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• Marcia Elaine de Jong, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2016)
• Koop Koekoek († 1971)
• Gloria M Buss, Brighton, Sussex († 1994)
• Glenn Wendell Rodgers, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• N.N. Oomen, Gilze en Rijen († 1955)
• Jean Aendekerk
• Barbara Ann Brinkman, Greene, Butler County, Iowa († 2018)
• Philippa Mensink († 2008)
• Peter Johan Kooiman, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Hendrik Martinus van Zurk, Amsterdam († 2016)

• Abraham Johannesz Visser (61), Woudsend, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia M. Klarenbeek (53), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Martinus van Nieuwenhoven (73), Dortrecht
• Antoinette Maria Johanna NOLLET (80), Duisburg Laar (D)
• Aartje Verploegh (85)
• Anna (Anneke) Brokke (54)
• Arendina Hulst (84), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cecil Shierlaw Elmsly (76), Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand
• * Willem Vonk (77), Giessen-Nieuwkerk
• Anna de Vos (79), Rhoon, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

• 1953 » José Bové, French farmer and politician
• 1953 » Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton, English politician
• 1954 » John Dyson, Australian cricketer
• 1954 » Johnny Neel, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1955 » Duncan Steel, English-Australian astronomer and author
• 1955 » Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower
• 1956 » Arthur Porter, Canadian physician and academic († 2015)
• 1956 » Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American bass player and bandleader
• 1956 » Joe Montana, American football player and sportscaster
• 1956 » Simon Plouffe, Canadian mathematician and academic

• 1936 » Robert E. Howard, American author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1937 » R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (b. 1895)
• 1941 » Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
• 1955 » Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
• 1963 » Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)
• 1965 » José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)

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. Gerardus

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.
• March 2 » Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
• May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• 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 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
• September 20 » The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
• December 14 » Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.

The temperature on June 11, 1955 was between 2.9 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.