page_title: 1952
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1952 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Asma Jahangir, a prominent Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist. She has worked tirelessly to champion the human rights of women, children and the poor in Pakistan and S.E. Asia, and has served as a United Nations Special Rapporteur. Jahangir is among 10 distinguished individuals to receive honorary degrees from Simon Fraser University in 2017.
context_page_description: 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: January 1
  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
  Jury Zacharanka, Belarusian politician
  January 2
  Makoto Nakajima, Japanese bureaucrat, Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office
  Ng Man-tat, Hong Kong actor
  Elvira Saadi, Soviet gymnast
  January 3 – Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
  January 7 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong martial arts superstar, producer and director
  January 9 – Marek Belka, 11th Prime Minister of Poland
  January 12
  Charles Faulkner, American life coach, motivational speaker, trader and author
  Walter Mosley, American author
  January 14
  Maureen Dowd, American journalist
  Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, 60th Prime Minister of Romania
  January 15 – Boris Blank, Swiss musician
  January 15 – Skay Beilinson, Argentinian guitar player
  January 16 – H.R.H. Prince Ahmed Fuad Farouk (Fuad II), the last King of Egypt & Sudan, Nubia, Kordofan and Darfur
  January 17 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician, composer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
  January 18 – Wim Rijsbergen, Dutch footballer
  January 19
  Beau Weaver, American male voice actor
  Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
  Michel Plante, Canadian ice hockey left winger
  Nadiuska, German television actress
  January 20 – Dave Fennoy, African-American voice actor
  January 21
  Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
  Louis Menand, American writer, critic
  January 22 – Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
  January 24 – Raymond Domenech, French football player, manager
  January 25
  Sara Mandiano, French singer, songwriter
  Peter Tatchell, Australian-born British human rights activist
  January 27
  Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human rights activist, lawyer (d. 2018)
  January 28 – Tomokazu Miura, Japanese actor
  January 29 – Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (d. 2009)
  January 30 – Valery Khalilov, Russian military band conductor (d. 2016)
  January 31
  Jan Hofer, German journalist, broadcast news analyst and television presenter
caption: Asma Jahangir
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