* 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

* 1721 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman ( b. 1652 )

* 1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( d. 1719 )

Camille d ' Hostun, duc de Tallard | Marshal Tallard ( 1652 – 1728 ).

* Philip Michael Ellis ( 1652 – 1726 )

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

John Cotton ( 1585 – 1652 )

* 1652 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician ( d. 1723 )

Gregorio Allegri ( 1582 – 17 February 1652 ) was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri ; he was also a priest and a singer.

This post later became a fully-fledged colony, the Cape Colony ( 1652 – 1806 ).

* 1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.

* 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House ( d. 1652 )

Count Johann von Werth ( 1591 – September 12, 1652 ), also Jan von Werth or in French Jean de Werth, was a German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years ' War.

John Radcliffe ( 1652 – 1714 ) was an English physician.

* Hone, Campbell R. ( 1950 ) The Life of Dr. John Radcliffe, 1652 – 1714, Benefactor of the University of Oxford.

* 1597 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician ( d. 1652 )

* 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.

This gave rise to a charge of heresy, of which he was acquitted at the national synod held at Alençon in 1637, and presided over by Benjamin Basnage ( 1580 – 1652 ).

* 1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer ( d. 1652 )

* 1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( b. 1652 )

* 1652 – Antonio Coello, Spanish writer ( b. 1611 )

At the request of the Venetian Republic, Ottoboni was made Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro by Pope Innocent X ( 1644 – 55 ) in 1652, and was later given the bishopric of Brescia, in Venetian territory, where he quietly spent the best years of middle life.

Pope Clement XII ( 7 April 1652 – 6 February 1740 ), born Lorenzo Corsini, was Pope from 12 July 1730 to 6 February 1740.

* February 6 – Pope Clement XII ( b. 1652 )

In 1652, the escalating situation was further complicated by the appearance in Mylapore of a mysterious figure named Ahatallah, who claimed to have been sent by the Pope to serve as " Patriarch of the Whole of India and of China ".

* March 1 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician ( d. 1652 )

* July 15 – Inigo Jones, English architect ( d. 1652 )

** Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer ( d. 1652 )

* March 13 – Georges de La Tour, French painter ( d. 1652 )

** John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary ( d. 1652 )

* October 22 – Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d ' Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, prince of the independent principality of Sedan ( d. 1652 )

* November 1 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer ( d. 1652 )

* December 4 – John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts ( d. 1652 )

* January 12 – Giuseppe Ribera, Spanish painter ( d. 1652 )

* June 20 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman ( d. 1652 )

** Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer ( d. 1652 )

** Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading, royalist commander in the English Civil War ( d. 1652 )

* October 12 – Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony ( d. 1652 )

File: Frans Hals-Portrait d ' Isabella Coymans. jpg | Isabella Coymans, wife of Stephan Geraedts, 1652, Private Collection.

** Jean Gaston d ' Orléans, ( 1650 – 1652 ), Duke of Valois,

** Marie Anne d ' Orléans, ( 1652 – 1656 ), Mademoiselle de Chartres

* Peyton de Carteret ( d. September 1652 ), drowned with Prince Maurice.