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• Augusta Kombrink, Texel († 2000)
• NN Bex, Heerlen († 1952)
• Robert Lee Jr. Einfeldt, Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa, United States of America († 1971)
• van Zoeren († 2006)
• Hiltje Sietske Bremer, het St. Lidwina ziekenhuis in den Helder († 2022)
• Allen Lee Goemaat, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2015)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1952)
• Conrad Brock O'Kelley, Colorado Springs, CO
• Menno Theodoor Butter, Amsterdam († 1952)
• N.N., Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1952)

• Adrianus van IJperen (85), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Daniel Elisa Jerphanion (88), Bussum,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alois HUYGELIER (71), Ruiselede, Province of West Flanders, Belgium
• Clementina Hunninck (81), Kerksken
• Cornelis Loutentius Harm (Cornelis Lourentius Harm) Bos (49), Groningen
• Bernardus Hermanus Horstman (75), Tubbergen
• Andreas Neuper (91), Krumau,Liezen,Steiermark,Österreich,A
• Edgar J. Nines (34), Woodbury, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Franken (52), Nieuw-Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Derk Mennes (69), Groningen

• 1950 » Eric Carr, American drummer and songwriter († 1991)
• 1950 » Gilles Meloche, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1951 » Brian Grazer, American screenwriter and producer, founded Imagine Entertainment
• 1951 » Cheryl Ladd, American actress
• 1951 » Jamey Sheridan, American actor
• 1951 » Joan Bauer, American author
• 1951 » Piotr Pustelnik, Polish mountaineer
• 1952 » Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1952 » Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player († 1995)
• 1952 » Voja Antonić, Serbian computer scientist and journalist, designed the Galaksija computer

• 1944 » Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1949 » Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (b. 1860)
• 1950 » Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (b. 1865)
• 1956 » John Hayes, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1868)
• 1961 » Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1962 » Roger Wolfe Kahn, American composer and bandleader (b. 1907)

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 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.
• March 15 » In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870mm (73inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
• May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
• July 21 » The 7.3 M_w  Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
• July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
• September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

The temperature on July 12, 1952 was between 11.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.