1952

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.

Births

• March 11 – Douglas Adams
• April 4 – Gary Moore, Irish musician (d. 2011)
• May 13 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
• July 1 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor in TV series and movies
• July 21 – Robin Williams, American actor
• November 3 – Jim Cummings, American actor
• November 16 – Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese game designer

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