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• Wilhelmus Gerardus Joseph Janssen, Ottawa, ON (Canada) († 2006)
• Marianne Philippine de BONHOME, Etterbeek (Brussels Gewest) (B) († 1955)
• Susan Elaine Winters, Columbus Fra, Ohio († 2007)
• Martin Hemelop, Zeist
• Herbert Franklin Aaron, Greenville, Mississippi († 2019)
• Piet van der Steen, IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Debra S. Pratt, Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Machiel Adrianus Tuns, Oude Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Pieter Jacob Arie van der Steen, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Corrie Appel, Spanbroek († 2003)

• Adrianus Henricus Ris (78), Schiedam, Nederland
• Alice Laura Groff (78), San Bernardino, California
• Bartus de Beer (68), Soest
• Anna Maartens Hoek (75), Noordwijk
• Alexander Van Cleef (64), R.K Ziekenhuis (de goddelijke voorzienigheid) te Sittard
• Aloys Marquardt (56), Malchin, Mecklenburg
• Adriana Van OOSTENDE (82), Rotterdam
• Alma Lena Sidell **** (68), Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, United States
• Anna Maria Emelia Arnoldine de Jonge van Zwijnsbergen (97), Helmond,Gemeente Helmond,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Anna Hoek (75), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1953 » James "J.T." Taylor, American R&B singer-songwriter
• 1953 » Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer, and actress
• 1954 » George Galloway, Scottish-English politician and broadcaster
• 1954 » James Cameron, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 » James Reilly, Irish surgeon and politician, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
• 1956 » Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian soldier and politician († 2014)
• 1957 » Laura Innes, American actress and director
• 1957 » R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra († 2015)
• 1958 » Angela Bassett, American actress
• 1958 » Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director

• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)

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. Marianne
13. Margaretha
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.
• May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
• June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
• July 17 » Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
• July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
• December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

The temperature on August 16, 1955 was between 13.2 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.