In the year 1952, West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders (Jan 8), Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom (Feb 7), Wernher von Braun publishes his ideas on space travel (Mar 22), East Germany threatens to form its own army (May 1), the Summer Olympics commence in Helsinki, Finland (Jul 19), Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States (Jul 25), West Germany agrees to pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks to Israel for the costs of resettling the Jewish refugees after the war (Aug 27), NSA is founded (Nov 4), the first successful sex reassignment surgery is performed in Copenhagen, Denmark (Nov 20), the first successful surgical separation of Siamese twins is conducted in Cleveland, Ohio (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born:

1952-0102 Wendy Phillips* actress - Brooklyn, NY USA 1952-0116 Andrey Zubov* historian/ religion scholar/political scientist - Moscow. Russia, Soviet Union 1952-0117 Ryuichi Sakamoto* 坂本 龍 composer/ record producer/writer - Tokyo, Japan (2023/71) 1952-0119 Leif Salmén* journalist/ poet/writer - Helsinki, Finland (2019/67) 1952-0120 Ute Hommola* athlete (javelin/OB)/agricultural engineer - Weißenborn, East Germany 1952-0125 1952-0126 Mimi Leder* film director - New York, NY USA 1952-0127 Asma Jahangir* human rights lawyer /activist - Lahore, West-Pakistan (2018/66) 1952-0131 Anne-Marie Berglund* Swedish poet/ novelist/ pictorial artist - Helsinki, Finland (2020/68) 1952-0203 Deepti Naval* American actress - Tarn Taran, Punjab, India 1952-0207 Graham James* hockey coach/ convicted sex offender - Summerside, Canada 1952-0208 Jukka Mäkelä* film producer/one of the founders of Finnkino - Helsinki, Finland 1952-0212 Henry Rono* long-distance runner - Nandi Hills, Kenya 1952-0218 Efva Attling* model/entrepreneur/ wife of Eva Dahlgren - Stockholm, Sweden 1952-0219 Rodolfo Neri Vela* astronaut - Chilpancingo, Mexico 1952-0220 1952-0221 Kimmo Sasi* lawyer/ politician - Tampere, Finland (2025/73) 1952-0225 Tomas Ledin* singer-songwriter/guitarist/producer - Östersund, Sweden 1952-0229 Raisa Smetanina* cross-country skier - Mokhcha, Russia, Soviet Union 1952-0301 1952-0304 Ron Moss* actor (The Bold and the Beautiful)/musician/singer - Los Angeles, CA USA 1952-0310 1952-0311 Douglas Adams* author/ scriptwriter/ humorist - Cambridge, England (2001/49) 1952-0319 Harvey Weinstein* film producer/convicted sex offender - New York, NY USA 1952-0320 1952-0322 Bob Costas* sportscaster - Queens, NY USA 1952-0325 Robert Fox* theater and film producer - Cuckfield, Sussex, England 1952-0327 Maria Schneider* actress - Paris,  France (2011/58) 1952-0329 John Hendricks* founder of Discovery Communications - Matewan, WV USA 1952-0329 Bola Tinubu* accountant/ politician/P of Nigeria - Lagos, British Nigeria 1952-0331 1952-0401 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi* head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines/accused of the Lockerbie bombing - Tripoli, United Kingdom of Libya (2012/60) 1952-0401 Annette O’Toole* actress/ dancer/singer-songwriter - Houston, TX USA 1952-0404 Gabriel Yacoub* musician/ visual artist - Paris, France (2025/72) 1952-0405 1952-0406 Clayton Christensen* academic/ business consultant/LDS - Salt Lake City, UT USA (2020/67) 1952-0406 Marilu Henner* actress/producer/radio host - Chicago, IL USA 1952-0407 Clarke Peters*  actor/singer/writer - New York, NY USA 1952-0408 Arcadi Gaydamak* Russian-Israeli businessman/philanthropist - Moscow. Russia, Soviet Union 1952-0410 Steven Seagal* martial artist/ actor/producer - Lansing, MI USA 1952-0416 Bill Belichick* NFL coach - Nashville, TN USA 1952-0418 George Knapp* investigative journalist/talk radio host - Woodbury, NJ USA 1952-0421 Tarmo Pihlap* teacher/singer - Estonia, Soviet Union (1999/47) 1952-0425 1952-0428 Mary McDonnell* actress – Wilkes-Barre, PA USA 1952-0429 David Icke* conspiracy theorist/lecturer - Leicester, England 1952-0502 Christine Baranski* actress - Buffalo, NY USA 1952-0504 Belinda Green* Miss World 1972/actress/veterinary nurse - Melbourne, Australia 1952-0511 Frances Fisher* British-American