About the day » Wednesday August 20, 1952Calender converter

• Lorraine Sue Gritter, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Marleen Haezebrouck
• Gezinus Timmer, Gasselternijveen Gasselte AA en Hunze Drenthe Nederland († 2019)
• Bertha van Beelen, Katwijk († 1993)
• Joyce Marie Vorwald, Garnavillo, Clayton County, Iowa († 2004)
• Johanna Christina Maria van den Ende († 2020)
• Manuel C. Garcia, Allende, Coahuila Mexico († 2014)
• Geesje Doornbos, Meppel († 2021)
• Doodgeboren kind Witlox, Vught († 1952)
• Shirley Ann Rozenboom, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2013)

• EVERT CORNELIS ZEGERS (0), Barneveld
• Bernard Hermann Franz Schomaker (84), Rühlertwist, Twist
• Elzéar Lauzon (62)
• Aaltje Westland (70), Huizen
• Calis, Hilversum
• CATHARINA AGATHA VAN DER WOUDE (87), ROTTERDAM
• Albertha Luitjens (52), Groningen
• Bartus Teunis Deenik (64), Naarden
• Adriaan Besters (80), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirkje van Leeuwen (77), De Bilt

• 1951 » DeForest Soaries, American minister and politician, 30th Secretary of State of New Jersey
• 1952 » Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2010)
• 1952 » John Emburey, English cricketer and coach
• 1952 » John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Ric Menello, American director and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1953 » Gerry Bertier, American football player († 1981)
• 1953 » Jim Trenton, American radio host and actor
• 1953 » Leroy Burgess, American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer
• 1953 » Mike Jackson, American politician
• 1953 » Peter Horton, American actor and director

• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 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)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Gerrit
8. Robert
9. Pieter
10. Petrus
11. Jacobus
12. Gerardus
13. Adrianus
14. John
15. Paul
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Margaretha
12. Mary
13. Marie
14. Aaltje
15. Geertruida
16. Linda

• 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 March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• 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 10.3 million citizens.
• April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
• July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
• August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
• September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
• November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
• November 14 » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.

The temperature on August 20, 1952 was between 11.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.