* Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), the first computer programmer

* 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman ( d. 1852 )

* 1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician ( d. 1939 )

Mackenzie married Helen Neil ( 1826 – 1852 ) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.

* 1852 – Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard.

Gaudi, 1852 – 1926, Antoni Gaudi i Cornet-A Life Devoted to Architecture.

* 1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician ( d. 1852 )

* 1852 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.

* 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge ( d. 1852 )

* 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian ( d. 1883 )

* 1852 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia ( d. 1913 )

* 1852 – At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam – God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.

* 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1911 )

* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ), Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman

* 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian educator and nationalist ( d. 1852 )

* Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary ( May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903 ), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.

Emil Sioli ( 1852 – 1922 ) was the dean of the asylum.

Later in the century, Charles Villiers Stanford ( 1852 – 1924 ) used symphonic techniques to produce a more concise and unified structure.

* 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general ( b. 1787 )

* 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet ( b. 1783 )

* Platine War ( 1851 – 1852 ): The Brazilian Empire and its allies went to war against the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas of the Argentine Confederation.

The Earl of Derby, Prime Minister 1852, 1858 – 59, 1866 – 68

* Cap Anson ( 1852 – 1922 ), American baseball player

* Cap Anson ( 1852 – 1922 ), Major League Baseball Hall of Famer

* 1852 – 1853 — Major-General George Anson

* 1775 – Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College ( d. 1852 )

* 1852 – Daniel De Leon, South American socialist ( d. 1914 )

Edwin Austin Abbey ( April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911 ) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter.

* 1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and advocate ( d. 1943 )

In the decades of 1840 and 1850 Honduras participated in several failed attempts to restore Central American unity, such as the Confederation of Central America ( 1842 – 1845 ), the covenant of Guatemala ( 1842 ), the Diet of Sonsonate ( 1846 ), the Diet of Nacaome ( 1847 ) and National Representation in Central America ( 1849 – 1852 ).

* 1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author ( d. 1931 )

His parents were Henry Kern ( 1842 – 1908 ), a Jewish German immigrant, and Fannie Kern née Kakeles ( 1852 – 1907 ), who was an American Jew of Bohemian parentage.

* 1852 – Jenny Lind left New York after her wildly successful two-year American tour.

* 1852 – Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer ( d. 1934 )

* 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American politician, 26th United States Vice President ( d. 1918 )

Eugene Bourdon patented his gauge in France in 1849, and it was widely adopted because of its superior sensitivity, linearity, and accuracy ; Edward Ashcroft purchased Bourdon's American patent rights in 1852 and became a major manufacturer of gauges.

* 1938 – George Foster Peabody, American politician ( b. 1852 )

* 1794 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior ( d. 1852 )

* 1805 – John Stephens, American archeologist ( d. 1852 )

* 1852 – William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon ( d. 1922 )

* 1852 – Alice Brown Davis, American chief of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma ( d. 1935 )

* 1852 – Edward Bouchet, American physicist ( d. 1918 )

** Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter ( b. 1852 )

* December 14 – John Harvey Kellogg, American doctor ( b. 1852 )

* August 1 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman ( b. 1852 )

* April 8 – Franklin Winfield Woolworth, American businessman ( born 1852 )

* November 30 – Eugene W. Chafin, American politician ( b. 1852 )