actress/partner of Clint Eastwood - Milford on Sea, Hampshire, England 1952-0511 Warren Littlefield* television executive - Montclair, NJ USA 1952-0514 Robert Zemeckis* filmmaker/screenwriter - Chicago, IL USA 1952-0515 Chazz Palminteri* actor/screenwriter - The Bronx, NY USA 1952-0517 Boudjemaa Talai* engineer/ corporate executive/politician - Cheffia, French Algeria (2022/70) 1952-0520 Roger Milla* football player - Yaoundé, Cameroon 1952-0525 Hannele Pokka* politician/ Governor of Lapland/M - Ruovesi, Finland 1952-0528 Mahmoud Jibril* محمود جبريل الورفلي politician/PM- Benghazi, Libya (2020/67) 1952-0531 1952-0601 1952-0602 Gary Bettman* NHL commissioner - Queens, NY USA 1952-0604 Parker Stevenson* (b Parker) actor - Philadelphia, PA USA 1952-0607 A’Lelia Bundles* journalist/news producer/great granddaughter of Madam C. J. Walker - Chicago, IL USA 1952-0607 Liam Neeson* actor - Ballymena Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland 1952-0607 Orhan Pamuk* novelist/screenwriter/N - Istanbul, Turkey 1952-0610 1952-0617 Sergio Marchionne* Italian-Canadian businessman - Chieti, Italy (2018/66) 1952-0618 Isabella Rossellini* actress/daughter of Ingrid Bergman - Rome, Italy 1952-0620 John Goodman* actor - Affton, MO USA 1952-0620 Vikram Seth* novelist/poet - Kolkata, West Bengal, India 1952-0622 Graham Greene* actor - Six Nations Reserve, ON Canada 1952-0624 Bob Neill* lawyer/ politician - Ilford, Essex, England 1952-0625 Klaus Teuber* dental technician/boardgame designer - Breuberg, West Germany (2023/70) 1952-0627 Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty* banker - Orissa, India (2021/68) 1952-0627 Greg Palast* investigative journalist/author - Los Angeles, CA USA 1952-0628 Pietro Mennea* athlete (sprinter/OG)/politician - Barletta, Apulia, Italy (2013/60) 1952-0630 1952-0701 Dan Akroyd* actor - Ottawa, ON Canada 1952-0703 Laura Branigan* singer -  Brewster, NY USA (2004/52) 1952-0703 Jean-Paul Pierrat* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Xonrupt-Longemer, France 1952-0704 Muhammad Kamaruzzaman* journalist/ politician - Sherpur, East Pakistan (2015/62) 1952-0706 Hilary Mantel* (b Thompson) writer - Glossop, Derbyshire, England (2022/70) 1952-0708 Marianne Williamson* author/ spiritual leader/political activist - Houston, TX USA 1952-0711 Timo Salminen* cinematographer - Finland 1952-0715 Terry O’Quinn* actor - Sault Ste. Marie, MI USA 1952-0717 David Hasselhoff* actor - Baltimore, MD USA 1952-0721 Hannele Lauri* actress - Tampere, Finland 1952-0725 1952-0727 Rich Dauer* baseball player/coach - San Bernardino, CA USA (2025/72) 1952-0727 Hannu-Pekka Hänninen* sports commentator - Helsinki, Finland 1952-0801 Arto af Hällström* theater director - Helsinki, Finland 1952-0804 Kristoffer Tabori* actor - Malibu, CA USA 1952-0805 Louis Walsh* entertainment manager - Kiltimagh, Mayo, Ireland 1952-0807 Tiina Nunnally* author/ translator/of Finnish descent - Chicago, IL USA 1952-0808 Mike Ivie* baseball player/entrepreneur - Atlanta, GA USA (2023/70) 1952-0809 Ewa Fröling* actress - Stockholm, Sweden 1952-0810 1952-0817 Nelson Piquet* racing driver/WC - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1952-0818 Patrick Swayze* actor - Houston, TX USA (2009/57) 1952-0820 1952-0822 Terje Strømdahl* actor/ director - Norway 1952-0826 Michael Jeter* actor - Lawrenceburg, TN USA (2003/50) 1952-0827 Paul Reubens* actor/comedian (Pee-wee Herman)/producer - Peekskill, NY USA 1952-0827 Roger Stone* political consultant - Norwalk, CT USA 1952-0831 1952-0902 Jimmy Connors* tennis player - East St. Louis, IL USA 1952-0904 Rishi Kapoor* actor - Bombay, Maharasthra, India (2020/67) 1952-0906 Dominik Graf* film director - Munich, Germany 1952-0909 Angela Cartwright* actress - Altrincham, Cheshire, England 1952-0909 David Allan Stewart* musician/songwriter - Sunderland, England 1952-0910 Gustav Levin* actor - Sigtuna, Sweden 1952-0911 Michael H. West* forensic odontologist - LA USA 1952-0913 Allen Vizzutti* trumpeter/ composer/music educator - Missoula, MT USA 1952-0920 Sekhar Basu* nuclear scientist - Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India (2020/68) 