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{{Year nav|1952}}
== 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]].
== Births ==
* [[March 11]] – [[Douglas Adams]]
* [[April 4]] – [[Gary Moore]], [[Northern Ireland|Irish]] [[musician]] (d. [[2011]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Wang Xiaobo]], Chinese writer
* [[July 1]] – [[Dan Aykroyd]], [[Canada|Canadian]] [[actor]] in [[TV]] series and [[movie]]s
* [[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]], [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent
* [[July 26]] – [[Eva Perón]], Argentine wife of [[Juan Perón]]
* [[September 29]] – [[George Santayana]], writer
* [[September 30]] – [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor|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|Bedřich Hrozný]], Czech orientalist and linguist
* [[December 28]] – [[Fletcher Henderson]], jazz musician (b. [[1897]])
== Movies released ==
* ''High Noon''
== 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 (novel)|Giant]]'' – [[Edna Ferber]]
* ''[[Go Tell it On The Mountain]]'' – [[James Baldwin (writer)|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 (novel)|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|''The Voyage of the'' Dawn Treader]] – [[C. S. Lewis]]
==Hit Songs==
* "[[All Of Me]]" – [[Johnnie Ray]]
* "[[Anytime]]" – [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|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 (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[Kiss Of Fire]]" – [[Georgia Gibbs]]
* "[[A Kiss To Build A Dream On]]" – [[Louis Armstrong]]
* "[[Lady Of Spain]]" – [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[Lover (song)|Lover]]" – [[Peggy Lee]]
* "[[Maybe (song)|Maybe]]" – [[Perry Como]] & [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[My Favorite Song]]" – [[Georgia Gibbs]]
* "[[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (song)|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 (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[Temptation (1933 song)|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 (song)|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 (1952 song)|Wish You Were Here]]" – [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[You Belong to Me (1952 song)|You Belong to Me]]" – [[Jo Stafford]]
* "[[You'll Never Be Mine]]" – [[Guy Mitchell]]
{{Commonscat|1952}}
[[Category:1952| ]]
== 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]].
== Births ==
* [[March 11]] – [[Douglas Adams]]
* [[April 4]] – [[Gary Moore]], [[Northern Ireland|Irish]] [[musician]] (d. [[2011]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Wang Xiaobo]], Chinese writer
* [[July 1]] – [[Dan Aykroyd]], [[Canada|Canadian]] [[actor]] in [[TV]] series and [[movie]]s
* [[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]], [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent
* [[July 26]] – [[Eva Perón]], Argentine wife of [[Juan Perón]]
* [[September 29]] – [[George Santayana]], writer
* [[September 30]] – [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor|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|Bedřich Hrozný]], Czech orientalist and linguist
* [[December 28]] – [[Fletcher Henderson]], jazz musician (b. [[1897]])
== Movies released ==
* ''High Noon''
== 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 (novel)|Giant]]'' – [[Edna Ferber]]
* ''[[Go Tell it On The Mountain]]'' – [[James Baldwin (writer)|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 (novel)|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|''The Voyage of the'' Dawn Treader]] – [[C. S. Lewis]]
==Hit Songs==
* "[[All Of Me]]" – [[Johnnie Ray]]
* "[[Anytime]]" – [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|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 (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[Kiss Of Fire]]" – [[Georgia Gibbs]]
* "[[A Kiss To Build A Dream On]]" – [[Louis Armstrong]]
* "[[Lady Of Spain]]" – [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[Lover (song)|Lover]]" – [[Peggy Lee]]
* "[[Maybe (song)|Maybe]]" – [[Perry Como]] & [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[My Favorite Song]]" – [[Georgia Gibbs]]
* "[[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (song)|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 (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[Temptation (1933 song)|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 (song)|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 (1952 song)|Wish You Were Here]]" – [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]]
* "[[You Belong to Me (1952 song)|You Belong to Me]]" – [[Jo Stafford]]
* "[[You'll Never Be Mine]]" – [[Guy Mitchell]]
{{Commonscat|1952}}
[[Category:1952| ]]