* 1752 – Maria Carolina of Austria ( d. 1814 )

* 1727 – Princess Henriette of France ( d. 1752 )

* Alexander V of Imereti ( c. 1703 / 4 – 1752 )

* 1752 – Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in Burmese Civil War ( 1740 – 1757 )

Betsy Ross ( January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836 ) is widely credited with making the first American flag.

* François Cabarrus ( 1752 – 1810 ), French adventurer and Spanish financier.

**** House of Bourbon-Braganza ( 1752 – 1979 ), also called Borbón y Braganza or Branch of the Infant Gabriel

* 1752 – Gabriel Duvall, American jurist, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1844 )

* 1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician ( d. 1752 )

* 1752 – King Alaungpaya founds Konbaung Dynasty, the last dynasty of Burmese monarchy

* 1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.

* 1752 – Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist ( b. 1722 )

Giulio Alberoni ( 30 May 1664 OS – 26 June NS 1752 ) was an Italian cardinal and

* Adrien Marie Legendre 1752 – 1833, Paris ( France )

The method is based on the individual work of Carl Friedrich Gauss ( 1777 – 1855 ) and Adrien-Marie Legendre ( 1752 – 1833 ) combined with modern algorithms for multiplication and square roots.

* 1752 – Fanny Burney, English novelist ( d. 1840 )

* 1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor and merchant, invented the Jacquard loom ( d. 1834 )

John Graves Simcoe ( February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806 ) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 – 1796.

* 1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician ( d. 1839 )

* 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity ( traditional date, the exact date is unknown ).

After his return to England in 1750, he made three further voyages as captain of the slave-trading ships Duke of Argyle ( 1750 ) and African ( 1752 – 1753 and 1753 – 1754 ).

Lord Hardwicke saw a copy in Somers's handwriting amongst his manuscripts before they were destroyed by fire in 1752.

A fire at the law offices of Charles Yorke in Lincoln's Inn Square on 27 January 1752 destroyed a large amount of Somers ' surviving private papers.

Perpetual insurance, first issued in the U. S. in Philadelphia in 1752, is still used for fire and homeowner's insurance.

In 1752, he and his family, now including two daughters, moved to Ipswich.

Francesco travelled to England to 1752, where his decorative talent resulted in diverse work, including the design of tapestries with the weaver Paul Saunders at Holkham Hall.

Although Quantz wrote many pieces of music, mainly for the flute ( including around 300 flute concertos and 200 + sonatas ), he is best known today as the author of Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen ( 1752 ) ( titled On Playing the Flute in English ), a treatise on traverso flute playing.

), later set to music by more than 40 other composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse ( 1735 ), Giuseppe Arena ( 1738 ), Francesco Corradini ( 1747 ), Christoph Willibald Gluck ( 1752 ), Andrea Adolfati ( 1753 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1753 ), Ignaz Holzbauer ( 1757 ), Vincenzo Legrezio Ciampi ( 1757 ), Gioacchino Cocchi ( 1760 ), Marcello Bernardini ( 1768 ), Andrea Bernasconi ( 1768 ), Pasquale Anfossi ( 1769 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1791 ).

The county of Santa Cruz and the city of Nogales have 200 properties listed in the National Register of Historic Sites, including Tumacacori National Monument visited by Father Kino in 1691 and Tubac Presidio, established by the Spanish in 1752 on an Indian village site.

Puritans migrated to St. John's Parish, Georgia from Dorchester, South Carolina in 1752 and established several settlements including what was later to become the Midway community.

His influence was also transmitted through a host of younger architects trained as pupils in his office, including Thomas Hardwick ( 1752 – 1825 ) who helped him build Somerset House and who wrote his biography.

Not far from these ancient monuments is the new Raetian Museum, which contains an extensive collection of objects relating to Raetia ( including the geological collections of the Benedictine monk of Disentis Abbey, Placidus a Spescha ( 1752 – 1833 ), who explored the high snowy regions around the sources of the Rhine ).

An edition of his works, containing several posthumous tracts, but not including the Life of Cicero, appeared in four volumes in 1752, and in five volumes in 1755.

