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• Laura Luise Laue († 2015)
• Hendrikus Johannes van den Hengel, Harderwijk, Gld, NL († 2023)
• Michael Lloyd HENDERSON († 1955)
• Martina Elise Valstar, Sittard († 1996)
• Franke Frankema, Lemsterland († 2011)
• Martina Elise Valstar, Sittard († 1996)
• Egbert Jan Kooiman, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Paul Kazimierz SZAJNA, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 2012)
• Ineke Stevens, Nijmegen († 1955)
• Franciscus Willem Johannes , ALBERS, 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)

• Cornelis Leonardus de Kloe (67), Hilversum
• Anna Maria Francina van Sambeek (59), Wanroij
• Anna Maria van Sambeek (75), Wanroij
• Adrianus Cornelis van Amersfoort (88), Wageningen (Gelderland)
• Alfred KIEZEBRINK (61), 'S Gravenhage
• Camillus August Cammaert (74), Nijmegen
• Bernardus van Kampen (84), Oude Tonge
• Achilles Ludovicus Ballyn (77), Oostnieuwkerke
• Alfred Ernest Dormal (70), Huccorgne
• Bartholomeus Willem van 't RIET (71), Abbenes

• 1952 » Narada Michael Walden, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
• 1953 » James Russo, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 » Michael Moore, American director, producer, and activist
• 1954 » Stephen Dalton, English air marshal
• 1955 » Judy Davis, Australian actress
• 1955 » Tony Miles, English chess player († 2001)
• 1955 » Urmas Ott, Estonian journalist and author († 2008)
• 1957 » Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian († 2014)
• 1957 » Neville Brody, English graphic designer, typographer, and art director
• 1958 » Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic composer and producer

• 1936 » Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author (b. 1889)
• 1951 » Charles G. Dawes, American banker and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Jules Berry, French actor and director (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Bak Jungyang, Korean politician
• 1965 » George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891)
• 1966 » George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1983 » Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)
• 1984 » Red Garland, American pianist (b. 1923)
• 1985 » Sam Ervin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1896)

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 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
• July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
• October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.
• 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.
• December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.

The temperature on April 23, 1955 was between 3.3 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.