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• Kind Adrianus van de Wijdeven, Eindhoven
• Rosalie Ann Parker, Bath, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada († 2016)
• Joke Gaal, Alblasserdam († 2011)
• Jerry Leroy van Beek, Sanborn, O'Brien County, Iowa († 2019)
• Adrianus Maria Anthonius van Balen, Haarlem († 1997)
• Johanna Léontina CEULEMANS, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Phillip McAllister Clark, Scotland († 2017)
• Maria. J.E.C van Hauten, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland († 2014)
• Levenloos Kind Ykema, Harlingen (FRL) († 1952)
• Willem van Breugel († 2010)

• Antonetta Carolina Maria Poos (64), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Hubertina Heijenrath (63), Bocholtz
• Aaltje Wansleven (64), Maartensdijk, De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Beulah Soles (49), Chadbourn, Columbus County, North Carolina
• Aaltje Bronkhorst (76), Garderen
• arthur jean baptiste LOUCHEUX (68), eleu dit leauwette62
• Bastiaantje Annigje Clazina Valk (65), rotterdam
• Aaltje Wansleven (64), Maartensdijk
• Adriana Louisa van Amelsvoort (91), Tilburg
• Antonius Franciscus Hezemans (66), Eindhoven

• 1948 » Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish director and screenwriter
• 1949 » Lawrence Rowe, Jamaican cricketer
• 1951 » Karen Tei Yamashita, American author and academic
• 1951 » Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
• 1952 » Peter McCullagh, Irish mathematician and academic
• 1952 » Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator
• 1953 » Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
• 1954 » Konstantinos Kypriotis, Greek martial artist († 1995)
• 1955 » Mike Reno, Canadian singer and drummer
• 1955 » Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer and coach

• 1943 » Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (b. 1919)
• 1944 » William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American lieutenant and sailor (b. 1878)
• 1945 » Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (b. 1900)
• 1948 » Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (b. 1887)
• 1950 » Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (b. 1883)
• 1952 » Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866)
• 1953 » Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
• 1954 » Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1956 » Jim Elliot, American missionary and martyr (b. 1928)
• 1958 » Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869)

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 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 9 » Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
• 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.
• April 28 » The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
• August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
• September 19 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.

The temperature on January 8, 1952 was between 3.4 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.