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• THEODOR BENEKE († 1955)
• Freddy Van Serveyt († 1952)
• Lorraine Sue (Lorrie) Gritter, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Marleen Haezebrouck
• Catharina Philomena Maria Hapers, Gilze en Rijen
• Willemijntje Elizabeth Buijs, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Geesje Doornbos, Meppel († 2021)
• Behrend Berserik, Voorburg († 1952)
• Gerard Jan Zandbergen, De Zilk, ZH, Nederland († 2011)
• Gezinus Timmer, Gasselternijveen Gasselte AA en Hunze Drenthe Nederland († 2019)

• Doodgeboren kind Witlox (0), Vught
• Dirkje van Leeuwen (77), De Bilt
• * Marinus Kraneveld (71), Tilburg
• Adriaan Laurijsen (76), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Janse (80), Zierikzee Zeeland Nederland
• Elzéar Lauzon (62)
• Catharina van Tongeren (37), Leiden
• Florentine Tina Lippmann (75)
• Fokke Post (96), Urk
• Charles Abel Jencks [WdiFgctOKBu] Charley (74), Elk City, Beckham County, Oklahoma or Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

• 1951 » DeForest Soaries, American minister and politician, 30th Secretary of State of New Jersey
• 1952 » Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2010)
• 1952 » John Emburey, English cricketer and coach
• 1952 » John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » Ric Menello, American director and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1953 » Gerry Bertier, American football player († 1981)
• 1953 » Jim Trenton, American radio host and actor
• 1953 » Leroy Burgess, American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer
• 1953 » Mike Jackson, American politician
• 1953 » Peter Horton, American actor and director

• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)

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.
• March 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
• April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
• April 28 » The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
• July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
• November 4 » The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.

The temperature on August 20, 1952 was between 11.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.