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• Willem Rijsdijk, Zutphen († 1999)
• Wim KEMPER, Blesdijke (Friesland) (NL) († 1964)
• Abraham Alexander Eijgenraam, Delft († 1952)
• Onno Erik Slotboom († 2005)
• Natimorto gemeo II Monteacuti, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 1952)
• Alexander Casemier Quack, Johannesburg, Transvaal, R.S.A. († 2004)
• Cornelia Koster, Tegelen († 2016)
• Johannes Petrus (Peter) Nonneman († 1999)
• Natimorto gemeo I Monteacuti, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 1952)
• Nico van Kruisbergen, Druten († 2007)

• "Guy" Raoul Joseph Marie de Brach (50), château des Moulières, Saint-Pompain, Deux-Sèvres, France
• Caroline Christine MICHELSON (77), Neenah
• Albertus Hofman (61), Utrecht
• Abel Ebens (70), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Joseph Cobbaert (36), Pamel
• Aukje van Kammen (52), Twijzelerheide, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Berentdina Suzanna Evers (76), Almelo
• Antje Visser (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Bouwman (67), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Anthonia Wiegman (31), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1951 » Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1951 » Pam Dawber, American actress and producer
• 1951 » Terry McMillan, American author and screenwriter
• 1952 » Allen Ripley, American baseball player († 2014)
• 1952 » Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese soldier and author
• 1952 » Chuck Lorre, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 » Jerry Royster, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1952 » Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer and photographer
• 1952 » Paul Geroski, American-English economist and academic († 2005)
• 1952 » Roy Dias, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach

• 1941 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1956 » Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 » Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
• 1961 » Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Henry Travers, Irish-American actor (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)

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. Aaltje
14. Marie
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.
• February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
• April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
• April 28 » The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
• June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
• August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.

The temperature on October 18, 1952 was between -1.0 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.