1952

1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1952 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1952
MCMLII
Ab urbe condita2705
Armenian calendar1401
ԹՎ ՌՆԱ
Assyrian calendar6702
Baháʼí calendar108–109
Balinese saka calendar1873–1874
Bengali calendar1359
Berber calendar2902
British Regnal year16 Geo. 6  1 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2496
Burmese calendar1314
Byzantine calendar7460–7461
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4648 or 4588
     to 
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4649 or 4589
Coptic calendar1668–1669
Discordian calendar3118
Ethiopian calendar1944–1945
Hebrew calendar5712–5713
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2008–2009
 - Shaka Samvat1873–1874
 - Kali Yuga5052–5053
Holocene calendar11952
Igbo calendar952–953
Iranian calendar1330–1331
Islamic calendar1371–1372
Japanese calendarShōwa 27
(昭和27年)
Javanese calendar1883–1884
Juche calendar41
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4285
Minguo calendarROC 41
民國41年
Nanakshahi calendar484
Thai solar calendar2495
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
2078 or 1697 or 925
     to 
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
2079 or 1698 or 926

Events

January

  • January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.

February

March–April

May–June

July–August

France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands form the European Coal and Steel community, the foundation organization which would become the European Union.

September–October

November–December

The explosion of the first hydrogen bomb.
  • November 4
    • The 9.0 Mw Severo-Kurilsk earthquake hits the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Soviet Union with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). A tsunami took the lives of more than 2,300 people.
    • 1952 United States presidential election: Republican General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democratic Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson (correctly predicted by the UNIVAC computer).
    • The U.S. National Security Agency is founded.
    • Pace-Finletter MOU 1952: A Memorandum of understanding is signed between "...Air Force Secretary Finletter and Army Secretary Pace that established a fixed wing weight limit [for the Army] of five thousand pounds empty, but weight restrictions on helicopters were eliminated..."[4]
  • November 18Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya, for an alleged connection to the Mau Mau Uprising.
  • November 20
    • The first official passenger flight over the North Pole is made, from Los Angeles to Copenhagen.
    • The first successful sex reassignment surgery is performed in Copenhagen, making George Jorgensen Jr. become Christine Jorgensen.
  • November 29Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a political campaign promise, by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

December

Date unknown

  • The Nordic Council agrees to the unrestricted transport of people, goods and services throughout the Nordic Countries.
  • The National Prohibition Foundation is incorporated in Indiana.
  • Supramar launched the first commercial high-speed craft, a hydrofoil.
  • Säynätsalo Town Hall in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto, is completed.
  • The influential multistory residential building, Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, France, designed by Le Corbusier, is completed.
  • Swedish paratrooper training school Fallskärmsjägarna (FJS) is established.
  • During the Mau Mau Uprising, the poisonous latex of the African milk bush is used to kill cattle, in an incident of Biological warfare.[5]

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Marek Belka
Asma Jahangir

February

Park Geun-hye
Jenny Shipley
Tomislav Nikolić

March

Harvey Weinstein
Bob Costas

April

Annette O'Toole
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Mary McDonnell
  • April 1
    • Poh Ah Tiam, Malaysian politician, businessman and community leader (d. 2007)
    • Annette O'Toole, American actress
    • Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher (d. 2020)
  • April 2 – Lennart Fagerlund, Swedish cyclist
  • April 4
    • Rosemarie Ackermann, German athlete
    • Gary Moore, Northern Irish musician (d. 2011)
    • Karen Magnussen, Canadian figure skater
  • April 6 – Marilu Henner, American actress (Taxi) and writer
  • April 7 – Nichita Danilov, Romanian writer
  • April 10Steven Seagal, American actor
  • April 11
    • Peter Windsor, British sports reporter
    • Qamar Zaman, Pakistani squash player
  • April 14 – Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish sportsman
  • April 16Billy West, American voice actor
  • April 17
  • April 19 – Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer, politician (d. 2009)
  • April 20 – Eric Pickles, British politician
  • April 21 – Cheryl Gillan, British politician (d. 2021)
  • April 23 – Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (d. 1997)
  • April 24 – Jean-Paul Gaultier, French Haute couture, Prêt-à-Porter fashion designer
  • April 25
    • Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
    • Vladislav Tretiak, Russian ice hockey player
  • April 27 – George Gervin, American basketball player
  • April 28
    • Gerald Barry, Irish composer
    • Mary McDonnell, American actress[13]

