page_title: 1952
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1952 / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of George VI&#32;(1895&#8211;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: February 2
  João Guilherme Fischer, Brazilian diplomat and scientist (b. 1876)
  Charles de Rochefort, French actor (b. 1879)
  Patriarch Callistratus of Georgia (b. 1866)
  February 3 – Harold L. Ickes, United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874)
  February 4 – Federico Henríquez y Carvajal, Dominican writer (b. 1848)
  February 6
  Ioan Carlaonț, Romanian general (b. 1885)
  King George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
  February 7
  Sebastião da Gama, Portuguese poet (b. 1924)
  Philip G. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
  Pete Henry, American football player (Canton Bulldogs) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1897)
  February 9 – Arthur Hayes-Sadler, British admiral (b. 1865)
  February 11 – Matija Murko, Yugoslav scholar (b. 1861)
  February 14
  Molly Malone, American actress (b. 1888)
  John Sheehan, American actor (b. 1885)
  February 15 – Enzo de Muro Lomanto, Italian tenor (b. 1902)
  February 17 – Edvige Carboni, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, mystic and venerable (b. 1880)
  February 18 – Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (b. 1901)
  February 19
  Lawrence Grant, British actor (b. 1870)
  Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
  February 20 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, 28th President of Ecuador (b. 1888)
  February 21 – Francis Xavier Ford, American Roman Catholic bishop, missionary, servant of God and reverend (b. 1892)
  February 24 – Tadeusz Vetulani, Polish agriculturalist (b. 1897)
  February 26
  Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, dictator and President of Greece (b. 1878)
  Josef Thorak, Austrian-born German sculptor (b. 1889)
  February 27 – Helena Concannon, Irish historian, writer, scholar and politician (b. 1878)
  February 28 - Albert Forster, Gauleiter of Danzig during WW2 executed for war crimes (b. 1902)
  February 29 – Quo Tai-chi, Chinese diplomat (b. 1888)
caption: King George VI
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