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• Grietje Oostra, Heerenveen († 1985)
• Johanna Maria Louise van den Broek, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)
• Martin Victor Brown († 1973)
• Johannes Christinus Cornelis Maria van Broekhoven, Vught († 1964)
• Joan Elizabeth Trueman, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Christine Chipman SMITH, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 2019)
• Luc Louisa Willem Kinnart, Mechelen († 1952)
• Nico Oudenhoven, Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland († 1979)
• Dennis Kallemeyn († 1995)
• Annie Klinkom († 1995)

• Adrianus Martinus Kapteijns (53), Eindhoven
• Agatha Geertruida Abresch (73), Groningen
• Aleida Naber (47), Eelde
• Adrianus Cornelis Dekkers (45), Roosendaal, Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van Beers (86), Tilburg
• Albert Ernst KUHNKE (70), Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States of America
• Arnold Klaas Robert de Lange (36), Ermelo
• Anna Wilhelmina VERHAEGEN (55), Heythuysen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Charlotta Henriette Wijngaarden (92), Purmerend 117
• Arie den Otter (55), Ridderkerk

• 1950 » Luigi Delneri, Italian footballer and manager
• 1951 » Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic († 2004)
• 1951 » Allan Bristow, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 » Jimi Jamison, American singer-songwriter and musician († 2014)
• 1951 » Mark Hudson, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1951 » Queen Noor of Jordan
• 1952 » Georgios Paraschos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1952 » Santillana, Spanish footballer
• 1953 » Bobby G, English singer-songwriter
• 1954 » Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter

• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)

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.
• July 26 » King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
• August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
• September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
• September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
• November 25 » Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.

The temperature on August 23, 1952 was between 8.2 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.