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• Robert Dean Kieft († 1975)
• Pamela Isabella Curle, Balmain, New South Wales, Australia († 2013)
• Pricilla Ann Spetter, Munich, Bavaria, Germany († 2005)
• Robert Louis Newberger († 1963)
• Anna Maria "Annemieke" Hendrika Meister († 1995)
• George Leendert Herman Jr. Buis, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1972)
• Aletta de Leeuw († 2006)
• Jeanneke van Santvoort, Eindhoven
• N.N. van Eijk, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1952)
• Paulus Antonius Petrus J. van der Sloot, Boxtel († 2010)

• Gerhard (71), Enschede
• Aaltje van Laar (72)
• Andries Wijtzes van Kammen (60), Leeuwarden
• Aagje Hooijberg (90), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Goris (71)
• August Joseph Malfait (58), Menen, 8930, Kortrijk, West Vlaanderen
• Andries Wytzes (1) van Kammen (60), ,,, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Albert van Ingen (77), Arnhem
• Antoinette Maria Paulina Scheffers (51), Wassenaar, Nederland
• Anna Hendrika Hermsen (73), Nijmegen (Gl)

• 1949 » Ken Anderson, American football quarterback and coach
• 1951 » Jane Seymour, English-American actress, producer, and jewelry designer
• 1951 » Markku Alén, Finnish race car driver
• 1951 » Melissa Manchester, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1952 » Nikolai Sorokin, Russian actor and director († 2013)
• 1952 » Tomislav Nikolić, Serbian politician, 4th President of Serbia
• 1953 » Ernie Howe, English footballer, defender and manager
• 1953 » Tony Adams, Irish-American screenwriter and producer († 2005)
• 1954 » Matt Groening, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 » Janice Dickinson, American model, agent, and author

• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)
• 1966 » Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and theologian (b. 1929)
• 1966 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish architect and historian (b. 1909)
• 1967 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish air marshal (b. 1882)

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.
• February 26 » Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
• April 9 » Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
• 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.
• August 11 » Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
• September 12 » Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

The temperature on February 15, 1952 was between -3.3 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.