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• E.J.M. Kerkvliet († 2019)
• 'n Levenloos geboren kind van Lek, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1952)
• Anca Grotens († 2010)
• Bruno Dutreix († 2020)
• Maria Elisabeth Cornelia Kruijssen, Tilburg († 1952)
• Anita Fay de Jong († 1985)
• Hendrik (Henk) de Roode, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2018)
• John Kent Mumaw, Holton, Jackson County, Kansas, VS († 1989)
• Doodgeboren Lek, Ter Aar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1952)
• Berendina van Bijsteren, Ermelo († 2003)

• Albertino de Meira Leite (71)
• Abraham van der Welle (89), Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Geertruida Louise Bloem, Haarlem
• Anna Lugtenborg (75), Adorp, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie van Tilborg (87), Eethen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bregtje Roozendaal (85), Enkhuizen
• Akke Tammes Vellinga (80), Murmerwoude
• Antonius Johannes Peters (5), Huissen
• Barbera Vos, de (85), Heinenoord
• Arlette Dewitte (3), Hondschoote (FR-VL) Noord Frankrijk

• 1950 » Osamu Kido, Japanese wrestler
• 1951 » Ken Bruce, Scottish radio host
• 1951 » Vangelis Alexandris, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1952 » Carol Ann Susi, American actress († 2014)
• 1952 » John Cornyn, American lawyer and politician, 49th Attorney General of Texas
• 1952 » Park Geun-hye, South Korean politician, 11th President of South Korea
• 1952 » Ralph Merkle, American computer scientist and academic
• 1952 » Rick Dufay, French-American guitarist and songwriter
• 1953 » Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
• 1953 » Jerry Sisk, Jr., American gemologist, co-founded Jewelry Television († 2013)

• 1945 » Alfred Delp, German priest and philosopher (b. 1907)
• 1948 » Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist (b. 1894)
• 1948 » Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician and academic (b. 1873)
• 1952 » Callistratus of Georgia, Georgian patriarch (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1956 » Charley Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
• 1956 » Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
• 1956 » Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1890)

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.
• February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
• April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
• 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.
• December 20 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
• December 30 » An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.

The temperature on February 2, 1952 was between -0.8 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.