List of Famous people who died at 52

Christopher Reeve

First Name Christopher
Last Name Reeve
Born on September 25, 1952
Died on October 10, 2004 (aged 52)
Height 192 cm | 6'4

Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, director, and activist, best known for playing the main character and title role in the film Superman (1978) and its three sequels.

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John Wayne Gacy

Jonh Wayne Gacy
First Name John
Last Name Gacy
Born on March 17, 1942
Died on May 10, 1994 (aged 52)

John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender known as the Killer Clown who assaulted and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as "Pogo the Clown" or "Patches the Clown", personas he had devised. He was also active in his local community as a Democratic Party precinct captain and building contractor.

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Bob Ross

Robert Norman Ross
First Name Bob
Last Name Ross
Born on October 29, 1942
Died on July 4, 1995 (aged 52)

Robert Norman Ross was an American painter, art instructor and television host. He was the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States and in Canada, Latin America and Europe. Ross subsequently became widely known via his internet presence.

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Luke Perry

Coy Luther Perry III
First Name Luke
Last Name Perry
Born on October 11, 1966
Died on March 4, 2019 (aged 52)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Coy Luther Perry III was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. He also starred as Fred Andrews on the CW series Riverdale. He had guest roles on notable shows which are Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, and Will & Grace, and also starred in several films, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), 8 Seconds (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), his final feature performance.

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Chris Cornell

Christopher John Boyle
First Name Chris
Last Name Cornell
Born on July 20, 1964
Died on May 18, 2017 (aged 52)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Christopher John Cornell was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. He also had a solo career and contributed to soundtracks. Cornell was also the founder and frontman of Temple of the Dog, a one-off tribute band dedicated to his late friend Andrew Wood.

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Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly
First Name Grace
Last Name Kelly
Born on November 12, 1929
Died on September 14, 1982 (aged 52)
Height 169 cm | 5'7

Grace Patricia Kelly was an American film actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956.

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Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison
First Name Roy
Last Name Orbison
Born on April 23, 1936
Died on December 6, 1988 (aged 52)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. His music was described by critics as operatic, earning him the nicknames "the Caruso of Rock" and "the Big O". Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers chose to project defiant masculinity. He was known for his shyness and stage fright, which he countered by wearing dark sunglasses.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa
First Name Frank
Last Name Zappa
Born on December 21, 1940
Died on December 4, 1993 (aged 52)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, film-maker, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.

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Abbie Hoffman

Abbot Howard Hoffman
First Name Abbie
Born on November 30, 1936
Died on April 12, 1989 (aged 52)

Abbot Howard Hoffman, better known as Abbie Hoffman, was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.

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Veerappan

Koose Muniswamy Veerappan
Born on January 18, 1952
Died on October 18, 2004 (aged 52)
Born in India

Koose Munisamy Veerappan was an Indian bandit who was active for 36 years, and who kidnapped major politicians for ransom. He was charged with sandalwood smuggling and poaching of elephants in the scrub lands and forests in the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.

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Velma Barfield

Margie Velma Bullard
First Name Velma
Born on October 29, 1932
Died on November 2, 1984 (aged 52)

Margie Velma Barfield was an American serial killer who was convicted of one murder, but who eventually confessed to six murders in total. Barfield was the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment and the first since 1962. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection.

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Kristoff St. John

First Name Kristoff
Last Name John
Born on July 15, 1966
Died on February 3, 2019 (aged 52)

Kristoff St. John was an American actor. From 1991 to 2019, St. John portrayed the role of Neil Winters on CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, which earned him eleven Daytime Emmy Award nominations, two Emmy Awards, and ten NAACP Image Awards.

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Marvin Heemeyer

First Name Marvin
Last Name Heemeyer
Born on October 28, 1951
Died on June 4, 2004 (aged 52)

Marvin John Heemeyer was an American welder and an automobile muffler repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado on June 4, 2004.

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La Veneno

José Antonio Ortiz Rodríguez
First Name La
Last Name Veneno
Born on March 19, 1964
Died on November 9, 2016 (aged 52)
Born in Spain, Andalusia

Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez (19 March 1964 – 9 November 2016), better known as La Veneno ("Poison"), was a Spanish singer, actress, sex worker and media personality. Considered one of the most important and beloved LGBT icons in Spain, she rose to fame in 1996 after briefly appearing on the late-night talk show Esta noche cruzamos el Mississippi, broadcast on Telecinco between 1995 and 1997 and hosted by the journalist Pepe Navarro. She would later appear regularly on the show as well as on La sonrisa del pelícano.

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Ann Dunham

First Name Ann
Last Name Dunham
Born on November 29, 1942
Died on November 7, 1995 (aged 52)

Stanley Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Dunham was known as Stanley Ann Dunham through high school, then as Ann Dunham, Ann Obama, Ann Soetoro, a.k.a. Ann Sutoro, and resumed her maiden name, Ann Dunham, later in life.

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Caroline Aherne

First Name Caroline
Last Name Aherne
Died on July 2, 2016 (aged 46)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Caroline Mary Aherne was an English comedian, writer and actress, best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton, in various roles in The Fast Show, and as Denise in The Royle Family, a series which she co-wrote. She won BAFTA awards for her work on The Mrs Merton Show and The Royle Family.

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Mamá Tingó

First Name Mamá
Last Name Tingó
Born on November 8, 1921
Died on November 1, 1974 (aged 52)

Mamá Tingó was a Dominican activist leader and defender of the rural farming community in Dominican Republic. She was assassinated fighting against the unjust plunder of the resident farmers’ land in Hato Viejo in Yamasá during the second government under Joaquín Balaguer one of the presidents of the Dominican Republic.

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José Santacruz Londoños

First Name José
Last Name Londoños
Born on October 1, 1943
Died on March 5, 1996 (aged 52)

José Santacruz Londoño, also known as Chepe Santacruz, was a Colombian drug lord. Along with Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Santacruz was a leader of the Cali Cartel.

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Valérie Benguigui

Valérie Clotilde Benguigui
First Name Valérie
Last Name Benguigui
Born on July 8, 1961
Died on September 2, 2013 (aged 52)

Valérie Benguigui was a French actress and theater director. Born in Oran, Algeria, she took acting courses at the Cours Florent and the National Chaillot Theatre School. Her first film role was in Francis Huster's On a volé Charlie Spencer (1986).

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Frank Wills

First Name Frank
Last Name Wills
Born on February 4, 1948
Died on September 27, 2000 (aged 52)

Frank Wills was a security guard best known for his role in foiling the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee inside the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Then 24, Wills called the police after discovering that locks at the complex had been tampered with. Five men were arrested inside the Democratic headquarters, which they had planned to bug. The arrests triggered the Watergate scandal and eventually the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974.

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