page_title: 1952
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1952 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Official Photographic Portrait of first Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka),Rt.Hon Don Stephen Senanayaka-served from 1947 to until his untimely death in 1952
context_page_description: 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: March 1
  Masao Kume, Japanese playwright, novelist and poet (b. 1891)
  Gregory La Cava, American film director (b. 1892)
  March 2 – Ole E. Benson, American politician (b. 1866)
  March 3 – Antonieta de Barros, Brazilian journalist and politician (b. 1901)
  March 5 – Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
  March 7 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
  March 9 – Alexandra Kollontai, Russian revolutionary (b. 1872)
  March 12
  Hugh Herbert, American actor and comedian (b. 1887)
  Duke Siegfried August in Bavaria (b. 1876)
  March 13 – Võ Thị Sáu, Vietnamese schoolgirl (b. 1933)
  March 18 – Isaak Mazepa, Soviet politician (b. 1884)
  March 19 – Robert Guérin, French administrator, 1st President of FIFA (b. 1876)
  March 21 – Andries Jan Pieters, Dutch criminal (b. 1916)
  March 22
  Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
  Don Stephen Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1884)
  March 26 – J.P. McGowan, Australian actor and director (b. 1880)
  March 28 – Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1876)
  March 30 – Sir Jigme Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1905)
  March 31
  Bo McMillin, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
  Walter Schellenberg, German Nazi intelligence official (b. 1910)
  Roland West, American film director (b. 1885)
  Wallace H. White, Jr., U.S. Senator from Maine (b. 1877)
caption: Don Stephen Senanayake
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