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• Jennie Bremer († 2017)
• Hendrikus Dasselaar, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1975)
• Cora Jean Verkaik, Chatham, Ontario, Canada
• Hein Poeder, Emmen Drenthe Nederland
• Lisa Sue Edelsberg († 2014)
• Gerrit Jan Hallink († 1962)
• Hendrik Trinks, De Pol (Steenwijkerwold) († 2011)
• Helga Maria Theresia Dykshoorn, Netherlands († 2011)
• Jentje BREMER, Emmen († 2017)
• Betsie Kempermann, Hoensbroek,, Limburg, Nederland († 1996)

• Carolina Margaretha van Leeuwen (92), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aalt van de Geest (80), Arnhem
• Adrianus Kooijman (60), Rotterdam
• Carolina van der Waal (71), Rotterdam
• Charles Louis Baier (102), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Louise PRUSSIA (82), St Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Kiers (93), Ermelo,Gelderland,Niederlande
• Alida ten Haaft (81), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Carolus SWAGERMAN (54), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Oskam (77), Heemstede

• 1949 » Gilles Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 » András Adorján, Hungarian chess player and author
• 1950 » Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
• 1950 » Sandra Morgen, American anthropologist and academic († 2016)
• 1953 » Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer († 2014)
• 1955 » Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter
• 1955 » Svetozar Marović, President of Serbia and Montenegro
• 1957 » Alan Duncan, English businessman and politician, former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
• 1959 » Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator
• 1961 » Ron Brown, American sprinter and football player

• 1935 » Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman and diplomat, founded Prince Matchabelli perfume (b. 1885)
• 1939 » Ioannis Tsangaridis, Greek general (b. 1887)
• 1944 » Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Frank Findlay, New Zealand banker and politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1950 » Robert Natus, Estonian architect (b. 1890)
• 1952 » Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver and actor (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1970 » Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet Commander during the Winter War and the Eastern Front of World War II (b. 1894)

• 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.
• January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
• June 7 » Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
• June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
• November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.
• December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

The temperature on March 31, 1955 was between -4.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.