August 1952
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August 1, 1952 (Friday)[edit]
- Born: Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician (d. 2003)
- Died: Andrew Higgins, American businessman (b. 1886)
August 2, 1952 (Saturday)[edit]
- Born: Arthur "Art" James, American baseball player
- Died:
- Charles K. French, American actor, film director, and screenwriter (b. 1860)
- J. Farrell MacDonald, American actor and director (b. 1875)
August 3, 1952 (Sunday)[edit]
- Born: Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentine association football player and manager
August 4, 1952 (Monday)[edit]
- Born:
- Estanislau da Silva, East Timorese politician
- Moya Brennan, Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist
August 5, 1952 (Tuesday)[edit]
The Treaty of Taipei between Japan and the Republic of China goes into effect, to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- Born:
- Hun Sen, 30th Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Louis Walsh, Irish music producer, reality TV show judge
- Died: Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear physicist (b. 1917)
August 6, 1952 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Born:
- Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
- Louis Walsh, Irish music producer, reality TV show judge
- Died:
- Betty Allan, Australian statistician and biometrician (b. 1905)
- Francis Pegahmagabow, Canadian military officer (b. 1889)
August 7, 1952 (Thursday)[edit]
- Born: Alexei Sayle, English comedian
August 8, 1952 (Friday)[edit]
- Born:
- Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
- Robin Quivers, African-American radio personality (The Howard Stern Show)
August 9, 1952 (Saturday)[edit]
- Born: Vicki Morgan, American model (d. 1983)
August 10, 1952 (Sunday)[edit]
- Born: Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
August 11, 1952 (Monday)[edit]
- The Jordanian Parliament forces King Talal of Jordan to abdicate due to mental illness; he is succeeded by his son King Hussein.[1]
- Born: Bob Mothersbaugh, American composer, guitarist (Devo)
- Died:
- Riccardo Martin, American tenor (b. 1874)
- Dave Sands, Australian boxer (b. 1926)
August 12, 1952 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 Soviet Jewish poets are executed.[2]
- Born:
- Daniel Biles, American associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
- Charlie Whiting - British motorsports director (d. 2019)
- Died: Peretz Markish, Soviet-born Israeli poet (b. 1895)
August 13, 1952 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Japan joins IMF, marking reintegration after WWII.[3]
- Born:
- Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002)
- Gary Gibbs – American football coach
August 14, 1952 (Thursday)[edit]
- West Germany joins the IMF and the World Bank.
August 15, 1952 (Friday)[edit]
- Died: Armida Barelli, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable (b. 1882)
August 16, 1952 (Saturday)[edit]
- Born: Reginald VelJohnson, American actor
August 17, 1952 (Sunday)[edit]
- Born: Guillermo Vilas, Argentine tennis player
August 18, 1952 (Monday)[edit]
- Born:
- Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer (Dirty Dancing) (d. 2009)
- Pete Richens, British screenwriter (d. 2018)
- Died:
- Alberto Hurtado, 20th-century Chilean Jesuit priest and social worker, later a saint (b. 1901)
- Ralph Byrd, American actor (b. 1909)
August 19, 1952 (Tuesday)[edit]
- Born: Jonathan Frakes, American director and actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
August 20, 1952 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Born:
- John Emburey, English Test and County cricketer
- Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)
- John Hiatt, American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter
- Ric Menello, American director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
August 21, 1952 (Thursday)[edit]
- Born:
- Joe Strummer, British musician, singer, actor and songwriter (d. 2002)
- Jiří Paroubek, Czech minister of regional development of the CR, member of Czech Parliament (2006–2013) and prime minister of the CR
August 22, 1952 (Friday)[edit]
- The most damaging shock of the 1952 Kern County earthquake sequence strikes with a moment magnitude of 5.8, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This event damages several hundred buildings in Bakersfield, California, with total additional losses of $10 million, with two associated deaths and some injuries.[5]
- Died: Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1867)
August 23, 1952 (Saturday)[edit]
- Kitty Wells is the first woman to score a number 1 hit, with the song "It wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels".
- Died: Henri Coutière, French zoologist, who specialized in the field of carcinology (b. 1869)
August 24, 1952 (Sunday)[edit]
- Born: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican-born musician, poet
August 25, 1952 (Monday)[edit]
- Born: Geoff Downes, British keyboardist (Asia)
August 26, 1952 (Tuesday)[edit]
- A British passenger jet makes a return crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in the same day.
- Born:
- Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player
- Michael Jeter, American film, stage, and television actor (d. 2003)
- Died: Giovanni Cazzani, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and servant of God (b. 1867)
August 27, 1952 (Wednesday)[edit]
- Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg: Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks.
- Born:
- Paul Reubens, American actor, writer, film producer, game show host, and comedian
- Roger Stone, American political consultant and lobbyist
August 28, 1952 (Thursday)[edit]
- Born:
- Rita Dove, American poet (1987 Pulitzer Prize, United States Poet Laureate 1993–95)
- Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
August 29, 1952 (Friday)[edit]
- Composer John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in Woodstock, New York.
- Died:
- Euphrasia Eluvathingal, Indian Carmelite nun and saint (b. 1877)
- Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer, son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche (b. 1894)
August 30, 1952 (Saturday)[edit]
- The last Finnish war reparations are sent to the Soviet Union.
- Died: Arky Vaughan, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1912)
August 31, 1952 (Sunday)[edit]
The Grenzlandring racetrack closes in Wegberg, Germany.
- Died: Henri Bourassa, Canadian political leader and publisher (b. 1868)
- Born:
- Eli Gorenstein, Israeli actor, voice actor and cellist
- Lee Hyla, American composer
- Hilary Farr, British-Canadian designer, businesswoman, television host and actress
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- ↑ Elliot House, Karen (6 September 2008). "The Art of Middle East Survival". 27 August 2013. Retrieved The Wall Street Journal. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Rubenstein, Joshua (2001). "Introduction." In: Rubenstein and Vladimir Naumov (Eds.), Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780300129397 Search this book on
.. p. 504.
- ↑ JAPAN’S HISTORY WITH THE IMF
- ↑ 1952: Flood devastates Devon village
- ↑ Stover & Coffman 1993, pp. 86, 87, 144–147
