Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1852
Birthdays
- January 1 - Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)
- January 8 - James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
- January 11 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
- January 12 - Joseph Joffre, French general (d. 1931)
- January 26 - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (d. 1905)
- February 24 - George Moore, Irish writer (d. 1933)
- February 26 - John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon
- February 29 - Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian judge (d. 1936)
- March 1 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)
- March 15 - Augusta, Lady Gregory
- April 11 - Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)
- April 12 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (d. 1939)
- April 13 - F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
- April 22 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
- May 1 - Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
- May 1 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist
- May 4 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
- May 11 - Charles W. Fairbanks, United States Vice President (d. 1918)
- May 25 - William Muldoon, wrestler (d. 1933)
- May 31 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
- June 25 - Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
- July 12 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
- August 23 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
- August 23 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
- August 24 - Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1919)
- August 30 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
- September 2 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
- September 8 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea, (d. 1919)
- September 10 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
- September 12 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
- September 15 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
- September 23 - William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
- September 28 - Henri Moissan, French chemist
- October 2 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916)
- October 9 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist
- November 3 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)
- November 11 - Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
- November 15 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (d. 1892)
- November 21 - Francisco Tárrega, father of modern classical guitar (d. 1909)
- November 22 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat
- December 4 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)
- December 15 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist
- December 19 - Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist
Deaths
- January 6 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
- January 25 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
- February 25 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
- March 4 - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
- April 21 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
- April 24 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
- June 11 - Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
- June 29 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
- July 9 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
- July 22 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
- August 15 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)
- September 4 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
- September 14 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
- September 14 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- September 20 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
- September 22 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
- October 11 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
- October 24 - Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
- October 25 - John C. Clark, American politician (b. 1793)
- November 2 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
- November 18 - Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic nun and French saint,
- November 27 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
- November 28 - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
Events
- January 17 - The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
- February 15 - Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.
- February 16 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
- February 19 - The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
- March 1 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- March 20 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
- March 26 - Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
- May 1 - The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
- July 3 - Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
- August 3 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
- August 21 - Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
- September 24 - The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
- October 11 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
- November 4 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
- November 18 - Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
- December 2 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French.
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