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• Jude Alan Moser († 1955)
• Gloria Estelle Leonora Newton, Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius
• Christina Susan de Jong Cleyndert, London, South East England, Groot Brittanië
• Albertus Johannes van Hemel, Putten († 2004)
• Anton Schermer, Castricum
• Eddy Louis Dupont, Hasselt, België († 1989)
• Bernard, Johannesz Harms, Alkmaar († 2017)
• Richard Dale Todd ?****, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Rudy Johny CASTELEIN, Roeselare († 1987)
• Ria Aarts, Gerwen († 1959)

• Alida Margaretha Zeeuw van der Laan (66), Baarn
• Adriaantje van Driel (90), Alblasserdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aldigonda Josepha Baggen (70), Heerlen
• Catharina Beuckens (80), Sloten
• Cornelia Ardon (65)
• Adriaan de Koeijer (85), Zaamslag
• Christiaan Hendrik Johan Allaart (55), Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Maria Florida van den Berg (57), Leerdam
• Antonius Eliza Marie Joseph (Ton, Tonny) HOLDERT (83), Genzano di Roma, Lazio, Italy
• Allen Craton Beaver (77), Los Angeles County, California, United States of America

• 1952 » Marc Esposito, French director and screenwriter
• 1952 » Richard Egielski, American author and illustrator
• 1952 » Stewart Copeland, American drummer and songwriter
• 1953 » Douglas J. Feith, American lawyer and politician, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• 1954 » Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
• 1955 » Saw Swee Leong, Malaysian badminton player
• 1955 » Susan Wheeler, American poet and academic
• 1956 » Tony Kushner, American playwright and screenwriter
• 1957 » Alexandra Marinina, Ukrainian-Russian colonel and author
• 1957 » Faye Grant, American actress

• 1939 » Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1953 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (b. 1888)
• 1960 » Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1960 » John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Boris Artzybasheff, Ukrainian-American illustrator (b.1899)
• 1969 » James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (b. 1930)
• 1981 » Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)

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 1 » The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
• April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
• 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.
• September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
• December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.

The temperature on July 16, 1955 was between 17.0 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.