May

Anne-Marie David
  • May 1 – Mike Thornton, British politician
  • May 2
    • Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator, broadcaster
    • Christine Baranski, American actress
    • Isla St Clair, Scottish singer
  • May 3
    • Leonid Khachiyan, Russian-born mathematician
    • Allan Wells, Scottish athlete
  • May 4 – Michael Barrymore, British comedian, TV presenter
  • May 6 – Michael O'Hare, American actor (d. 2012)
  • May 10
    • Roland Kaiser, German singer
    • Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish director, writer
  • May 11
    • Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
    • Frances Fisher, British-born American actress
    • Renaud, French composer
  • May 12 – Christopher Gaze, British voice actor
  • May 13 – John Kasich, Governor of Ohio
  • May 14
  • May 15 – Chazz Palminteri, American actor
  • May 18George Strait, American country musician
  • May 19 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch football manager
  • May 20Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
  • May 21Mr. T, African-American actor (The A-Team)
  • May 23 – Anne-Marie David, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1973 winner
  • May 24 – Sybil Danning, Austrian actress

June

July

Brian George
Ahmed Nazif
  • July 1
    • Brian George, Israeli-English actor, voice artist, comedian and singer
    • Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
    • Dale Hayes, South African professional golfer
  • July 2
    • Linda M. Godwin, American scientist[15]
    • Ahmed Ouyahia, Algerian politician
    • Marco Piccinini, Monegasque sport personality, businessman, and politician
  • July 3
    • Laura Branigan, American singer, actress ("Self Control") (d. 2004)
    • Lu Colombo, Italian singer
    • Andy Fraser, English musician (d. 2015)
    • Rohinton Mistry, Indian writer
  • July 4
    • Álvaro Uribe, President of Colombia
    • John Waite, English singer, musician
  • July 6
    • Adi Shamir, Israeli cryptographer
    • Ani Yudhoyono, 6th First Lady of Indonesia (d. 2019)
    • Kim Chul-soo, South Korean footballer
  • July 7
    • Li Hongzhi, Chinese-American founder, spiritual leader of Falun Gong
    • Alain Cortes, French modern pentathlete
  • July 8
    • Ahmed Nazif, Prime Minister of Egypt
    • Knud Arne Jürgensen, Danish music, theater and ballet historian
  • July 10
    • Evelio Leonardia, Filipino politician
    • Anam Ramanarayana Reddy, Indian politician
  • July 11 – Stephen Lang, American actor
  • July 12
  • July 13 – Ricardo Boechat, Argentine-Brazilian journalist, anchor and radio announcer (d. 2019)
  • July 15
    • Yuriko Koike, Japanese politician (Governor of Tokyo)
    • Terry O'Quinn, American actor
    • Marky Ramone, American musician
  • July 16 – Stewart Copeland, American rock musician (The Police)
  • July 17David Hasselhoff, American actor (Knight Rider)
  • July 18 – Albert Camille Vital, Malagasy Army officer, politician and civil engineer
  • July 19 – Allen Collins, American rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
  • July 21 – Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Malaysian Minister of Finance
  • July 24
    • Kamrul Hasan Bhuiyan, Bangladeshi military officer, writer (d. 2018)
    • Gus Van Sant, American film director
  • July 25 – Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese Architect
  • July 26 — Hezi Leskali, Israeli poet and artist (d. 1994)
  • July 28 – Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand (Rama X)
  • July 31 – João Barreiros, Portuguese author

