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• N.N. Jansen, Gilze en Rijen († 1952)
• Klaas Flonk, Almelo († 1952)
• Dr Charles Cameron King DVM, Auburn Lee O, Alabama († 1999)
• Bakx, Zundert
• Jannie Muller († 2013)
• Willem Cornelis Adriaan van der Heiden, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2016)
• Annemieke Steffens, Soesterberg, gemeente Soest (Utr.) († 2010)
• Klaas Flonk, Almelo († 1952)
• Richard Edgar (Rick) BARRIE, Port Arthur Thunder Bay Ontario Canada († 2001)
• Dirk van Willigen, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel († 2008)

• Dieuwke Kooiker (82), Bolsward
• Dirk Andries Plug (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje van de Merwe (82), Dubbeldam
• Annigje Westera (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Annigje Baerveldt (65), Aalmeer
• Andreas Mom (58), Heerlen
• Cornelis Booij (60)
• Aartje van de Merwe (82), Dubbeldam
• Aaltje Lijzen (83), Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Dedelef Gustaaf (Deef) Krüse (80), Amsterdam, Nederland

• 1948 » Nick Stringer, English actor
• 1950 » Patti Austin, American singer-songwriter
• 1951 » Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian businessman and politician, 59th President of Colombia
• 1952 » Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
• 1952 » Diane Venora, American actress
• 1954 » Peter Endrulat, German footballer
• 1954 » Rick Overton, American screenwriter, actor and comedian
• 1955 » Jim Mees, American set designer († 2013)
• 1955 » Mel Tiangco, Filipino journalist and talk show host
• 1956 » Dianne Fromholtz, Australian tennis player

• 1945 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and engineer (b. 1882)
• 1948 » Andrew Brown, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1870)
• 1948 » Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Montague Summers, English clergyman and author (b. 1880)
• 1949 » Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist (b. 1892)
• 1954 » Robert Adair, American-born British actor (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager (b. 1910)
• 1960 » Hamide Ayşe Sultan, Ottoman princess (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Julia Peterkin, American author (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (b. 1903)

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 26 » Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
• March 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
• May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
• July 26 » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
• November 19 » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• December 24 » First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.

The temperature on August 10, 1952 was between 14.6 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.