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• Hillegien Bouland († 2000)
• Bertha Anna Hemelrijk, Oudeschild (Texel, NH) († 2024)
• Sandra Diane Evans, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1956)
• Roy Lubeek, Curacao († 2011)
• yves karel victorine van havermaet, Antwerpen († 2007)
• Gerda van den Hoek, Apeldoorn († 1955)
• OG van Schie, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Fredericus Martinus Franciscus Snijder, Breda († 2013)
• Gerda van den Hoek, Apeldoorn († 1955)
• Cor Stolwijk, Weert, Limburg, Nederland († 1990)

• Berthe Lagny (65), Ghent, Belgium
• Adrianus Cornelis Alting (79), Loenersloot
• Adele Goux (63), Bassigney (F)
• Antonius Henricus van Hensbergen (5), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Catharina van Dongen (37)
• Annechien Jans SCHULTINGA (88), Leens Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Wagendrever (53), Amersfoort
• Anna Margaretha Pex (64), Maastricht
• Antoni Hofman (75), Zutphen
• Akke Tilma (74), Niehove, gem. Oldehove, Groningen, Nederland

• 1953 » Freddie Aguilar, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 » Gustavo Benítez, Paraguayan footballer and manager
• 1953 » John Beilein, American basketball player and coach
• 1954 » Cliff Martinez, American drummer and songwriter
• 1954 » Frank Walker, Australian journalist and author
• 1955 » Mike Heath, American baseball player and manager
• 1956 » David Wiesner, American author and illustrator
• 1956 » Héctor Rebaque, Mexican race car driver
• 1956 » Mao Daichi, Japanese actress
• 1956 » Vinnie Colaiuta, American drummer

• 1941 » Banjo Paterson, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1875)
• 1946 » George Arliss, English actor and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1948 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
• 1952 » Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (b. 1877)
• 1954 » Hossein Sami'i, Iranian politician, diplomat, writer and poet (b. 1876)
• 1955 » Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
• 1957 » Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon and author (b. 1890)
• 1962 » Jacques Ibert, French-Swiss composer (b. 1890)
• 1967 » Leon Leonwood Bean, American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872)

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. 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.
• April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
• April 15 » McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
• April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
• July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
• August 17 » Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people.
• December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

The temperature on February 5, 1955 was between 3.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.