1952

1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade..

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