Editing 1952 (section)

===December===
[[File:VittorioEmanuelleOrlando28379v.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Vittorio Emanuele Orlando]]]]
[[File:Karen Horney 1938.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Karen Horney]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Vittorio Emanuele Orlando]], Italian statesman, 23rd [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1860]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Vladimír Clementis]], Czechoslovak minister, politician, publicist, literary critic and author (b. [[1902]])
* [[December 4]] 
** [[Giuseppe Antonio Borgese]], Italian writer and journalist (b. [[1882]])
** [[Karen Horney]], German psychoanalyst (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Charles Lightoller]], British merchant marine officer, second officer of [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] (b. [[1874]])
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Billy Cook (criminal)|Billy Cook]], American criminal (b. [[1928]])
** [[Bedřich Hrozný|Bedrich Hrozný]], Czech orientalist and linguist (b. [[1879]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Teixeira de Pascoaes]], Portuguese poet (b. [[1877]])
** [[Fartein Valen]], Norwegian composer (b. [[1887]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Ernst Stromer]], German paleontologist (b. [[1871]])
* [[December 25]] 
** [[Bernardino Molinari]], Italian conductor (b. [[1880]])
** [[Herman Sörgel]], German architect (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Henri Winkelman]], Dutch general (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[Carlo Agostini]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] prelate and reverend (b. [[1871]])
** [[Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]], Queen consort of [[Christian X of Denmark]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Fletcher Henderson]], American musician (b. [[1897]])