Famous Deaths for Year 1952

Months in Year 1952: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 155

Jan 4th - Constantly Permeke, Flemish painter (Boerin), dies at 65
Jan 5th - Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for Eng 3 for Ind), dies
Jan 5th - Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64
Jan 8th - Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant & dwarf stars), dies
Jan 8th - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66
Jan 11th - Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, gen (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61
Jan 11th - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
Jan 14th - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
Jan 15th - Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
Jan 17th - Walter O "Spike" Briggs, owner (Det Tigers), dies at 74
Jan 18th - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
Jan 20th - Arthur Farwell, composer, dies at 74
Jan 22nd - Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52
Jan 25th - Sveinn Bjornsson, Danish 1st pres of Iceland (1944-52), dies at 70
Jan 26th - Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87
Jan 26th - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
Feb 2nd - Charles De Roche, actor (10 Commandments), dies at 72
Feb 2nd - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer, dies at 79
Feb 5th - Reginald Allen, cricketer (uncle of Gubby, Test Aust v Eng 1887), dies
Feb 6th - George VI, King of Britain (1936-52), dies at 56
Feb 9th - Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies
Feb 10th - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
Feb 13th - Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71
Feb 13th - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
Feb 14th - Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
Feb 16th - Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies
Feb 19th - Knut Hamsun, writer, dies at 92
Feb 19th - Lawrence Grant, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 82
Feb 27th - Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74
Mar 1st - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
Mar 4th - Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
Mar 5th - Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer, dies at 63
Mar 7th - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
Mar 11th - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
Mar 21st - Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed
Mar 22nd - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
Mar 23rd - Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, dies at 61
Mar 31st - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
Apr 2nd - Bernard F Lyot, Fren astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55
Apr 5th - Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75
Apr 5th - Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1871)
Apr 11th - Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76
Apr 13th - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79
Apr 21st - Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61
Apr 21st - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62
Apr 23rd - Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies
Apr 23rd - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer, dies at 60
Apr 23rd - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
Apr 24th - Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57
Apr 24th - Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82
Apr 26th - Charles L Baars, Dutch actor (Women Tamers), dies at 59
Apr 27th - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
Apr 30th - Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer, dies
May 1st - William Fox, [Fried], US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73
May 6th - Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60
Educator Maria Montessori (May 6th) May 6th - Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81
May 8th - William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879)
May 9th - Canada Lee, black actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in NYC at 45
May 11th - Giovanni Tebaldini, composer, dies at 87
May 15th - Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84
May 15th - Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76
May 16th - Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v South Africa 1892), dies
May 18th - Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer, dies at 86
May 21st - John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39
May 23rd - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85
May 26th - Damaso Alonso, Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios), dies at 55
May 31st - Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies
Jun 1st - John Dewey, US philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92
Jun 9th - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
Jun 12th - Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83
Jun 13th - Max Pulver, writer, dies
Jun 15th - Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70
Jun 16th - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
Jun 17th - Alberto Williams, Argentine composer (Etrerno Reposo), dies at 89
Jun 17th - Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
Jun 18th - Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63
Jun 19th - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
Jun 20th - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
Jun 24th - Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84
Jun 27th - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
Jul 2nd - Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer, dies at 56
Jul 3rd - Daniel Zamudio, composer, dies at 64
Jul 3rd - Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies
Jul 4th - Walter Long, dies at 73
Jul 6th - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
Jul 10th - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer, dies at 58
Jul 15th - Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother dies in a car accident
Jul 18th - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
Jul 18th - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
Jul 22nd - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer, dies at 49
Jul 22nd - August Balthazar, Belgian politician, dies at 58
Jul 25th - Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43
Actress/First Lady Eva Peron-Duarte (Jul 26th) Jul 26th - Eva Peron-Duarte, Argentina's 1st lady, dies at 33
Jul 27th - Roland Pope, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
Jul 27th - W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies
Jul 31st - N B F "Tufty" Mann, cricketer (South African slow lefty 1947-51), dies
Aug 5th - Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)
Aug 11th - Riccardo Martin, composer, dies at 77
Aug 12th - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
Aug 16th - Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
Aug 18th - Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show), dies at 43
Aug 18th - Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
Aug 20th - Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies
Aug 21st - Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies
Aug 30th - Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pirates & Dodgers), drowns
Aug 31st - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
Sep 6th - Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer, dies at 54
Sep 6th - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (b. 1898)
Sep 9th - Joseph Allen Sr, dies
Sep 10th - Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
Sep 18th - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
Sep 19th - Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies
Sep 22nd - Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62
Sep 22nd - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
Sep 26th - George Santayana, US philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
Sep 28th - Paul Hastings Allen, composer, dies at 68
Sep 29th - John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
Sep 30th - Waldorf Astor, House of Lords & Commons/owner of Observer, dies
Oct 3rd - Alfred Neumann, German writer, dies at 56
Oct 5th - Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884 or 1885)
Oct 8th - Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
Oct 20th - Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55
Oct 23rd - Susan Peters, actress (Random Harvest), dies at 31
Oct 24th - Frederick Jacobi, composer, dies at 61
Oct 25th - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer, dies at 75
Oct 26th - Hattie McDaniel, American singer and actress (b. 1895)
Oct 28th - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
Oct 31st - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
Nov 2nd - Maire O'Neill, actress (Juno & the Paycock, Glamorous Night), dies
Nov 8th - Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for South Africa), dies
Nov 9th - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
Nov 9th - Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (b. 1886)
Nov 18th - Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
Nov 20th - Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86
Nov 21st - Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82
Nov 21st - William Green, union chairman (AFL 1924-52), dies at 79
Nov 23rd - Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59
Nov 23rd - Albert van Raalte, conductor (Radio Philharmonic Orch), dies at 62
Nov 25th - Antonio Guarnieri, composer, dies at 72
Nov 25th - Jean-Fernand Vaubourgoin, composer, dies at 71
Nov 26th - Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
Nov 29th - Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies
Nov 29th - Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian/US chemist, dies at 85
Dec 1st - Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92
Dec 4th - Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67
Dec 8th - Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
Dec 12th - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
Dec 19th - Harry Makepeace, cricketer (cricket & soccer intl for England), dies
Dec 24th - Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58
Dec 26th - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59