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• Agnes Susanna Maathuis, Geesteren,, Overijssel, Nederland († 2007)
• Norma Anne Schubert, Luverne, Rock County, Minnesota († 2022)
• Rolland Raleigh Bertrand, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Engelina Wijnand, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Gray Richard Green († 1977)
• Paul Caems († 1995)
• Norma Jean Carter ****, Charleston, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Dirk CASTELEIN, Tielt († 2015)
• Gemma Lucia Johanna Corbeij, Linne († 2017)
• Christina Maria Smit († 1984)

• Anthonia Johanna Kuitenbrouwer (64), Vlissingen
• Alice Smith (82), Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Antoon Antonius Helmer (89), Moergestel, Nederland
• Abraham Alblas (80), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Grotegeers (85), Lorup, Emsland, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Archie Leon STEARNS (76), Lincoln Lancaster County Nebraska U.S.A
• Anna Brand (75), Ter-Apel, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Aartje Hardeman (80), Driebergen
• Aaltje van Boven (75), Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aartje Hardeman (80), Driebergen-Rijsenburg

• 1951 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani soldier and pilot († 1971)
• 1952 » Karin Büttner-Janz, German gymnast and physician
• 1952 » Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player († 1991)
• 1954 » Lou Ann Barton, American blues singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Miki Berkovich, Israeli basketball player
• 1954 » Rene Russo, American actress
• 1955 » Mo Yan, Chinese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 » Richard Karn, American actor and game show host
• 1957 » Loreena McKennitt, Canadian singer-songwriter, accordion player, and pianist
• 1959 » Aryeh Deri, Moroccan-Israeli rabbi and politician, Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs

• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
• 1946 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1972 » Friday Hassler, American race car driver (b. 1935)

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. Gerardus

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.
• 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.
• April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
• 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.
• 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 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
• August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.

The temperature on February 17, 1955 was between -5.1 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.