About the day » Saturday November 1, 1952Calender converter

• Wilhelm Plokker, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Wim Plokker, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• William Lee Calihan, Linton-Indiana (USA) († 2018)
• Henk van Boxtel, Den Dungen († 2003)
• Cornelis van der Pol, Harlingen († 2011)
• Hennie van den Brink († 1995)
• Berendina van Galen, Coevorden († 1952)
• Etienne Decaestecker, Ieper († 2020)
• Rob Oosterhaven, Gouda
• Petersen († 2005)

• Barbara Koolman (77), Amersfoort
• Auke Hogeveen (84), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bernardus Cornelius Bastings (73), Tilburg
• Aaltje van Ark (91), Kampen
• Audrey Lynn Dawson (0)
• Arie Nap (72), Barwoutswaarder
• * Frans Kriek (50), 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltien Koopman (75), Buitenpost, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Cornelis Bastings (73), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Josepha Koek (4), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1949 » David Foster, Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1949 » Michael D. Griffin, American physicist and engineer
• 1950 » Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and musician († 2011)
• 1950 » Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic Frontier Foundation
• 1950 » Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1951 » Craig Serjeant, Australian cricketer and chemist
• 1951 » Fabrice Luchini, French actor and screenwriter
• 1951 » Ronald Bell, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer
• 1953 » Jan Davis, American engineer and astronaut
• 1953 » Paul Wellings, English ecologist and academic

• 1938 » Charles Weeghman, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1942 » Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1952 » Dixie Lee, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1955 » Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet, author, and diplomat (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Georgios Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 134th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Robert MacArthur, Canadian-American ecologist and academic (b. 1930)
• 1972 » Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (b. 1902)

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.
• January 14 » NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
• February 15 » King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
• 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.
• May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
• 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.

The temperature on November 1, 1952 was between 0.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.