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• Peter Joan (Peter) Kirkels, Eindhoven
• NN Schuiring, Groningen (Groningen) († 1955)
• Ymkje Broers Muntendam, Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 2016)
• Roelof Dieters, Den Haag, Huize Margaretha
• Henry Arthur Lawyer, unbekannt († 1976)
• Elizabeth (Ellie) van der Horst, amsterdam, Nederland († 2022)
• Dougas Lowell Krukow, Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa († 2015)
• Cornelis Johannes Maria Noordermeer, Sassenheim († 2012)
• Paul Kroes († 1969)
• Anthony William Robert Castiau († 2009)

• Aart Aaldert Antonie van Wijk (86), Transvaal
• Alexander Albert Holle (83)
• Agatha_Hendrika Hupje (93), Den Haag
• Adrianus Nicolaas van Poppel (84), Tilburg, Nederland
• Alphonsus Josephus Boonen‏ (72), Geel, België
• Cornelia Johanna Pols (73), Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Vos (71), Zwolle
• Arnoldus Leonardus Bolder (68), 's-Gravenhage
• Adeline De Rouck (58), Haaltert, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adrianus Nicolaas van Poppel (84), Tilburg

• 1953 » Gerry Bertier, American football player († 1981)
• 1953 » Peter Horton, American actor and director
• 1954 » Al Roker, American news anchor, television personality, and author
• 1954 » Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach
• 1954 » Tawn Mastrey, American radio host and producer († 2007)
• 1955 » Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and author
• 1955 » Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• 1956 » Alvin Greenidge, Barbadian cricketer
• 1956 » Desmond Swayne, English soldier and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
• 1956 » Joan Allen, American actress

• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1979 » Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)

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. Jacobus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
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 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
• May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
• June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
• December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
• 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 August 20, 1955 was between 13.0 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.