- Sep 2 Earl Pomeroy, (Rep-D-North Dakota)
- Sep 9 Angela Cartwright, England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
- Sep 9 Lee M Morin, cmdr USN/astronaut, born in Manchester, New Hampshire
- Sep 10 Gerry Conway, Marvel comics writer (Punisher), born in New York City
- Sep 10 Vic Toews, Canadian politician, born in Filadelfia, Paraguay
- Sep 19 Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish politician (Member of the European Parliament), born in Ystad, Skåne County, Sweden
- Sep 21 Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
- Sep 22 Robert W Goodlatte, (Rep-R-Virginia)
- Sep 24 Joseph P. Kennedy II, American politician (Rep-D-Massachusetts 1987-99), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Sep 25 Bell Hooks [Gloria Jean Watkins], American author, feminist, scholar and social activist, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky
- Sep 27 Doemitri Dorin Prunariu, Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40)
- Sep 27 Didier Dubois, French mathematician
- Sep 29 R A Hodges, archaeologist
- Sep 29 Max Sandlin, American politician
About September 1952
How Old? 68 years old
Generation: Baby Boomer
Leap Year: Yes