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• Anthonia Johanna Maria Hoogervorst, 's-Gravenhage († 1955)
• Hendrik (Henk) Westerveld, Utrecht († 1992)
• John Moore Douglass († 2005)
• Benjamin Matthys Janse van Rensburg, Potgietersrus, South Africa († 2007)
• Johannes Bouke Bolt († 1991)
• Loes Zonneveld, Castricum († 2000)
• Yvonne Beuk, Dordrecht († 2007)
• Debra Garland, Klamath Falls († 2004)
• Wilhelmus Bernardus Jozef Hazelhof, Huissen († 2013)
• Johannes Franciscus de Vet, Arkona, Ontario (Canada) († 1973)

• Antje van der Plaat (77), Den Helder
• Alexandrina Francina Grunberg (84), Paramaribo, Suriname
• Anna Christina Meijer (69)
• Aleidius Cornelis Broekman (79), Soest
• Annie Simons (69), Newlyn, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
• Belsario José Pereira (65), São Joaquim, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Adriaan Jongkind (63), Papendrecht
• Atje ten Cate (61), Groningen
• Agenor de Araújo Cintra (68), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aaltje Nieboer (84), Veendam

• 1952 » Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician († 2018)
• 1952 » Tony Brise, English race car driver († 1975)
• 1953 » Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian banker and politician, 4th President of Burundi († 1993)
• 1953 » Rosemary Ashe, British actress and singer
• 1954 » Donald Brown, American pianist and educator
• 1955 » John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice, Northern Irish psychiatrist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
• 1955 » Reba McEntire, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1956 » Susan Ershler, American mountaineer and author
• 1957 » Harvey Glance, American sprinter and coach
• 1958 » Edesio Alejandro, Cuban composer

• 1943 » Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (b. 1889)
• 1953 » Jim Thorpe, American football player and coach (b. 1887)
• 1958 » W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1873)
• 1962 » Hugo Wast, Argentinian author and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1963 » Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (b. 1876)
• 1965 » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1965 » Jack Hoxie, American actor (b. 1885)

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.
• February 18 » Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
• April 1 » The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
• May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
• July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
• September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
• November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.

The temperature on March 28, 1955 was between -2.3 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.