About the day » Sunday October 5, 1952Calender converter

• NN de Weijer, Tiel
• N van Zwaaij, Arnhem († 1952)
• Lola Voss († 2015)
• James Roger Weseman, Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa († 1999)
• Hugo Wilhelmus Anthonius Maria van der Valk, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Bettina Patricia Helen van den Brandeler, Leopoldville (Congo) († 1954)
• Johanna Hendrika van de Beek, Barneveld († 2013)
• Marius Heijkant, Dongen († 1969)
• Hans Verpalen († 2015)
• Martin Linders, Venray, Limburg, Nederland († 2013)

• Adriaan Willem van Heusden (0), Wageningen
• Alpha Eulalia Kelley (77), Bureau County, Illinois
• Caspar Joseph Creuels (61)
• Aaltje ten Kleij (66), Zwolle (Zwolle Kranenburg)
• Antoinetta Verdaas (78), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonie Florijn (73), Neede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antonie Florijn (73), neede
• Camillius Cyrillius Vanlerberghe (80), Tavant, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus VAN RIESSEN (53), Haarlem Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Bridget Mellon (74), Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, Royaume-Uni

• 1950 » "Fast" Eddie Clarke, English rock guitarist († 2018)
• 1950 » Edward P. Jones, American novelist and short story writer
• 1950 » Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer († 2011)
• 1951 » Bob Geldof, British singer-songwriter and actor
• 1951 » Karen Allen, American actress
• 1952 » Clive Barker, English author, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 » Harold Faltermeyer, German keyboard player, composer, and producer
• 1952 » Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and Prime Minister
• 1953 » Philip Hampton, English-Scottish accountant and businessman
• 1953 » Roy Laidlaw, Scottish rugby player

• 1938 » Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (b. 1858)
• 1938 » Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun and saint (b. 1905)
• 1940 » Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded the Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Lincoln Loy McCandless, American rancher and politician (b. 1859)
• 1940 » Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
• 1941 » Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1856)
• 1942 » Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (b. 1861)
• 1943 » Leon Roppolo, American clarinet player and composer (b. 1902)
• 1950 » Frederic Lewy, German-American neurologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1952 » Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884)

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.
• May 3 » The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
• June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• June 21 » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
• September 19 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
• December 30 » An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.

The temperature on October 5, 1952 was between 4.6 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.