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• Jenneke van de Kraats († 1953)
• Cornelia Willemina Naerebout, Vlissingen († 1998)
• Herman Peter van Overdam († 2000)
• Kornelis Tichelaar, Leeuwarden († 2005)
• N.N. Christ, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1952)
• Chet DALEBOUT, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah († 1952)
• Carole M. Willadsen, Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Klaas KEIJZER († 1999)
• Johannis Cornelis Bout, Tholen († 2006)
• Petrus Hermanus Smeltink, Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 2008)

• Andreas Godefridus van Berkel (70)
• Bernardus Harmannus Ronde (76), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Weernekers (51), Ruurlo
• Alida M Groenewoud (75), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Bernardus Hendrikus Johannes Strötbaum (77), Rotterdam
• Arnoldus Egberts (82), Nieuwveen
• Aartje Endendijk (58), Utrecht
• Antje Peters (73), Elst (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland
• Andreas Godefridus van Berkel (70), Tilburg
• Antonie Donker (72), Gameren, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1950 » Rebecca Goldstein, American philosopher and author
• 1951 » Debbie Friedman, American singer-songwriter of Jewish melodies († 2011)
• 1951 » Ed "Too Tall" Jones, American football player and boxer
• 1951 » Eddie Dibbs, American tennis player
• 1951 » Patricia Richardson, American actress
• 1952 » Brad Whitford, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1953 » Kenny Bee, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1953 » Satoru Nakajima, Japanese race car driver
• 1954 » Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic († 1989)
• 1954 » Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian captain and politician, 3rd President of Ukraine

• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

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. Dirk
16. Paul

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 15 » King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
• 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.
• February 21 » The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
• May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
• November 14 » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.
• November 25 » Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends with Chinese victory, American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".

The temperature on February 23, 1952 was between -2.5 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.