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• Gust Carolus Constantina Maria Nefkens, Eindhoven († 1953)
• Jozef Gerardus Dautzenberg, Kerkrade († 1952)
• Yvonne Carmen Samson († 2012)
• Helene Johanne Jensen, Narvik, Norway († 2013)
• Jan Hovius, Grootegast († 2015)
• wilhelmina johanna gemma (mien) versteegen, helden-beringe
• Garland Christopher Buck |||, Beaufort County, North Carolina († 1960)
• Jozefina G.H. Henraath, Helmond († 1997)
• Hermina Ubels, Zwolle († 2016)
• Baukje Weening, - († 2004)

• Annechien Hekman (72), Stadskanaal
• André Johan Gault (73), Palma-de-Mallorca, Mallorca
• Catharina VAN DE VEN (90), Wuustwezel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Annie E CHAPMAN (69), Essex, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States Of America
• Allegonda Eijkemans (77), Ommel
• Alida STAARINK (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana de Wolf (74), Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• "Ludmilla Maria" Rosario Anne-Berthe Angèle Madeleine Leopoldine von Lobkowicz (30), Praha
• Aaltje Kwadijk (85), Beemster, Nederland
• Charles Landreau (54), Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1950 » Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice
• 1950 » Gary Panter, American illustrator and painter
• 1950 » Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academic
• 1950 » Richard Keith, American actor and drummer
• 1950 » Ross Hannaford, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2016)
• 1951 » Doug Mulray, Australian radio and television host
• 1951 » Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, songwriter, and producer († 1987)
• 1951 » Obba Babatundé, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 » Treat Williams, American actor
• 1952 » Stephen Poliakoff, English director, producer, and playwright

• 1935 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
• 1947 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894)
• 1954 » Fred Rose, American pianist, composer, and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
• 1964 » J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (b. 1892)
• 1968 » Darío Moreno, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1921)
• 1968 » Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (b. 1887)

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.
• January 26 » Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
• February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
• May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
• July 3 » The SSUnited States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMSQueen Mary.
• 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.
• December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.

The temperature on December 1, 1952 was between -5.4 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.