August

September

Nile Rodgers

October

November

  • November 3
    • David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher
    • Michael Shea, American child actor
    • Roseanne Barr, American actress, comedian (Roseanne)
    • Jim Cummings, American voice actor
  • November 4 – Jeff Lorber, American jazz keyboardist, composer and record producer
  • November 5
    • Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian football player and manager
    • Brian Muehl, American puppeteer
    • Bill Walton, American basketball player, commentator
  • November 6 – Michael Cunningham, American writer
  • November 7
    • Geraldo Alckmin, Brazilian politician
    • David Petraeus, American general
  • November 8
    • Jan Raas, Dutch professional cyclist
    • Alfre Woodard, African-American actress, producer and political activist
  • November 9 – Gladys Requena, Venezuelan politician
  • November 13 – Art Malik, Pakistani-born British actor
  • November 14 – Maggie Roswell, American actress
  • November 15Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (d. 2011)
  • November 16Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese game designer
  • November 17
    • Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
    • Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
  • November 18 – John Parr, English singer, songwriter and guitarist
  • November 23 – Sharon O'Neill, New Zealand singer-songwriter and pianist
  • November 24 – Ilja Richter, German actor, voice actor, television presenter, singer and author
  • November 28 – S. Epatha Merkerson, African-American actress (Law and Order)
  • November 29 – John D. Barrow, English cosmologist, theoretical physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)
  • November 30 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer

December

Michael Dorn
  • December 1
  • December 3
    • Bruno Jonas, German Kabarett artist, actor
    • Mel Smith, British comedian (d. 2013)[20]
    • Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Malaysian politician
  • December 6
    • Nicolas Bréhal, French novelist, literary critic
    • Edward Etzel, American Olympic shooter
    • Christian Kulik, Polish football player
  • December 9 – Michael Dorn, African-American actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • December 12
    • Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, Canadian politician
    • Sarah Douglas, English actress
  • December 13 – Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler (d. 1998)
  • December 15
    • Julie Taymor, American film, stage and opera director, costume designer
    • Hwang Woo-suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
    • Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer, coach
  • December 16 – Joel Garner, West Indian cricketer
  • December 20
    • Jenny Agutter, English actress
    • Faisal Al-Fayez, Prime Minister of Jordan
  • December 25
    • Isa Bakar, Malaysian football player (d. 2010)
    • Youssouf Ouédraogo, 6th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2017)
  • December 26 – Riki Sorsa, Finnish singer (d. 2016)
  • December 27
    • Jay Hill, Canadian politician
    • David Knopfler, British musician
    • Tovah Feldshuh, American actress
  • December 28 – Arun Jaitley, Indian politician (d. 2019)
  • December 29
    • Efron Etkin, Israeli actor and voice actor (d. 2012)
    • Külliki Saldre, Estonian actress
    • Philip Hearnshaw, Australian filmmaker (d. 2012)
  • December 30 – June Anderson, American soprano

Deaths

January

Antonia Maury
Sveinn Björnsson

February

Patriarch Callistratus of Georgia
Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola
Theodoros Pangalos

March

Andries Jan Pieters
Don Stephen Senanayake
King Jigme Wangchuck
  • March 1
    • Masao Kume, Japanese playwright, novelist and poet (b. 1891)
    • Gregory La Cava, American film director (b. 1892)
  • March 2 – Ole E. Benson, American politician (b. 1866)
  • March 3 – Antonieta de Barros, Brazilian journalist and politician (b. 1901)
  • March 5 – Sir Charles Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
  • March 7Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
  • March 9Alexandra Kollontai, Russian revolutionary (b. 1872)
  • March 12
    • Hugh Herbert, American actor and comedian (b. 1887)
    • Duke Siegfried August in Bavaria (b. 1876)
  • March 13 – Võ Thị Sáu, Vietnamese schoolgirl (b. 1933)
  • March 18 – Isaak Mazepa, Soviet politician (b. 1884)
  • March 19 – Robert Guérin, French administrator, 1st President of FIFA (b. 1876)
  • March 21 – Andries Jan Pieters, Dutch criminal (b. 1916)
  • March 22
    • Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
    • D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1884)
  • March 26 – J.P. McGowan, Australian actor and director (b. 1880)
  • March 28 – Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1876)
  • March 30 – Sir Jigme Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1905)
  • March 31
    • Bo McMillin, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
    • Walter Schellenberg, German Nazi intelligence official (b. 1910)
    • Roland West, American film director (b. 1885)
    • Wallace H. White, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1877)

