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• Jan Anita de Vries, Sioux County, Iowa († 1955)
• Everhardus Laurentius Gerardus Albertusen Konter, Vollenhove († 2024)
• Laurent Jozef van der VEKEN, xx († 1995)
• Adriana Cornelia Vermeulen, Utrecht († 2022)
• José Ottoni de Carvalho, São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brasil († 1955)
• Elisabeth Maria Henriette Altorf, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Rene Hubertus Alphonsus Veugelers, Den Haag († 1970)
• Wijbrand Maria Hyacinthus van der Ploeg, Zoeterwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Morris David Lang, Greenwood, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Ariepieter de Gunst, Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)

• Angelie Jacqueline Maria Weijtens (59), Halsteren
• Anje Poel (58), Usquert (Gr., NL)
• Aaltje Bouman (86), Heerde
• Anje Poel (58), Usquert (gem. Het Hogeland)
• Adam Adams (72), Kropswolde (Hoogezand )
• Adriaan LIEBRECHTS (85), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Boot (87), Renesse, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje Wilhelmina Morien (58), Bloemendaal, Noord Holland
• Adolf Stanislaus SCHEEFFER (85), Deventer
• Antonis Wilhelmus (Anton) Tammerijn (57), 's Gravenhage

• 1953 » Billy Hayes, English union leader
• 1953 » Sandy Nairne, English historian and curator
• 1954 » Greg Ginn, American punk rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (Black Flag)
• 1954 » Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan († 2013)
• 1954 » Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician
• 1955 » Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer
• 1955 » José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1955 » Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
• 1956 » Jonathan Potter, English psychologist, sociolinguist, and academic
• 1956 » Udo Bullmann, German politician

• 1945 » Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
• 1951 » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
• 1951 » Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
• 1956 » Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (b. 1912)
• 1965 » Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 » Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (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. 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.
• April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

The temperature on June 8, 1955 was between 10.5 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.