1952: Year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1949 1950 1951 – 1952 – 1953 1954 1955

Events

January 8 – West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.
January 24 – Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria.
January 24 – Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
Unknown date – Pakistan's first test match.
Unknown date – The Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India

Births

January 18 - Michael Angelis, English actor (d. 2020)
January 20 - Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter and musician (Kiss)
February 13 - Erik Yakovici, Croatian politician and Christian Democrat
February 14 - Oktawjan Józefowicz, Polish politician and Minister of Health
February 23 - Brad Whitford, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
March 10 - Mike O'Donnell, English musician and composer
March 11 – Douglas Adams
March 26 – Luka Oztürk, Croatian politician and Croatian judge
April 4 – Gary Moore, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (d. 2011)
April 16 - Dušan Pavél, Bosnian politicians and rugby union
May 11 - Leart Enzo, Macedonian folk music
May 13 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
June 28 - John Patrick Lowrie, American voice actor
June 30 - Dilfel Tadeo, Bulgarian musician and folk music
July 1 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor in TV series and movies
July 3 - Levin Ante, Croatian-Serbian politician and judge
July 6 - Grant Goodeve, American voice over artist
July 16 - Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police)
August 7 - Gary Schwartz, American voice actor
September 12 - Neil Peart, Canadian drummer (Rush) (d. 2020)
October 1 - Ivan-Milan Kiraly, Croatian musician
October 22 - Dennis "Fly" Amero, American singer-songwriter and musician (Orleans)
October 31 - Aron Xavier, Croatian politician and judge
November 3 – Jim Cummings, American actor
November 16 – Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese game designer
December 1 - Ellen McLain, American voice actress
December 11 - Susan Seidelman, American director

Deaths

January 18 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian
February 6 – King George VI of the United Kingdom
February 19 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)
February 22 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland
March 7 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru
March 22 – Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer
March 31 – Wallace H. White, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1877)
April 3 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish union activist
April 21 – Sir Stafford Cripps, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1947-1950
May 6 – Maria Montessori Italian educator (cerebral hemorrhage) (b. 1870)
May 8 – Walter Fox, American movie producer
May 21 – John Garfield, actor
June 17 – Krystyna Skarbek, SOE agent
July 26 – Eva Perón, Argentine wife of Juan Perón
September 29 – George Santayana, writer
September 30 – Viscount Waldorf Astor, British businessman and politician
October 28 – Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia
November 9 – Chaim Weizmann, chemist, first President of Israel (b. 1874)
November 18 – Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
November 23 – Aaro Hellaakoski, Finnish poet
December 12 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist
December 28 – Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician (b. 1897)

Movies released

African Queen
High Noon
Monkey Business
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Snow of Kilimanjaro

New books

Adventures in Two Worlds – A.J. Cronin
Arrow in the Blue – Arthur Koestler
A Buyer's Market – Anthony Powell
Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
La Formica Argentina – Italo Calvino
Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov
Giant – Edna Ferber
Go Tell it On The Mountain – James Baldwin
The Gown of Glory – Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Heaven and Earth – Carlo Coccioli
The Hidden Flower – Pearl S. Buck
The Houses in Between – Howard Spring
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Island of Desire – Edith Templeton
Judgment Night – C. L. Moore
A Many-splendoured Thing – Han Suyin
Martha Quest – Doris Lessing
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Power of Positive Thinking – Norman Vincent Peale
The Rolling Stones – Robert A. Heinlein
The Saracen Blade – Frank Yerby
The Silver Chalice – Thomas B. Costain
The Small Miracle – Paul Gallico
Steamboat Gothic – Frances Parkinson Keyes
Vermeer – Lawrence Gowing
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C. S. Lewis

Hit Songs

"All Of Me" – Johnnie Ray
"Anytime" – Eddie Fisher
"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" – Vera Lynn
"Be My Life's Companion" – The Mills Brothers
"Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" – Rosemary Clooney
"Christmas Roses" – Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
"Day Of Jubilo" – Guy Mitchell
"Delicado" – Percy Faith & his Orchestra
"The Glow-Worm" – The Mills Brothers
"A Guy Is A Guy" – Doris Day
"Half As Much" – Rosemary Clooney
"Heart And Soul" – The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
"Here In My Heart" – Al Martino
"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" – Frankie Laine
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" – Karen Chandler
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" – Jimmy Boyd
"I Went To Your Wedding" – Patti Page
"I'll Walk Alone" – Don Cornell
"I'm Confessin'" – Les Paul and Mary Ford
"I'm Just A Poor Bachelor" – Frankie Laine
"I'm Yours" – Eddie Fisher
"Kiss Of Fire" – Georgia Gibbs
"A Kiss To Build A Dream On" – Louis Armstrong
"Lady Of Spain" – Eddie Fisher
"Lover" – Peggy Lee
"Maybe" – Perry Como & Eddie Fisher
"My Favorite Song" – Georgia Gibbs
"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" – Guy Mitchell
"Please, Mr. Sun" – Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
"Ramblin' Man" – Frankie Laine
"Rock Of Gibraltar" – Frankie Laine
"Settin' The Woods On Fire" – Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
"A Sinner Am I" – Johnnie Ray
"Slow Poke" – Arthur Godfrey
"So Madly In Love" – Georgia Gibbs
"Somewhere Along The Way" – Nat King Cole
"Sugarbush" – Doris Day & Frankie Laine
"Tell Me Why" – Eddie Fisher
"Temptation" – Mario Lanza
"Tenderly" – Rosemary Clooney
"Tiger Rag" – Les Paul and Mary Ford
"Till I Waltz Again With You" – Teresa Brewer
"Tonight You Belong To Me" – Frankie Laine
"Unforgettable" – Nat King Cole
"Walkin' My Baby Back Home" – Johnnie Ray
"Wheel Of Fortune" – Kay Starr
"When I Fall In Love" – Doris Day
"When You're In Love" – Frankie Laine
"Why Don't You Believe Me" – Joni James
"Winter Wonderland" – Perry Como
"Wish You Were Here" – Eddie Fisher
"You Belong to Me" – Jo Stafford
"You'll Never Be Mine" – Guy Mitchell

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