* 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

* 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 – 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 ).

* July 31 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1752 )

It was named for Gabriel Johnston, Governor of North Carolina from 1734 to 1752.

It is named after Gabriel Cramer ( 1704 – 1752 ), who published the rule for an arbitrary number of unknowns in 1750, although Colin Maclaurin also published special cases of the rule in 1748 ( and probably knew of it as early as 1729 ).

* Gabriel Cramer ( 1704 – 1752 ), Swiss mathematician, discoverer of Cramer's rule

Gabriel Cramer (; 31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752 ) was a Swiss mathematician, born in Geneva.

It was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, and construction began in 1752 on the grounds of the farm of Grenelle, but the school did not open until 1760.

In 1785, she married with Infante Gabriel of Spain ( 1752 – 88 ) whom she pedeceased by some weeks.

* John Gabriel Jones ( 1752 – 1776 ), colonial American pioneer and politician

Eden's daughter Penelope married Gabriel Johnston, the colonial governor of North Carolina from 1734 to 1752.

Gabriel Johnston ( 1699 – August 1752 ) was the colonial governor of North Carolina from 1734 to 1752, the longest-serving governor in state history.

* 1752 – James Morris III, American army officer ( d. 1820 )

The " Catawaba tribe in 1752 showed great anger and bitter resentment when an African American came among them as a trader.

* 1752 – George Rogers Clark, American military leader ( d. 1818 )

Great Britain and its American colonies reformed in 1752, where Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was immediately followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752 ; they were joined by the last Protestant holdout, Sweden, on 1 March 1753.

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 ).

* Nathaniel Rochester ( 1752 – 1831 ), American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, founder of Rochester, New York

* February 13 – George Rogers Clark, American Revolutionary leader ( b. 1752 )

* January 30 – Betsy Ross, Made the first American flag ( b. 1752 )

* November 8 – Gouverneur Morris, American statesman ( b. 1752 )

* William Badger ( shipbuilder ) ( 1752 – 1830 ), American shipbuilder in Kittery, Maine

The first professional performances of King Lear in North America are likely to have been those of the Hallam Company ( later the American Company ) which arrived in Virginia in 1752 and who counted the play among their repertoire by the time of their departure for Jamaica in 1774.

Introduced to the UK in 1752, it was noted that the foliage of the American elm was far more susceptible to insect damage than native elms.

Established in 1752, the Midway Congregational Church building was destroyed during the American Revolutionary War by the British, but it was rebuilt.

* Philip Freneau ( 1752 – 1832 ), poet during the American Revolutionary War.

Timothy Dwight ( May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817 ) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author.

Before 1752, when Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg of the Moravian Church visited The Blowing Rock, the windy cliffs of the area were home to the Cherokee and the Catawba Native American tribes.

* Jacob Broom ( 1752 – 1810 ), American businessman and politician

* May 20-William Bradford, printer in the American colonies ( died 1752 )

William Washington ( February 28, 1752 to March 6, 1810 ), was an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, who held a final rank of Brigadier General in the newly created United States after the war.

** Abraham Wood, early American composer ( b. 1752 )