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• Bruno Barree, Rutten Tongeren († 1997)
• MARIA ANNA ANTOINETTA KNUBBEN, Heer († 1957)
• Brigitte Boivin, Mashteuiatsh, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Canada († 2012)
• Wilma Kuijvenhoven
• Mieke MIDDELBUSKER, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Aleida Hendrika Botter, den Helder († 2002)
• Idelis Meina Sotomayor, Equador South America
• Willem Gerardus Pieter van Boekholt, Medan, Sumatera Utara, Indonesië († 2015)
• N.n. van Leuven, Eindhoven († 1952)
• Leida Botter († 2002)

• Arsene Van Neste (76), Brugge
• Adriana Brand (91), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Huiberts (67), Haarlem
• Aartje Nuis (38), Rotterdam
• Amory C Coolidge (57), Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Benardus Antonius van Putten (78), Blokker, Hoorn,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje de Vries (87)
• Abraham de Hoop (63), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberta Simmelink (69), Passaic New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje de Vries (70), Haarlem

• 1950 » Lynn Westmoreland, American politician
• 1951 » Ayako Okamoto, Japanese golfer
• 1952 » Lennart Fagerlund, Swedish cyclist
• 1952 » Leon Wilkeson, American bass player and songwriter († 2001)
• 1952 » Will Hoy, English race car driver († 2002)
• 1953 » Debralee Scott, American actress († 2005)
• 1953 » James Vance, American author and playwright († 2017)
• 1953 » Jim Allister, Northern Irish lawyer and politician
• 1953 » Malika Oufkir, Moroccan Berber writer
• 1953 » Rosemary Bryant Mariner, 20th and 21st-century U.S. Navy aviator

• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and educator (b. 1887)
• 1974 » Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (b. 1911)

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.
• 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 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
• October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
• 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.

The temperature on April 2, 1952 was between -2.0 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.