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• Martina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Vosters, Eindhoven († 1952)
• - Grooten, Emmen († 1952)
• levenloos geboren zoontje († 1952)
• Levenloos SPRONK, Oldebroek († 1952)
• George Holmes, Derry, Co. Derry, NI († 2007)
• Geertruida Johanna Maria Hoogervorst, Sassenheim († 2016)
• NN Grooten, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cosme Rech, Luiz Alves, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1997)
• X ?, USUMBURA (BURUNDI) († 2015)
• Cornelis Maria Hermanus Peters, De Zilk, Noordwijkerhout († 2023)

• Cornelia van Wijngaarden (57), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Aage Christian Otterstrøm (79), Copenhagen, Denmark
• Antoinette Engelina Smit (55), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Peeters (71), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacoba Bouman (66), Cadier &, Keer
• Cornelis Schouten (57), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Koenen (78), Prinsenbeek (Breda), Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Janssen (67), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Summer Potts (70), Hastings, Barry, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Althemus Joseph Delahoussaye Jr (34), Riverside

• 1947 » Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer
• 1949 » Lois McMaster Bujold, American author
• 1951 » Lindy Morrison, Australian rock drummer
• 1951 » Thomas Mallon, American novelist, essayist, and critic
• 1952 » Maxine Nightingale, English R&B/soul singer
• 1954 » Pat Croce, American businessman and author
• 1955 » Chris Burnett, American saxophonist and composer
• 1955 » Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager
• 1956 » Dale Brown, American author and pilot
• 1957 » Carter Beauford, American drummer and composer

• 1944 » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
• 1949 » Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 » George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
• 1958 » Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 » Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)

• 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.
• 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.
• August 12 » The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
• September 19 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
• October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
• November 25 » Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
• 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 November 2, 1952 was between 5.3 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 13.2 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.