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• Thé Lau, Bergen, Pays-Bas († 2015)
• Cornelia Maria van Beelen, Noordwijk († 2013)
• Wilhelmina Epiphania Maria Küller, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Ellen Everding, Forest City Municipal Hospital, Forest City, Iowa († 2016)
• Josephine Désirée Antoinette Marie Rouppe van der Voort, ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands († 2006)
• Arie Pieter Jacobus van der Steen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Matheus Josephus (Thé) Lau, Bergen († 2015)
• Jan Vis, Luntern
• Klazien van der Molen, Heerhugowaard († 1979)
• Jacobus L. van der Hout († 1971)

• Ane Mud (81), Amsterdam
• Augusta Wilhelmina Caroline Jurgens (75), Cape Town, Cape, South Africa
• Cornelis Korpershoek (78), Maasland
• Cornelis van Die (0), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Josephina Maria Domen (70), Tilburg
• dr. Gerardus Buchardus Lauwers (61), Helmond
• Albert McDonald (83), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Anna Petronella Slingerland (79), Nieuwer Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Kersten (73), Bergharen, Nederland
• Antje Marcus de Boer (78), Oldemarkt, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1950 » Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2011)
• 1950 » Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Bangladeshi politician
• 1950 » Tengku Sulaiman Shah, Malaysian corporate figure
• 1951 » Andrew Robathan, English soldier and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
• 1951 » Lucie Arnaz, American actress and singer
• 1951 » Mark Bowden, American journalist and author
• 1952 » David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1952 » Nicolette Larson, American singer-songwriter († 1997)
• 1952 » Robert R. McCammon, American author
• 1952 » Thé Lau, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2015)

• 1944 » William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Ernst Busch, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Draža Mihailović, Serbian general (b. 1893)
• 1946 » Florence Fuller, South African-born Australian artist (b. 1867)
• 1950 » Antonie Nedošinská, Czech actress (b. 1885)
• 1950 » Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
• 1959 » Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Eugene Meyer, American businessman and publisher (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)

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 15 » King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
• March 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
• April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
• September 12 » Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
• December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.

The temperature on July 17, 1952 was between 12.8 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.