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• Theodorus Wilhelmus Cornelis Hoogeveen, Noordwijk († 1953)
• Anna Gerarda Maria Vermeij, Waddinxveen († 1953)
• Doodgeboren kind Scheeres, Venlo († 1952)
• Dimphena Antonette Catharina Immerentiana van Loon, Santpoort († 2011)
• Petronella Johanna Cornelia Touw, Born, Nederland († 2017)
• Levenloos Scheeres, Venlo († 1952)
• Daniel (Daan) Faase († 2007)
• Dimphnena Antonette Catharina Immerentiana van Loon, Santpoort († 2011)
• Cornelis Kooijman, Rotterdam († 1959)
• Corwyn Glen van Middendorp, Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa († 2018)

• Antje Hendriks Westra (73), Opeinde
• Aaltje de Graaff (73), 's Gravenhage
• Abraham van Weeren (***) (59), Leiden,2311,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Annita Georgina Edith Tester (2), Schiermonnikoog
• Catharina Maria van Wissen (76), ·Äòs-Gravenhage
• Alida van Alphen (96), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Koster (0), Westerborf, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adriane Petronella Antoinette van Zon (60), Delft
• Albert Doornbos (24), Detroit (Michigan, USA)
• Antonius Davits (63), Budel

• 1951 » Danny Joe Brown, American southern rock singer-songwriter and musician († 2005)
• 1951 » Orson Scott Card, American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist
• 1951 » Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic († 2013)
• 1952 » Bob Corker, American businessman and politician
• 1952 » Carlo Curley, American organist and educator († 2012)
• 1952 » Ian Grob, English race car driver
• 1952 » Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican dub poet
• 1952 » Marion Bloem, Dutch author, director, and painter
• 1952 » Mike Shanahan, American football player and coach
• 1953 » Ron Holloway, American saxophonist

• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)

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.
• March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
• May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
• June 17 » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
• August 12 » The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
• September 19 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
• October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.

The temperature on August 24, 1952 was between 10.3 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.