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• Stephen Francis SMITH († 2019)
• Marguerite Neven, Wellen, België († 2022)
• Henry Michael J Daniels, Liverpool,, Lancashire, England, Verenigd Koninkrijk († 1983)
• Cornelis Daniël Adrianus Broekhof, Leiden, zkh († 2023)
• Leo Pieter van der Noll, Rotterdam († 1980)
• Cees Hulleman († 2008)
• Thea Emons († 2006)
• Elo Madsen, Esbjerg Dk († 2006)
• Kerry Patricia Humphries († 1975)
• Diane Lyn Huibregtse († 2002)

• Achiedl August Van Poucke (69), Huise, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Amelia Hendrika Hermana Dina Buddingh (72), Amsterdam
• Nijkamp (82), Langeveen
• Dirk Hoogenboezem (72), bodegraven (zuid holland)
• Adriana van der Hoeven (70), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje LULA (76), Haren, Groningen (Nederland)
• Elza, Catharina, Josepha Van Moer (42)
• Ariën Bonhof (73), Emst
• Anna Maria Ammerlaan (52), Vlaardingen
• Berend Straalman (37), Zutphen

• 1948 » Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter († 2004)
• 1949 » Jim Broadbent, English actor
• 1949 » Roger Deakins , English cinematographer
• 1953 » Alfred Molina, English actor
• 1955 » Philippe Lafontaine, Belgian singer and songwriter
• 1955 » Rajesh Roshan, Indian composer
• 1955 » Rosanne Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 » Dominic Grieve, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1956 » Larry Blackmon, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1956 » R. B. Bernstein, American constitutional historian

• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)

• 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 14 » NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
• 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.
• February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
• February 21 » The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
• 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.
• August 11 » Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.

The temperature on May 24, 1952 was between 9.0 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.