April

  • April 1 – Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian novelist and dramatist (b. 1878)
  • April 2
    • Antonio Cortis, Spanish tenor (b. 1891)
    • Julio Enrique Moreno, acting President of Ecuador (b. 1879)
  • April 3 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (b. 1866)
  • April 5
  • April 8 – Tadeusz Estreicher, Polish cryogenics pioneer (b. 1871)
  • April 10 – Frederic Austin, British teacher and composer (b. 1872)
  • April 15
    • Bruno Barilli, Italian actor and composer (b. 1880)
    • Viktor Chernov, Russian revolutionary, leader of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party (b. 1873)
  • April 19 – Steve Conway, British singer (b. 1921)[21]
  • April 21
  • April 23
    • Nikolai Alekseev, Soviet-born Greek Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1869)
    • Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
  • April 27 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
  • April 29 – Manuel Portela Valladares, Spanish political figure (b. 1868)
  • April 30 – Shigenori Kuroda, Japanese general (b. 1887)

May

Juan Bautista Pérez
  • May 2
    • Lagertha Broch, Norwegian illustrator (b. 1864)
    • Matrona Nikonova, Soviet Orthodox nun and saint (b. 1881)
  • May 3 – Juan Carlos Blanco Acevedo, Uruguayan politician (b. 1879)
  • May 5 – Alberto Savinio, Italian writer (b. 1891)
  • May 6Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
  • May 7 – Juan Bautista Pérez, Venezuelan lawyer, magistrate and politician, 43rd President of Venezuela (b. 1869)
  • May 8 – William Fox, Austro-Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1879)
  • May 9 – Canada Lee, American actor (b. 1907)
  • May 10
    • Clark L. Hull, American psychologist (b. 1884)
    • Gino Boccasile, Italian illustrator (b. 1901)
  • May 11 – Giovanni Tebaldini, Italian composer (b. 1864)
  • May 15
    • Albert Bassermann, German actor (b. 1867)
    • Tadeusz Breyer, Polish sculptor (b. 1874)
    • Italo Montemezzi, Italian composer (b. 1875)
  • May 16 – Antonio Correa Cotto, Puerto Rican outlaw (b. 1926)
  • May 18 – Masakazu Nakai, Japanese aesthetician (b. 1900)
  • May 19
    • Luigi Fabris, Italian sculptor (b. 1883)
    • Bangalore Nagarathnamma, Indian singer (b. 1878)
  • May 21 – John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
  • May 22 – Peter Ermakov, Russian Bolshevik leader (b. 1884)
  • May 23 – Georg Schumann, German composer (b. 1866)
  • May 29 – Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko, Ukrainian army officer (b. 1878)

June

Thomas Walsh
Sergei Merkurov
Felix Calonder
  • June 1
    • John Dewey, American philosopher (b. 1859)
    • Malcolm St. Clair, American filmmaker (b. 1897)
  • June 6 – Thomas Walsh, American Roman Catholic archbishop and reverend (b. 1873)
  • June 8 – Sergey Merkurov, Soviet sculptor (b. 1881)
  • June 9
    • Félix Pérez Cardozo, Paraguayan musician (b. 1908)
    • Luigi Puccianti, Italian physicist (b. 1875)
  • June 10
    • Hilda Hongell, Finnish architect (b. 1867)
    • Frances Theodora Parsons, American naturalist (b. 1861)
  • June 12
    • Oleksiy Bazyuk, Bosnian Greek-Catholic hierarch (b. 1873)
    • Genovevo de la O, Mexican revolutionary leader (b. 1876)
    • Michael von Faulhaber, German Cardinal Archbishop of Munich (b. 1869)[22]
  • June 13 – Emma Eames, American soprano (b. 1865)
  • June 14 – Felix Calonder, Swiss politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1863)
  • June 15
    • Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa, Polish activist (b. 1872)
    • Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville), Polish-born British SOE operative during World War II (b. 1908)
  • June 17 – Jack Parsons, American rocket engineer (b. 1914)
  • June 18 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
  • June 24 – Sir George Pearce, Australian politician (b. 1870)
  • June 26 – Theodor Becker, German actor (b. 1880)
  • June 27 – Elmo Lincoln, American actor (b. 1889)
  • June 30 – Eugenio de Liguoro, Italian actor and director (b. 1899)

July

Pedro Lascuráin
Reverend and Servant of God Guillermo Tritschler y Córdova

August

Alberto Hurtado
Hiranuma Kiichirō

September

José Vicente de Freitas
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg

October

November

December

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

Nobel Prizes

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