List of Famous people who died in 1952

Dora Diamant is best remembered as the lover of the writer Franz Kafka and the person who kept some of his last writings in her possession until they were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933. This retention was against the wishes of Kafka, who had requested shortly before his death that they be destroyed.

Richard Ernst Wilhelm Otto was a German physician and bacteriologist, who served as director of the Paul Ehrlich Institute until 1948.

Karel Lamač was a Czech film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and singer. He directed more than 100 films in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Robert Milton Leach was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Franklin, New Hampshire on April 2, 1879. He attended the public schools, Phillips Academy and Dartmouth College. He moved to Taunton, Massachusetts in 1900 and engaged in the chain-store furniture business in New England.

Sunao Tawara was a Japanese pathologist known for the discovery of the atrioventricular node.

Maurice De Waele was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.