List of Famous people who died at 52

Cemil Usta was a Turkish football player who played as a leftback. A one-club man, Usta solely represented Trabzonspor at a senior level and was a long-time captain of the team in their golden age. Usta twice represented the Turkey national football team. Usta was nicknamed Dozer.

Margot Mahler (1948–1997) was a German film and television actress. She appeared in a number of sex comedies during the 1970s.

Ronald Lee Ridenhour was a young GI who served in the 11th Infantry Brigade during the Vietnam War, and played a central role in spurring the investigation of the Mỹ Lai massacre.

Ahmet Piriştina was a Turkish politician who was Mayor of İzmir from 1999 to 2004. He was of Albanian descent.

Alfred Kotey was a Ghanaian professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2012. He held the WBO bantamweight title from 1994 to 1995 and at regional level the Commonwealth flyweight title from 1989 to 1990. As an amateur he represented Ghana at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Suimenkul Chokmorov was a Kyrgyz film actor born in Chong-Tash village, Kirghiz SSR. In 1964 he graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Arts and later taught painting and composition at the Arts School of Frunze. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.

Valery Nikolaevich Skoptsov, known as The Villain of all Trades, was a Russian criminal and serial killer, who was known for committing a variety of crimes around the USSR and then after Russia, ranging from thefts to murders.

Kāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi, was an Iranian photojournalist and artist. In 1988 he took the first pictures of the aftermath of the Halabja chemical attack during the Iran–Iraq War.

Diana Denyse Hay, 23rd Countess of Erroll was a Scottish noblewoman.

K. K. Haridas was an Indian film director in Malayalam cinema. His best known works are Vadhu Doctoranu, Kakkakum Poochakkum Kalyanam and Kinnam Katta Kallan.