* 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 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18, 000 homes.

* 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 ).

* 1752 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer ( b. 1705 )

* 1705 – Francis Blomefield, English historian ( d. 1752 )

* 1692 – Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher ( d. 1752 )

* 1692 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher ( d. 1752 )

* 1688 – William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist ( d. 1752 )

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

* date unknown – John Machin, English mathematician ( d. 1752 )

* May 13 – John Nash, English architect ( b. 1752 )

* December 9 – William Whiston, English mathematician ( d. 1752 )

* July 23 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer ( d. 1752 )

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

Alexander Dalrymple, the Examiner of Sea Journals for the English East India Company, whilst translating some Spanish documents captured in the Philippines in 1752, found de Torres's testimony.

The genus name was given in 1752 by Paul Möhring and adopted as the English common name.

Usually the dates before the introduction of the calendar on 14 September 1752 are mapped in English language histories directly onto the Julian dates without shifting them by 10 or 11 days.

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.

Halifax County was established in 1752 by English colonists from Lunenburg County.

Pharo, the English alternate spelling of Pharaoh, was easy to learn, quick and, when played honestly, the odds for a player were the best of all gambling games, as records Gilly Williams in a letter to George Selwyn in 1752.

Humphry Repton ( 21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818 ) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown ; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the 19th century.

– 16 June 1752 ) was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher.

Laid out in 1794 by Johann Friedrich Reichardt ( 1752 – 1814 ) as an English garden, becoming the “ accommodation of Romanticism ”.

* Joseph Butler ( 1692 – 1752 ) English bishop, theologian, apologist and philosopher who offered critiques of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and influenced figures such as David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith

The Christian hymn " Be Still, My Soul ", written in German (" Stille meine Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen ") in 1752 by Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel ( 1697 – 1768 ) and translated into English in 1855 by Jane Laurie Borthwick ( 1813 – 1897 ), is usually sung to this tune.

He was the son of Lt. William Lewis of Locust Hill ( 1733 – November 17, 1779 ), who was of Welsh ancestry, and Lucy Meriwether ( February 4, 1752 – September 8, 1837 ), daughter of Thomas Meriwether and Elizabeth Thornton who were both of English ancestry.