List of events
Events from the year 1952 in the United States of America .
Incumbents
Events
January
January 14 – The Today Show premieres on NBC , becoming one of the longest-running television series in America.
February
February 2 – A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southern Florida the next day. It is the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm, and the earliest formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin .
February 6 – In the United States, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.
February 20 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball , by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 2 – Wendy Phillips , actress
January 6 – Moondog Spot , wrestler (died 2003 )
January 8 – Mel Reynolds , academic and politician
January 9 – Mike Capuano , lawyer and politician
January 16
January 20 – Stanley Eisen , co-founder of hard rock band KIϟϟ
February 2 – John Cornyn , U.S. Senator from Texas from 2002
February 16 – James Ingram , R&B singer-songwriter, record producer and instrumentalist (died 2019 )
February 22
March 8 – George Allen , U.S. Senator from Virginia from 2001 to 2007
March 22 – Bob Costas , sportscaster
March 23 – Rex Tillerson , 69th United States Secretary of State , CEO of ExxonMobil
April 1 – Rey Robinson , sprinter and coach
April 16
May 2 – Christine Baranski , actress
May 11
May 13 – John Kasich , Governor of Ohio
May 14 – Robert Zemeckis , film director, producer and screenwriter
May 21 – Mr. T , actor
May 25 – Gordon H. Smith , U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1997 to 2009
June 8 – Dave Jennings , American football player and sportscaster (died 2013 )
June 12 – Spencer Abraham , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1995 to 2001
June 20 – John Goodman , actor
July 4 – Paul Rogat Loeb , author and activist
July 8 – Jerry Hertaus , politician and businessman from Minnesota
July 12 – Philip Taylor Kramer , rock musician (died 1995 )
July 14
July 15
July 17
July 21 – John Barrasso , U.S. Senator from Wyoming from 2007
July 31
August 8 – Robin Quivers , African American radio personality (The Howard Stern Show )
August 9 – Vicki Morgan , model (died 1983 )
August 10 – Daniel Hugh Kelly , actor
August 11 – Bob Mothersbaugh , rock composer and guitarist (Devo )
August 12 – Daniel Biles , associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
August 13
August 18 – Patrick Swayze , actor (died 2009 )
August 24 – Bob Corker , U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 2007 to 2019
August 25 – Charles M. Rice , virologist, Nobel Prize recipient
August 26 – Michael Jeter , actor (died 2003 )
September 25 – Christopher Reeve , actor and activist (died 2004 )
October 22
November 2 – Laurence D. Fink , business investor
November 3 – Jim Cummings , voice actor
November 7 – David Petraeus , U.S. Army general
November 9 – Sherrod Brown , U.S. Senator from Ohio from 2007
November 12 – Ronald Burkle , entrepreneur
November 19 – Stephen Soldz , psychoanalyst and activist
December 2
December 7 – Susan Collins , U.S. Senator from Maine from 1997
Deaths
January 8 – Antonia Maury , astronomer (born 1866 )
January 18 – Curly Howard , vaudevillian (The Three Stooges ) (born 1903 )
January 24 – Duke York , film actor (born 1908 )
January 25 – Polly Moran , actress (born 1883 )
January 26 – André Cheron , film actor (born 1880 in France )
January 27 – Fannie Ward , actress (born 1872 )
January 28 – Thomas Hicks , marathon runner (born 1876 )
February 7
February 14
February 21 – Francis Xavier Ford , Roman Catholic bishop, missionary, servant of God and reverend (born 1892 )
March 1 – Gregory La Cava , film director (born 1892 )
March 2 – Ole E. Benson , politician (born 1866 )
March 12 – Hugh Herbert , actor and comedian (born 1887 )
March 22 – Uncle Dave Macon , vaudeville banjoist (born 1870 )
March 31
April 23 – Julius Freed , inventor and banker (born 1887 )
May 9 – Canada Lee , African American actor (born 1907 )
May 10 – Clark L. Hull , psychologist (born 1884 )
May 21 – John Garfield , screen actor (born 1913 )
June 1
June 6 – Thomas Walsh , Roman Catholic archbishop and reverend (born 1873 )
June 10 – Frances Theodora Parsons , naturalist (born 1861 )
June 13 – Emma Eames , soprano (born 1865 )
June 17 – Jack Parsons , rocket engineer and occultist (born 1914 )
June 27 – Elmo Lincoln , film actor (born 1889 )
July 1 – A. S. W. Rosenbach , book collector (born 1876 )
July 4 – Walter Long , film character actor (born 1879 )
July 20 – Isabelle LaMal , film actress (born 1886 )
July 22 – Harry Carter , silent film actor (born 1879)
July 26 – Edward Ellis , actor (born 1870 )
August 1 – Andrew Higgins , boatbuilder and industrialist (born 1886 )
August 2
August 11 – Riccardo Martin , tenor (born 1874 )
August 16 – Lydia Field Emmet , painter (born 1866 )
August 30 – Arky Vaughan , baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates ) (born 1912 )
September 5 – Fernando Luis García , Puerto Rican marine, killed in action (born 1929 )
September 9 – Jonas H. Ingram , admiral (born 1886 )
September 23 – Ray Mala , Nastive American film actor (born 1906 )
September 26 – George Santayana , philosopher, died in Italy (born 1863 in Spain)
September 30 – Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor , businessman and politician (born 1879 )
October 11 – Jack Conway , film producer and director (born 1887 )
October 17 – Julia Dean , actress (born 1878 )
October 19 – Edward S. Curtis , photographer, ethnologist and film director (born 1868 )
October 23 – Susan Peters , actress (born 1921 )
October 24 – Frederick Jacobi , composer (born 1891 )
October 26
November 1 – Dixie Lee , singer (born 1911 )
November 8 – Hugh Prosser , film actor (born 1900 )
November 10 – John Roche , actor (born 1893 )
November 21 – William D. Upshaw , temperance leader (born 1866 )
December 4 – Karen Horney , psychoanalyst (born 1885 in Germany )
December 12 – Billy Cook , spree killer, executed (born 1928 )
December 15 – Emmanuel Boleslaus Ledvina , Roman Catholic prelate, bishop and reverend (born 1868 )
December 19 – Pehr G. Holmes , politician (born 1881 in Sweden )
December 29 – Fletcher Henderson , African American jazz bandleader and pianist (born 1897 )
December 30 – Luke McNamee , admiral and Governor of Guam (born 1871 )
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