About the day » Thursday August 14, 1952Calender converter

• Nn van de Krol, Baarn († 1952)
• Willy Jules Boone, Roeselare, West-Vlaanderen, België († 2020)
• Christiaan Heemskerk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Janneke Schipper († 2020)
• Cobie Martha Houg, Bellingham-Washington (USA) († 1983)
• Terry James Smid, Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Christiaan Heemskerk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Nelly Fokkema, Het Bildt († 2021)
• Cobie Martha HOUG, Bellingham Whatcom County Washington U.S.A († 1983)
• Delbert Henry McMichael, Cottage Grove, Lane, Oregon († 1977)

• Arend Jacobus van Helden (87), Barendrecht
• Conelis de Vette (65), Schiedam (Z-H), Nederland
• Aukje Sijmens Buma (79), IJlst
• Cornelis de Vette (65), Schiedam
• Aaltje Enting (85), Assen, Nederland
• Alida Jacoba van Ooijen (39), Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christianus Cornelius van den Braak (56), Tilburg
• Cornelis (Cees) Jan de Jong (45), Overdinkel
• Christina VERHOEVEN (81), Ridderkerk
• Anna Elisabeth Soeters (74)

• 1948 » Terry Adams, American pianist and composer
• 1949 » Morten Olsen, Danish footballer and coach
• 1950 » Gary Larson, American cartoonist
• 1951 » Norbert Hofmann, German footballer and manager
• 1951 » Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
• 1952 » John McCutcheon, American folksinger
• 1953 » James Horner, American composer and conductor († 2015)
• 1954 » Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1954 » Stanley A. McChrystal, American general

• 1941 » Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)
• 1951 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
• 1956 » Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)

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 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 26 » Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
• 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.
• July 3 » The SSUnited States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMSQueen Mary.
• September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
• September 12 » Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

The temperature on August 14, 1952 was between 10.2 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.