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• Sjoerd Kort, Drachten, Nederland († 2018)
• Cornelis Michiel Houtman, Schiedam († 2007)
• Hieronymus Jean Maria Merckx, Bornem († 2005)
• Victor Edmund Pipher († 1992)
• Gwendolyn Beth Jansen, Le Mars-Iowa (USA) († 2017)
• Johannes Theodorus Arnoldus Maria Peerenboom, Uden,Gemeente Uden,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1955)
• Robert Schwitters
• Jacob Bert (Jaap) Haverkamp, Apeldoorn († 2018)
• Eddy Gino LOUAGIE, Roeselare († 2006)
• Maria Francisca Timmermans, Nijmegen († 2009)

• Abraham Jans Visser (84), ,, St. Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Van Beek (81), Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Albertus Chritoffel Johannes Ribbers (76), Nijmegen (Gelderland)
• Alice Schook (74), Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, US
• Alberdina Bartha Wielders (87), Tiel (GL)
• anna neunaber (65), leeuwarden
• Albertus van Engelenburg (70), Ede-Gelderland-Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Anthonia Hanselaar (71), Utrecht
• * Cornelus Hubertus Lukassen (71), Tilburg
• Albertus Christoffel Johannes Ribbers (76), Nijmegen (Gelderland)

• 1951 » Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
• 1951 » Phil Ehart, American rock drummer and songwriter
• 1952 » Jenny Shipley, New Zealand educator and politician, 36th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1952 » Thomas Silverstein, American prisoner, founder and former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang († 2019)
• 1955 » Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak politician, Prime Minister of Slovakia
• 1957 » Don Davis, American composer and conductor
• 1958 » Tomasz Pacyński, Polish journalist and author († 2005)
• 1959 » Christian Schreier, German footballer and manager
• 1959 » Lawrence Taylor, American football player and sportscaster
• 1960 » Siobhan Dowd, English author and activist († 2007)

• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (b. 1926)
• 1970 » Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1908)

• 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.
• April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
• April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
• June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
• November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.

The temperature on February 4, 1955 was between 2.8 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.