In 1752 Great Britain, including Scotland, adopted the Gregorian calendar, removing 11 days from the calendar by stipulating that the day following 2 September would be not 3 September but 14 September.

His studio was prodigious and he painted frescoes for the Church of Santa Chiara ( 1752 – 1754 ), five canvases for the Chapel in Caserta Palace ( now lost ), as well as many others including for the Benedictines of Aversa ( 1761 ), a History of Saint Francis of Paola for the Sanctuary of Saint Maria di Pozzano of Castellammare di Stabia ( 1762 – 1763 ), and many other altarpieces.

In 1752 he published a two volume translation of the Latin book De Rebus Emanuelis, that was by a 16th century Portuguese Bishop Jerome Osorio da Fonseca, his English title was The History of the Portuguese during the Reign of Emanuel and is a history book with accounts of warfare, voyages of discovery from Africa to China including descriptions of the religious beliefs of these countries and also the initial colonisation of Brazil.

Phanariote rulers consecrated several major places of worship, including, among others, the Văcăreşti Monastery ( 1720 ), a monumental late-Byzantine site, the Stavropoleos Church ( 1724 )-both built under Nicholas Mavrocordatos -, Popa Nan ( 1719 ), Domniţa Bălaşa ( 1751 ), the one in Pantelimon ( 1752 ), Schitu Măgureanu ( 1756 ), Icoanei ( 1786 ), and Amzei ( ca. 1808 ).

In 1752, the Tanolis allied with the Afghan Emperor Ahmad Shah Abdali and took part in military conquests, including the Battle of Panipat in 1761, under their chief Zabardast Khan Tanoli who was given the title of " Suba Khan " by Ahmad Shah Baba for his bravery.

* March 18 – Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister ( d. 1752 )

* December 18 – Philip Morin Freneau, poet and journalist ( b. 1752 )

* May 18 – Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher ( d. 1752 )

John Nash ( 18 January 1752 – 13 May 1835 ) was a British architect responsible for much of the layout of Regency London under the patronage of George IV first as Prince Regent then king.

His tombstone is dated April 18, 1752, and is one of the oldest tombstones in the state.

* April 18 – Edward Jones, royal harpist ( born 1752 )

* 4 February 1752 – 18 November 1785 His Serene Highness the Duke of Chartres ( Monseigneur le duc de Chartres )

* 4 August 1752 – 18 November 1785 His Serene Highness the Duke of Orléans ( Monseigneur le duc d ' Orléans )

* Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière was appointed governor general of New France on March 1, 1746, ( b April 18, 1685 – d March 17, 1752 )

Ralph Erskine ( 18 March 1685 – 6 November 1752 ) was a Scottish churchman.

Philip Morin Freneau ( January 2, 1752 – December 18, 1832 ) was an American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor sometimes called the " Poet of the American Revolution ".

In an 18 year career, Lollar played in 1752 games, accumulating 1, 415 hits in 5, 351 at bats for a. 264 career batting average along with 155 home runs, 808 runs batted in.

He is the author of Supplement au dictionnaire de Morri ( 1735 ), and a Nouveau Supplement to a subsequent edition of the work ; he collaborated in Bibliothèque française, ou histoire littéraire de la France ( 18 vols, Paris, 1740 – 1759 ); and in the Vies des saints ( 7 vols, 1730 ); he also wrote Mémoires historiques et littéraires sur le collège royal de France ( 1758 ); Histoire des Inquisitions ( Paris, 1752 ); and supervised an edition of César-Pierre Richelet's Dictionnaire, of which he has also given an abridgment.

Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon KT ( 18 June 1743 – 17 June 1827 ), styled Marquess of Huntly until 1752, was a Scottish nobleman, described by Kaimes as the " greatest subject in Britain ", and was also known as the Cock o ' the North, the traditional epithet attached to the chief of the Gordon clan.

Ebenezer Elmer ( August 23, 1752 – October 18, 1843 ) was an American physician from Bridgeton, New Jersey.

Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin, sometimes spelled Kourakine (; January 18, 1752 – June 24, 1818 ) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, a member of the State Council ( from 1810 ), ranked Actual Privy Counsellor 1st Class ( see Table of Ranks ).