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• Willemien Oosterveld († 1989)
• Petronella Aloysia Maria (Wies) SNIJDERS, Mill († 2009)
• René André Verheyen, Den Haag († 2016)
• Yvonne Smead, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Catharina Jeannette Barbara Maria Rubbens, Oudenbosch († 1975)
• Arie van der WAAL, Rotterdam († 1955)
• Johanna Theodora Scholten, Slagharen (Hardenberg) († 1955)
• Tjebbe van der Laan, Alteveer Stadskanaal Groningen Nederland
• Livinus (Liévin) Pasteels, Mechelen, België († 1955)
• Marijke Jansen († 1995)

• Anne Marie Leonia Renson (82), Sint-Truiden, België
• Arie van der Waal (0), Rotterdam
• Antonia Wilhelmina Klein Beernink (70), Deventer
• Bernardo Pericás Moya (72)
• Barbara Herzog (92), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Jan Lemmersma (77), Amsterdam
• Arie Oosterlee (64), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Wilhelmina Kleinbeernink (70), Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Bertina BERGHMANS (80), Assent Belgie
• Byron Kent Ferguson (29), Sunnyside, Carbon County, Utah

• 1952 » Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand
• 1954 » Gerd Faltings, German mathematician and academic
• 1954 » Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela († 2013)
• 1954 » Mikey Sheehy, Irish footballer
• 1954 » Steve Morse, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 » Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian skier
• 1956 » John Feinstein, American journalist and author
• 1956 » Robert Swan, English explorer
• 1958 » Michael Hitchcock, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist († 1981)

• 1942 » Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1946 » Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church (b. 1910)
• 1957 » Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876)
• 1965 » Attallah Suheimat, Jordanian politician (b. 1875)
• 1965 » Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894)
• 1967 » Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1969 » Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (b. 1882)

• 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 15 » McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
• May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
• June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
• September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
• 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.
• December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

The temperature on July 28, 1955 was between 15.6 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.