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• Joore, Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ido Westerink, Harderwijk († 2013)
• jan stoffel leeuwis, wageningen (gelderland) nederland († 1956)
• Anthonie van Maurik, Amsterdam († 1993)
• Petra Hoskens, Bladel en Netersel († 1995)
• Gerardus Albertus Hendrikus Ten Velde († 2010)
• Roxanne J. Taormina, Cook, Illinois, United States († 2005)
• Jurjen Tap († 1973)
• Richard Eugene Renfro, La Porte, Indiana († 2011)
• Levensloos Neven, Alken, België († 1955)

• Beânt Durks Haarsma (79)
• Arie Noordergraaf (86), Capelle aan de IJssel
• Alberdina Poppema (70), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aleida Johanna Ebbers (64), Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus Franciscus HAGEBOLS (77), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• anna jacoba wilhelmina korting (77), etten-leur, noord-brabant, nederland
• Alida Christina van Commenee (61), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia BUIS (43), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Diederikus Grimme (77), Weesp, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Antonius Josephus Hendrikus Simonis (79), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1953 » Carl Jackson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1954 » Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach († 2007)
• 1954 » Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician († 1996)
• 1954 » Steven Pinker, Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author
• 1954 » Takao Doi, Japanese engineer and astronaut
• 1954 » Tommy Tuberville, American football player and coach
• 1955 » Keith Morris, American singer-songwriter
• 1955 » Paul Butler, English bishop
• 1956 » Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
• 1956 » Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player and politician

• 1949 » Frank Morgan, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1951 » Gelett Burgess, American author and poet (b. 1866)
• 1952 » Frances Alda, New Zealand-Australian soprano and actress (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
• 1956 » Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1873)
• 1959 » Benjamin Péret, French poet and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1961 » Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Therese Neumann, German mystic (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Clive Bell, English philosopher and critic (b. 1881)

• 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.
• May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
• June 11 » Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
• October 1 » The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
• 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.

The temperature on September 18, 1955 was between 6.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.