List of Famous people who died in 1952

Wilhelm Schäfer was a German writer.

Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland. He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and wrote the Stroop Report, a book-length account of the operation. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine US prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity.

Armin Eduard Gustav Tschermak, Edler von Seysenegg was an Austrian physiologist. He was an elder son of the Moravia-born mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg. He was instrumental in helping his botanist-brother Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg in the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of genetics. He was Professor of Physiology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and the Institute of Physiology in Prague. He was elected member to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on 28 October 1936.

Archduke Maximilian of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg and the younger brother of the Emperor Charles I of Austria. From 10 April 1919, according to republican Austrian law, his name was Maximilian Eugen Habsburg-Lothringen.

Emilie Louise Flöge was an Austrian fashion designer, and businesswoman. She was the life companion of the painter Gustav Klimt.

Axel Johannes Malmquist was a Swedish mathematician working in the area of ordinary differential equations.

Philip G. Epstein was an American screenwriter most known for his screenplay for the film Casablanca (1942), which won an Academy Award. He had written it in partnership with his twin brother Julius and Howard Koch as an adaptation of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's, written by Murray Bennett and Joan Alison.