Gilbert Hernandez, American author and illustrator
• 1957 » Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Saudi Arabian businessman († 2007)
• 1958 » Eleanor Laing, Scottish lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1958 » Luther Blissett, Jamaican-English footballer and manager

• 1940 » Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880)
• 1957 » Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
• 1958 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

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. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
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.
• February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
• May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
• July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
• December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
• December 8 » The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.

The temperature on February 1, 1955 was between 4.9 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.