* 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 )

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

* 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

The couple were married for 50 years and had five children: Martha ( 1828 ), Charles ( 1830 ), Mary ( 1832 ), Robert ( 1834 ), and Andrew Jr. ( 1852 ).

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

* 1924 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer ( b. 1852 )

* Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House ( 1852 )

* 1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer ( d. 1924 )

In 1852 he entered The Royal Academy of Antwerp where he studied early Dutch and Flemish art, under Egide Charles Gustave Wappers.

* Charles Villiers Stanford ( 1852 – 1924 ), Irish composer

* June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice President of the U. S. ( b. 1852 )

* October 31 – Charles Taze Russell, Protestant evangelist, forerunner of Jehovah's Witnesses ( b. 1852 )

In the foreground, he has grouped the leading statesmen from the Lords: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 ), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 ) and the Whiggy ( British political faction ) | Whigs on the left ; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) and the Tories ( political faction ) | Tories on the right.

It was led by the artist and writer William Morris ( 1834 – 1896 ) and the architect Charles Voysey ( 1857 – 1941 ) during the 1860s, and was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ) and Augustus Pugin ( 1812 – 1852 ).

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

In the United Kingdom, Charles Frederick Field set up an enquiry office upon his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1852.

Charles Dickens provides a very graphical depiction of the death of the shopkeeper Mr. Krook by spontaneous combustion in his novel Bleak House ( 1852 ).

It was known until 1852 as " Boola Boola ", after which it was named after the surveyor and explorer Charles Tyers.

In 1852 the British Museum sent the archaeologist Charles Thomas Newton to search for more remains of the Mausoleum.

Charles Taze Russell ( February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916 ), or Pastor Russell, was a prominent early 20th century Christian restorationist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and founder of what is now known as the Bible Student movement, from which Jehovah's Witnesses and numerous independent Bible Student groups emerged after his death.

Charles Taze Russell was born to Scottish-Irish parents, immigrant Joseph Lytel () Russell ( d. December 17, 1897 ) and Ann Eliza Birney ( d. January 25, 1861 ), on February 16, 1852 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.

" Charles Francis Adams, the American minister to Britain during the war, argued later that " Uncle Tom's Cabin ; or Life among the Lowly, published in 1852, exercised, largely from fortuitous circumstances, a more immediate, considerable and dramatic world-influence than any other book ever printed.

In the 1840s, the Universalist church wanted to open a college in New England, and in 1852, Charles Tufts donated 20 acres to the church to help them achieve this goal.

* Charles N. Fowler ( 1852 – 1932 ), represented 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1911.

* 1852 Bremen seaman Charles Henry Nimitz, grandfather of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, builds the Nimitz Hotel in Frederickburg.