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• Marla Rae Heemstra, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2007)
• Hendrika Spijker, Den Ham, Overijssel, Nederland († 2015)
• Gerritdina Johanna Kapitein, Enschede († 2010)
• Levenloos Rietstap, Rotterdam († 1952)
• Ria Van der Veeken, Baarle-Nassau († 1972)
• Archie Leroy Lush, Martinsville, Monroe County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1961)
• Hein Egberts († 2023)
• Engel Ariýn Knibbe, Coulours 89, Friesland, Nederland († 1992)
• Karel Latten, Heerlerheide, Limburg, Nederland († 2005)
• Marc Veracx, Roeselare († 1995)

• Almira Kelsey (87)
• 'Jeanne' Valery Celine Nelly PIRLOT (67), Ixelles (Bruxelles-Capitale), Brussels Capital Region, Belgie
• Aaltje Rebel (77), Huizen
• Anna Maria Zonneveld (80), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Marian Pieters Hoitinga (0), Wezep, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Boneschansker (54), Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Anna Rhemrev (Vermehr) (67), Zierikzee
• Adriana van Moort (78), Tholen
• Andrew Powers (83), Henderson County, Tennessee
• Adriana Jacoba KLOPPERS (79), Tilburg

• 1951 » Cees van der Knaap, Dutch soldier and politician
• 1951 » Seth Justman, American keyboard player and songwriter
• 1952 » Billy Johnson, American football player and coach
• 1952 » Brian Gottfried, American tennis player
• 1952 » G. E. Smith, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1952 » Tam O'Shaughnessy, American tennis player, psychologist, and academic
• 1954 » Ed Schultz, American talk show host and sportscaster († 2018)
• 1954 » Peter Laird, American author and illustrator
• 1955 » Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1955 » John Roberts, American lawyer and judge, 17th Chief Justice of the United States

• 1940 » Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1942 » Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1888)
• 1951 » Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish field marshal and politician, 6th President of Finland (b. 1867)
• 1956 » Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Bernard Friedberg, Austrian scholar and author (b. 1876)
• 1963 » John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Abraham Walkowitz, American painter (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (b. 1888)
• 1967 » crew of Apollo 1
• 1970 » Rocco D'Assunta, Italian actor, comedian and playwright (b. 1904)

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. 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".
• May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
• June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
• September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
• 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 January 27, 1952 was between -2.7 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.