Historical figures in 1952

The atlas holds 80 people and 119 moments here, in 1952. The most recorded lives are Yukio Mishima, Eva Perón and Eleanor Roosevelt. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Musicians and Composers.

Notable people

  1. Herbert Hoover

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…

  2. Hideki Yukawa

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…

  3. Hirohito

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Hirohito (posthumously Emperor Shōwa) was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.…

  4. Huang Xianfan

    in 1952

    2 moments here

    Huang Xianfan was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist, educator, and pioneer of field research on minority peoples in Guangxi and neighboring…

  5. Idi Amin

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Ugandan army officer and dictator who was president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. This chronology records documented physical presences from his birth…

  6. Idriss Déby

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Chadian military officer and politician who led the Patriotic Salvation Movement to power in December 1990 and served as Chad's president from 1991…

  7. Igor Stravinsky

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…

  8. Ingmar Bergman

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter, theatre director, theatre manager and author. Bergman’s career moved between Stockholm’s student and professional…

  9. Italo Calvino

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…

  10. Jacques Derrida

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    French philosopher, born Jackie Élie Derrida, associated with deconstruction. His career moved from Algeria and Paris to recurrent teaching and…

  11. Jiang Zemin

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Jiang Zemin was a Chinese electrical engineer and politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002,…

  12. Jim Morrison

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    James Douglas “Jim” Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, poet, and lead vocalist of the Doors.…

  13. John Eccles

    in 1952

    2 moments here

    Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) was a Nobel laureate noted for research on synaptic transmission.…

  14. Jomo Kenyatta

    in 1952

    4 moments here

    Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…

  15. Jorge Amado

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Brazilian modernist writer, journalist, and Communist politician whose life moved between Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, South America, Europe,…

  16. Jorge Rafael Videla

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Argentine Army officer and de facto president of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. His dictatorship, the National Reorganization Process, conducted…

  17. Juan Manuel Fangio

    in 1952

    4 moments here

    Argentine racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio was a five-time Formula One World Drivers’ Champion.…

  18. Judy Garland

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    American actress, singer, and vaudevillian, born Frances Ethel Gumm. Garland rose from childhood vaudeville and MGM musical films to become a major…

  19. Julius Nyerere

    in 1952

    2 moments here

    Tanzanian anti-colonial leader, political theorist, and founding president of Tanzania. Nyerere led the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU),…

  20. Katharine Hepburn

    in 1952

    2 moments here

    American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…

  21. Le Corbusier

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…

  22. Louis Armstrong

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…

  23. Macfarlane Burnet

    in 1952

    2 moments here

    Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

  24. Manmohan Singh

    in 1952

    1 moment here

    Indian economist, academic, civil servant, finance minister and prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.…

Moments

  1. 1952 Residence with Claude Lanzmann Simone de Beauvoir
  2. 1952 Teaching commute to Chicago Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  3. 1952 Doctoral study at Oxford Sydney Brenner
  4. 1952 Autumn Swiss expedition high point Tenzing Norgay
  5. 1952 Alliance discussions in Province Wellesley Tunku Abdul Rahman
  6. 1952 Visiting lecturer at Harvard Walter Brattain
  7. 1952 First stay in Rio de Janeiro Yukio Mishima
  8. 1952 Visit to Greece Yukio Mishima
  9. 1952 Lecturer at Southampton Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
  10. 1952 Sessions House committal proceedings Alan Turing
  11. 1952 Acceded while at Sagana Lodge Elizabeth II
  12. 1952 Spent the night at Treetops Elizabeth II
  13. 1952 Marriage to Michael Wilding Elizabeth Taylor
  14. 1952 Marriage to David Foster Glynis Johns
  15. 1952 Birth at Ambala Cantonment Sushma Swaraj
  16. 1952 Return to Rio de Janeiro Yukio Mishima
  17. 1952 Stay in Lins Yukio Mishima
  18. 1952 Stay in São Paulo Yukio Mishima
  19. 1952 Gross-indecency trial Alan Turing
  20. 1952 Birth in Cambridge Douglas Adams
  21. 1952 India visit Eleanor Roosevelt
  22. 1952 Rural Workers’ Congress speech Eva Perón
  23. 1952 Coup at Camp Columbia Fulgencio Batista
  24. 1952 Return to the renovated White House Harry S. Truman
  25. 1952 Investigation route through Du'an, Donglan, and Nandan Huang Xianfan
  26. 1952 Birth in Gutu Morgan Tsvangirai
  27. 1952 Final banquet and death Paramahansa Yogananda
  28. 1952 Marries Nancy Davis Ronald Reagan
  29. 1952 Impulsive journey to Spain V. S. Naipaul
  30. 1952 Chamber of Deputies honor-box appearance Eva Perón
  31. 1952 Workers’ Day address Eva Perón
  32. 1952 Peace-treaty anniversary ceremony Hirohito
  33. 1952 Candida closes in New York Olivia de Havilland
  34. 1952 New York Republican fundraiser Richard Nixon
  35. 1952 Arrival at Surabaya Gubeng station Sukarno
  36. 1952 Swiss Everest altitude record Tenzing Norgay
  37. 1952 Political trip to Prague Doris Lessing
  38. 1952 Presidential candidacy announcement Dwight D. Eisenhower
  39. 1952 Final Workers’ Day parade appearance Eva Perón
  40. 1952 Speech at the Sorbonne Helen Keller
  41. 1952 Birth at Berdoba Idriss Déby
  42. 1952 Marriage to Sidney Luft Judy Garland
  43. 1952 Filmed Niagara at Niagara Falls Marilyn Monroe
  44. 1952 Launches Defiance Campaign in Durban Nelson Mandela
  45. 1952 Marriage to Mary Louise Bell Richard Feynman
  46. 1952 Assumes central posts in Beijing Deng Xiaoping
  47. 1952 Return to London from the Soviet Union Doris Lessing
  48. 1952 Death at Unzué Palace Eva Perón
  49. 1952 Coup monitoring in Cairo Gamal Abdel Nasser
  50. 1952 British Council visitorship Julius Nyerere

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