1952

**1952** (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

## 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