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April 1, 1952

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Notable Births

Annette O'Toole

1952Annette O'Toole, American actress[†]

Annette O'Toole is an American actress, singer, and songwriter.

Bernard Stiegler

1952Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher and academic (died 2020)[†]

Bernard Stiegler was a French philosopher. He was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI), which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou. He was also founder of the political and cultural group Ars Industrialis in 2005. In 2010, he established the philosophy school, pharmakon.fr, held at Épineuil-le-Fleuriel. He co-founded Collectif Internation, a group of "politicised researchers" in 2018. His best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.

Historical Context for April 1, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]