About the day » Monday September 8, 1952Calender converter

• Abraham Tanja, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2012)
• Gerard van de Weerd († 2022)
• Irene Dubois, Lanaken († 1970)
• Dolores Jane "Dori" Kamper, Sault Ste. Marie, MI († 2010)
• Roland Pierre Cottes, Pamiers, Ariège, Occitanie, France († 2019)
• Johanna Hermina Maria (Hanny) van Os, SINT NICOLAASGA (De Friese Meren), Friesland, Nederland († 2005)
• Rudi Rudolphus Cornelis Maria van Oosterwijk, Molenschot (Gilze) († 2001)
• Roland Hendrik van Linge († 2016)
• Robert Carl Temple, Clear Lake, Deuel, South Dakota, United States († 2018)
• NN Pottjewijd, Arnhem († 1952)

• Diana de Jong (78), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Reinders (75), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes de Ridder (47), Utrecht
• Cornelis (Cees) van Wijk (60), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Vereggen (85), Dongen
• Bridget Mary Cosgrove (86), Mareeba Queensland, Australia
• Aleida Catharina Sikkema (71), Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna van Dodewaard (85), Wamel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Achille Bekaert (73), Zillebeke (B)
• Arend Huizenga (86), Aduard,, Groningen, Nederland

• 1950 » Ian Davidson, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1951 » Dezső Ránki, Hungarian pianist
• 1951 » John McDonnell, English politician
• 1951 » Tim Gullikson, American tennis player and coach († 1996)
• 1951 » Tom Gullikson, American tennis player and coach
• 1952 » Geoff Miller, English cricketer
• 1952 » Graham Mourie, New Zealand rugby player
• 1952 » Will Lee, American bass player
• 1953 » Pascal Greggory, French actor
• 1953 » Stein-Erik Olsen, Norwegian guitarist

• 1935 » Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
• 1940 » Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)
• 1944 » Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b. 1881)
• 1949 » Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (b. 1864)
• 1954 » André Derain, French painter and sculptor (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman († 1904)
• 1965 » Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 1965 » Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

• 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 20 » The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
• 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.
• May 2 » A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
• 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 4 » The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.

The temperature on September 8, 1952 was between 6.2 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.