1952

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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 Jozefowicz, 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 Ozturk, Croatian politician and Croatian judge
April 4 - Gary Moore, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (d. 2011)
April 16 - Dusan Pavel, 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 Stahlberg, 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 Sillanpaa, 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 Peron, Argentine wife of Juan Peron
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 - Bedrich Hrozny, 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