1952 deaths

Swedish footballer (1904-1952)

French jurist (1880–1952)

Italian prelate (1888-1952)

Canadian ice hockey player

American biologist and zoologist (1863–1952)

guitar player and vocalist (1900–1952)

Scottish children's book illustrator (1874-1952)

Czechoslovak anarchist, poet, playwright and bookwriter (1877–1952)

Estonian poet (1890-1952)

German Righteous Among the Nations

athletics competitor (1891-1952)

American photographer (1866–1952)

German paleontologist (1870–1952)

Catholic cardinal (1872-1952)

Argentine composer (1862-1952)

American botanist, naturalist and writer (1861 – 1952)

Bulgarian Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (1900–1952)

actress (1888-1952)

field hockey player (1885–1952)

American film director (1885-1952)

German politician (1875-1952)

Hungarian mathematician and physicist specializing in continuum mechanics

Olympic lacrosse player of Canada (1881–1952)

Czech chess player (1908–1952)

Nazi German SS-Gruppenführer (1902－1952)

American rower (1881–1952)

American ornithologist (1889–1952)

American federal judge, Undersecretary of War, later Secretary of War (1891-1952)

Soviet Yiddish poet (1890-1952)

Czech poet, ethnographer, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, translator, writer and science writer (1864—1952)

Hollywood film director, writer, producer and actor (1897-1952)

British engineer and economic theorist (1879–1952)

German writer (1895-1952)

American actor (1879-1952)

Swiss politician (1876-1952)

actor (1890-1952)

French writer (1877–1952)

Vietnamese revolutionary martyr

Russian empress for one day (1880–1952)

Polish teacher and actress, last lover of writer Franz Kafka (1898 or 1902-1952)

French mathematician (1865–1952)

Olympic wrestler (1885-1952)

American doctor (1872-1952)

Austrian physicist (1879–1952)

Egyptian actress, producer, and script writer

German figure skater (1871–1952)

Hungarian bishop (1887-1952)

Canadian soccer player (1871-1952)

American writer of children's books (1910–1952)

German writer (1860–1952)

Swedish footballer (1896-1952)

Australian film director (1880–1952)

British tennis player (1870-1952)

British rower (1891–1952)

actress, producer, playwright, novelist and feminist (1862-1952)

German physician, anatomist, and histologist (1886–1952)

Soviet naval explorer (1890–1952)

Israeli politician (1891-1952)

English tennis player (1872–1952)

Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic (1896–1952)