German pedagogue (b. 1782) June 29 – Henry Clay, American statesman (b. 1777) July–December July 20 – José Antonio Estudillo, early California settler (b. 1805) August – Táhirih, Iranian Baha'i theologian, poet and feminist (b. 1814) August 14 – Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (b. 1788) August 24 – Sarah Guppy, English inventor (b. 1770) September 4 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796) September 8 – Anna Maria Walker, Scottish botanist (b. 1778) September 14 Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and political figure, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769) September 20 – Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (b. 1775) October 7 – Sir Edward Troubridge, 2nd Baronet, British admiral (b. ca. 1787) October 13 – John Lloyd Stephens, American traveler, diplomat and Mayanist archaeologist (b. 1805) October 15 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German gymnastics educator (b. 1778) October 23 – Georg August Wallin, Finnish orientalist, explorer and professor (b. 1811) October 24 – Daniel Webster, American statesman (b. 1782) October 25 – John C. Clark, American politician (b. 1793) October 26 – Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher (b. 1801) November 2 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian military hero (b. 1782) November 10 – Gideon Mantell, English geologist, palaeontologist (b. 1790) November 17 – Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer, German philosopher (b. 1768) November 18 – John Andrew Shulze, American politician (b. 1775) November 27 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer (b. 1815) November 29 – Nicolae Bălcescu, Wallachian revolutionary (b. 1819) November 30 – Junius Brutus Booth, English-born stage actor, father of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth (b. 1796) December 16 – Andries Hendrik Potgieter, Voortrekker leader (b. 1792) date unknown – Joanna Żubr, Polish soldier (b. 1770) References Further reading highly detailed coverage of events of 1852 in British Empire and worldwide. Leap years in the Gregorian calendar