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• Maria Christophorus VERSTEEG, IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland († 2004)
• Gijs van Kessel, Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland († 2003)
• Sijtske van der Meulen, Leeuwarden († 1952)
• Mary Jeanette Roosingh, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Hendrik Antonius Joha († 2004)
• Marian van Wijk, Vught († 2023)
• Gerrit Lambertus Verwoert, Zwolle († 1952)
• Thomas van Roekel († 1952)
• Johannes Wilhelmus Marie Wagemans, Holtum, Born, Limburg, Nederland († 2019)
• Jelle Kleine, Hoogeveen, Drenthe (NL) († 2004)

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• Aalbert Bosch (34), Ede
• Carrie Mabel Clouser (78), Johnsonburg, Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Adriana van Luijk (89), Helmond
• Christina van der Leeden (62), Schiedam (NL)
• Arnoldus van Asperen (70), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Catharina Kroon (55), Haarlem
• Annie Boone (78), Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States
• Christina Aletta Termeer (79)
• Antje Pieterdr Bregman (75)

• 1946 » Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 » Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1946 » Graham Gouldman, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1947 » Caroline B. Cooney, American author
• 1949 » Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer
• 1952 » Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer
• 1955 » Mark David Chapman, American murderer
• 1956 » Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist († 1995)
• 1957 » Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player († 1979)
• 1958 » Gaétan Boucher, Canadian speed skater

• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1964 » Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)
• 1982 » Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)

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.
• April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• 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.
• July 3 » The Constitution of Puerto Rico is approved by the United States Congress.
• September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
• September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

The temperature on May 10, 1952 was between 3.9 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.