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• Mary van de Ven, Veghel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Rozetta Grooten, Heerlen († 1986)
• Elzo Pieter Kleine, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van Mulken, Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland († 2023)
• Kirk Dean Pruismann, Hawarden, Sioux County, Iowa († 2013)
• Petrus Jacobus Franciscus Maria KOENRAADS, Eindhoven, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands († 2022)
• Dominique van den BERG, Utrecht
• Wanda EliSabeth Watson, unbekannt († 2012)
• N.n. Pape, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrie van Wanrooij, Oss († 2019)

• Cornelis van Emmerik (68), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Bakker (62), Wieringen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Anette Vogel (71), Goedereede, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aris Burger (86), Haarlem
• Cornelis Boer, de (91), Apeldoorn
• Achille(S) Aloïs(E) Ou Achillus Aloysus HAEZEBROUCK (83), Reninge (Flandre Occidentale)
• Casper Nicolaus Nicolaas Brossmann Brosmann (63), 's-Gravenhage
• Aart Willem Leeflang (58), 's-Gravenhage
• Cornelis Franciscus Bertens (78), Tilburg Nederland
• Albert Reilink (90), Bathmen

• 1946 » Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer
• 1946 » Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author
• 1946 » Ralph Coates, English international footballer († 2010)
• 1949 » Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1949 » Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler († 1995)
• 1951 » John Battle, English politician
• 1954 » Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer
• 1954 » Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player
• 1955 » Kurt Bodewig, German politician
• 1956 » Koo Stark, American actress and photographer

• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)
• 1950 » George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 » Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)
• 1964 » E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (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 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.
• March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
• March 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
• 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.
• July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
• December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.

The temperature on April 26, 1952 was between 4.3 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.