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• Sientje Weilhelmina Elizabeth Pieterse, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Robert Van Camp, Kessel, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2011)
• Salete Rocha, Anitápolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1952)
• Anthonius Hendrikus 't Mannetje, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Johanna Adriana Noordam, Rozenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Jacoba (Dieneke) Schuijt, Enkhuizen
• Frederik Carl Brückmann († 1994)
• Dirk Stuiver, Erica, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1970)
• Frederick Nathan Duncan, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri († 2006)
• Aartje Haverkamp († 1954)

• Cornelis Snoep (93), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Petronella WILLEMS (43), Hoogeloon, 3766, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana de VEEN (77), Utrecht
• Arra "Arny, Wite" Wyatt Garmon (55), Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Jane WILKINS (78), Santa Barbara, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonij Pieter Leenhouts (84), Sluis, Zeeland, Nederland Nederland
• Carl Aune (30), Valley City, Barnes County, North Dakota, United States of America
• Anna Maria Hendrika Koster (50), Haarlem
• Anneke Schut (0)
• Adriana VEEN, de (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1949 » Gundappa Viswanath, Indian Cricketer
• 1950 » Angelo Branduardi, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 » Michael Ironside, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1950 » Steve Hackett, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1952 » Michael McDonald, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1952 » Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer († 2010)
• 1953 » Joanna Kerns, American actress and director
• 1954 » Joseph Jordania, Georgian-Australian musicologist and academic
• 1954 » Phil Zimmermann, American cryptographer and programmer
• 1954 » Tzimis Panousis, Greek comedian, singer, and author († 2018)

• 1935 » Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (b. 1846)
• 1942 » Avraham Stern, Polish-Israeli militant leader (b. 1907)
• 1942 » Eugene Esmonde, Irish-English lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1909)
• 1942 » Grant Wood, American painter and academic (b. 1891)
• 1947 » Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian educator, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
• 1954 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1958 » Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1897)
• 1960 » Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Clare Turlay Newberry, American author and illustrator (b. 1903)

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 14 » NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
• January 26 » Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
• May 2 » A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
• May 3 » The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
• May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
• June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.

The temperature on February 12, 1952 was between -3.0 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.