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• Joannes Antonius Buijsman, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 1960)
• Frederik Christiaan (Fred) KUIJKEN, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Anna Maria (Annemiek) HOREMAN, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1992)
• James Earl Meerdink († 1998)
• Glenny Clignett († 1962)
• William Earl Regnerus, Holly Oakland County Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Agnes Broekhuis, Deventer († 2011)
• Josée Marie Christine Vanhentenrijck, Sint-Truiden, België († 1977)
• Agnes Broekhuis, Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2011)
• Cornelis Van der Giessen, Ridderkerk († 2016)

• Aldegonda Jacoba Jacobs (57), Grubbenvorst,, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriaan Petrus Johannes van der Pol (68), rotterdam
• Anna Maria Reijmer (75), Groesbeek
• Antonie DOMMERHOLT (58), Bergen op Zoom
• Armagy R. Soles Jr (73), Horry County,South Carolina
• Antonia van Mil (82), Hedel
• Catharina Jantina Huizinga (76), Zuidhorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Savelkoul (63), Geleen, Provincie Limburg, Nederland
• Anders Johan Svanbäck (83), Haren
• Antonie Dommerholt (58), Bergen op Zoom,Noord-Brabant,Nederland

• 1953 » Alex Van Halen, Dutch-American drummer
• 1953 » Billy Burnette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1954 » David Keith, American actor and director
• 1954 » John Michael Talbot, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 » Pam Arciero, American puppeteer and voice actress
• 1955 » Keith Osgood, English footballer
• 1955 » Mladen Markač, Croatian general
• 1955 » Stephen Furst, American actor and director († 2017)
• 1956 » Jeff Wincott, Canadian actor and martial artist
• 1957 » Bill Cowher, American football player and coach

• 1945 » Bernhard Rust, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Josef Terboven, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Rediess, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (b. 1858)
• 1948 » U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician and immunologist (b. 1865)
• 1952 » William Fox, Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (b. 1879)
• 1959 » John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
• 1960 » J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)

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.
• May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
• September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
• September 20 » The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
• October 1 » The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
• October 29 » The Soviet battleshipNovorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.

The temperature on May 8, 1955 was between 3.9 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.