1952-0921 Michael Hirst* screenwriter/producer - Bradford, West Yorkshire, England 1952-0921 Lasse Norres* music manager - Helsinki, Finland 1952-0922 1952-0923 Abba Kyari* Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria - Borno, British Nigeria (2020/67) 1952-0923 Myriam Ullens* (b Lechien) Belgian entrepreneur/philanthropist - Cologne, West Germany (2023/70) 1952-0924 Joseph P. Kennedy II* politician - Boston, MA USA 1952-0925 Christopher Reeve* actor/ activist/author - New York, NY USA (2004/52) 1952-0929 Helen Morgan* Miss World 1974/actresss - Walsall, England 1952-0930 1952-1001 1952-1004 Zinha Vaz*(b Francisca Vaz Turpin) Bissau-Guinean women’s rights activist and politician - Bissau, Guinea-Bissau 1952-1005 Clive Barker* writer/ director/visual artist - Liverpool, England 1952-1005 Imran Khan* cricketer/ politician/PM - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan 1952-1006 1952-1007 Mary Badham* actress/ art restorer - Birmingham, AL USA 1952-1007 Ivo Gregurević* Croatian actor - Donja Mahala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (2019/66) 1952-1007 Vladimir Putin* intelligence officer/politician/P - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union 1952-1007 Ludmilla Tourischeva* gymnast/OGt - Grozny, Russia, Soviet Union 1952-1008 Edward Zwick* flmmaker/producer - Chicago, IL USA 1952-1009 Sharon Osborne* music manager/television host - Brixton, London, England 1952-1010 Björn Wahlroos* businessman - Helsinki, Finland 1952-1014 Kaija Saariaho* composer/active in France - Helsinki, Finland (2023/70) 1952-1018 Chuck Lorre* television writer/producer/composer - New York, NY USA 1952-1020 1952-1021 Patti Davis* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA 1952-1021 Brent Mydland* American keyboardist/vocalist/songwriter (The Grateful Dead) - Munich, West Germany (1990/37) 1952-1022 Jeff Goldblum* actor - West Homestead, PA USA 1952-1022 Kirsti Manninen* writer/ screenwriter - Seinäjoki, Finland 1952-1027 Roberto Benigni* stand-up comedian/actor - Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy 1952-1029 Jouko Innanen* illustrator/caricaturist - Ristiina, Finland (2019/66) 1952-1029 Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah* Namibian politician/P - Onamutai, South West Africa 1952-1101 1952-1103 Roseanne Barr* stand-up comedian/ actress/macadamia farmer - Salt Lake City, UT USA 1952-1105 Oleg Blokhin* football player/manager - Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union 1952-1110 1952-1117 Cyril Ramaphosa* politician/P - Soweto, South Africa 1952-1118 Delroy Lindo* actor/theater director - Lewisham, London, England 1952-1121 Lorna Luft* actress/singer/daughter of Judy Garland - Santa Monica, CA USA 1952-1122 Linda Thomas-Greenfield* civil servant/diplomat - Baker, LA USA 1952-1125 1952-1128 S. Epatha Merkerson* actress - Saginaw, MI USA 1952-1129 Jeff Fahey* actor - Olean, NY USA 1952-1129 Samantha Lewes* actress - Hayward, CA USA (2002/49) 1952-1130 Mandy Patinkin* actor - Chicago, IL USA 1952-1201 Rick Scott* (b Myers) businessman/ politician/Governor of Florida - Bloomington, IL USA 1952-1205 Günther Förg* painter/ graphic designer/sculptor - Füssen, West Germany (2013/61) 1952-1206 Edward Etzel* sports shooter/OG - New Haven, CT USA 1952-1206 Craig Newmark* entrepreneur/creator of the website Graiglist - Morristown, NJ USA 1952-1206 David L. Spector* cell & molecular biologist - New York, NY USA 1952-1207 Giséle Pelicot* French feminist icon/rape victim - Willingen, West Germany 1952-1210 1952-1212 Peter Haber* actor - Stockholm, Sweden 1952-1216 Jon Morrison* actor (Vera) - Glasgow, Scotland 1952-1221 Dennis Boutsikaris* actor - Newark, NJ USA 1952-1222 1952-1224 Kevin Killian* poet/author/playwright - Long Island, NY USA (2019/66) 1952-1224 Hilkka Riihivuori* (b Kuntola) cross-country skier - Jurva, Finland 1952-1225 CCH Pounder* Guyanese-American actress - Georgetown, British Guiana 1952-1227 Tovah Feldshuh* actress/singer/playwright - New York, NY USA 1952-1231 Vaughan Jones* mathematician - Gisborne, New Zealand (2020/67) 1952-0 1952-0 1952-0 Updated 2025-0426 Helsinki Search for another year here