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• NN Eggelen van, Den Bosch († 1952)
• Bertha Jean Dolieslager, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2021)
• Jan Kors († 2002)
• Johannes Aggelen van († 1953)
• Harmannus Henderikus Immink, Zwartemeer, Drenthe, Nederland († 1952)
• Willibrord Maria Kraan († 1953)
• Laurina Waltrie Maria van der Weegen, Halsteren († 1961)
• Schollen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Henk Groenendaal († 2016)
• Mathilde Evelyn Broek van den, Amsterdam

• Adrianus Cornelis van Gerwen
• Berendina Willemina Zwienenbarg (69), Deventer
• Aaltje Oosterhoff (78), Aduard (gem. Westerkwartier)
• Aaltje Nieboer (72), Groningen
• (69), Houtave
• Versteegen (0), Venray (levenloos geboren zoon/dochter)
• Baukje Schokker (75), Ermelo
• Anna J. Steeman (45), Beverwijk
• Agnes Maria Alkemade (64), Noordwijk
• Benjamin Octavious Turnbow (67), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

• 1950 » Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 » Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1951 » Tim Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 » Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1976)
• 1952 » Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia († 2003)
• 1953 » Howard Kurtz, American journalist and author
• 1953 » Robert Cray, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 » Benno Möhlmann, German footballer and manager
• 1954 » James Gleick, American journalist and author
• 1954 » Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer († 2006)

• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
• 1967 » Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Doris Fleeson, American journalist (b. 1901)
• 1970 » Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1970 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)

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.
• March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
• April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
• May 3 » The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
• June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
• 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 August 1, 1952 was between 12.2 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.