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• Marc van de PUTTE, Geraardsbergen, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 2002)
• Glen Raymond Flu († 2004)
• Geertruida Wilhelmina van Duijn, Katwijk († 1966)
• Gerhard Gerrits, Hellendoorn († 2024)
• NN van Ooijhuizen, Bennekom
• Geertruida Wilhelmina van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Gerrit Grondman († 2015)
• Boyd Peter Kooij, Baarn († 2018)
• Christine L SLYTER, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Marc Van de Putte, Geraardsbergen († 2002)

• Anna Goedknegt (53), Amsterdam
• Barthelomeus Gerardus Arnts (70), Ubbergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Gesina Maria Fust (36), purmerend
• Alida Hermina Rijff (76), Amsterdam
• Bartholomeus Gerardus Arnts (70), Ubbergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Gies (68), Stokkum
• Bartholomeus Gerardus Arnts (70), Ubbergen
• Baukje Pool (82), Assen, Nederland
• Bertha E. Thornton (64), Owatonna, Steele County, Minnesota, United States of America
• Adriana Oprel (73), Rotterdam

• 1948 » Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 » Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
• 1950 » Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer
• 1950 » Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer
• 1950 » Paul Callery, Australian footballer
• 1950 » Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer († 1992)
• 1951 » Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1951 » Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach
• 1953 » Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter
• 1954 » Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer

• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)
• 1958 » Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
• 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)

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.
• April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
• April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on April 18, 1952 was between 7.1 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.