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• Petrus Johannes Wildbret, Amsterdam († 1995)
• Robert Rijsdijk, Amsterdam († 1952)
• Piet Gerard de Jong, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Koster, Westerborf, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1952)
• Theodorus Wilhelmus Cornelis Hoogeveen, Noordwijk († 1953)
• Gerard van Duiven, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1952)
• Dimphena Antonette Catharina Immerentiana van Loon, Santpoort († 2011)
• Anna Gerarda Maria Vermeij, Waddinxveen († 1953)
• johanna martina wilhelmina adriana (angelique) wilms, asten
• Johannes Petrus Maria KAASENBROOD, Santpoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)

• Caspar Maria Vincentius Joseph Houben (63), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriane Petronella Antoinette van Zon (60), Delft
• Arthur Gerard Frans Beckers (0), Hingene
• Antje Westra (73), Augustinusga, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Doornbos (24), Detroit (Michigan, USA)
• Arie van Kooten (48)
• Aaltje de Graaff (73), 's Gravenhage
• Abraham Albertus Segaar (69), unbekannt
• Anna Laura Dechesne (14), Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland
• Antonius Davits (63), Budel

• 1951 » Danny Joe Brown, American southern rock singer-songwriter and musician († 2005)
• 1951 » Orson Scott Card, American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist
• 1951 » Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic († 2013)
• 1952 » Bob Corker, American businessman and politician
• 1952 » Carlo Curley, American organist and educator († 2012)
• 1952 » Ian Grob, English race car driver
• 1952 » Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican dub poet
• 1952 » Marion Bloem, Dutch author, director, and painter
• 1952 » Mike Shanahan, American football player and coach
• 1953 » Ron Holloway, American saxophonist

• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)

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 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.
• May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
• June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
• September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
• 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.

The temperature on August 24, 1952 was between 10.3 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.