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• Bert Jan Huurenkamp, Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 1982)
• Baby Patching, Glenelg († 1952)
• Johannes Antonius Horsten, Gilze en Rijen († 2010)
• Leslie Raymond Nikkel, Fairview, Trinity County, California, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Margaret Helen Tierney, Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1953)
• Paul Bantema, Oosterbierum († 1956)
• James Michael Price, Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Kiel, Leiden, Nederland († 1952)
• NN Wenno, Westerbork († 1952)
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Antonius Huijsman, Bilthoven († 2020)

• Aletta Jacoba Blom (85), Dordrecht
• Abramiena Adriana Antonia Slotboom (63), Hardewijk
• Berendina van Dam (79), Wijckel
• Andries Folkers (47), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Catharina Looise (73), Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Agnes Christie Coulter * (88), Prospect, South Australia, Australia
• Anna Christina De Bruycker (84), Erpe, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adriaan van Gestel (73), Berkel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes ten Asbroek (75), Haaksbergen
• Carolus Hendrikus van de Loo (66), Sevenum, Limburg, Nederland

• 1950 » Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author and publisher
• 1950 » Ted Turner, British guitarist
• 1951 » Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2011)
• 1951 » Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 » Per Westerberg, Swedish businessman and politician, Speaker of the Parliament of Sweden
• 1951 » Steve Hillage, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Alain Giresse, French footballer and manager
• 1953 » Anthony Seldon, English historian and author
• 1953 » Butch Patrick, American actor
• 1953 » Donnie Munro, Scottish singer and guitarist

• 1934 » Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (b. 1847)
• 1937 » Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1900)
• 1939 » Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and educator (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 » Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1967 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Brian Cole, American bass player (b. 1942)

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 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
• April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
• June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
• October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.

The temperature on August 2, 1952 was between 13.7 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.