Famous People Who Died In 1972
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1972. This list includes people like Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Harry S. Truman, Jackie Robinson, J. Edgar Hoover, C. Rajagopalachari and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, poets, emperors & kings and military leaders who died in 1972. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & India and many more countries.
Jackie Robinson31 January 1919, American
Harry S. Truman08 May 1884, American
33rd President of the United States
J. Edgar Hoover01 January 1895, American
First Director of FBI
Roberto Clemente18 August 1934, Puerto Rican
Ezra Pound30 October 1885, American
Poet
M. C. Escher17 June 1898, Dutch
Artist
Kwame Nkrumah21 September 1909, Ghanaian, Romanian
First President of Ghana
George Sanders03 July 1906, Spanish, Russian
Actor
C. Rajagopalachari10 December 1878, Indian
Politician, Independence Activist, Lawyer, Writer
Mahalia Jackson26 October 1911, American
Singer, Television Personality
Saul Alinsky30 January 1909, American
Community Organizer
Margaret Rutherford11 May 1892, British
Actress
Lester B. Pearson23 April 1897, Canadian
14th Prime Minister of Canada
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis29 June 1893, Indian
Statistician
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom23 June 1894, British
King of United Kingdom
Maurice Chevalier12 September 1888, French
Actor, Singer
Walter Winchell07 April 1897, American
Journalist, Radio Personality
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29 November 1908, American
Politician & Civil Rights Activist
Barbara Daly Baekeland1922 AD, American
Socialite
Louis Leakey07 August 1903, Kenyan, British
Paleoanthropologist and Archaeologist
Miriam Hopkins18 October 1902, American
Actress
Oscar Levant27 December 1906, American
American pianist
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck02 May 1929, Bhutanese
Third King of Bhutan
Jamini Roy11 April 1887, Indian
Indian painter
Lillian Moller Gilbreth24 May 1878, American
Mother of Modern Management
Yip Man01 October 1893, Chinese
Martial Artist
Abraham Joshua Heschel11 January 1907, Polish
Rabbi
Maria Goeppert-Mayer28 June 1906, American
Physicist
William Dieterle15 July 1893, German
Actor, Director
Max Theiler30 January 1899, South African
Virologist
Walter Lang10 August 1896, American
Film Director
Edward Calvin Kendall08 March 1886, American
Biochemist
Wesley Ruggles11 June 1889, American
Film Director
Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev11 June 1920, Nepalese
Former King of Nepal
C. Day Lewis27 April 1904, Irish, British
Poet
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Prithviraj Kapoor03 November 1906, Indian, British Indian Ocean Territory
Actor
Joe Gallo07 April 1929, Italian, American
Criminal
Gustav Schwarzenegger17 August 1907, Austrian
Igor Sikorsky25 May 1889, Ukrainian, Russian
Aircraft designer
Cristóbal Balenciaga21 January 1895, Spanish
Designer, Businessperson
Frederick IX of Denmark11 March 1899, Danish
King
Paul Hausser07 October 1880, German
Officer, Military personnel
Emil Maurice19 January 1897, German
Politician
Yasunari Kawabata11 June 1899, Japanese
Novelist
Geeta Dutt23 November 1930, Indian
Actor, Singer
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29 November 1908, American
American Politician
Franz Halder30 June 1884, German
Soldier, Writer, Diarist
Berry Oakley04 April 1948, American
Musician
Talal of Jordan26 February 1909, Jordanian, Saudi Arabian
King
Erhard Milch30 March 1892, German
Politician, Military personnel
Allauddin Khan1862 AD, Bangladeshi
musician, composer, music educator
John Berryman25 October 1914, American
Poet, Writer, University teacher
Sonia Greene16 March 1883, American
Writer
Paul Ricca14 November 1897, American
mobster
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski01 March 1899, German
Politician, Military personnel
Joseph Cornell24 December 1903, American
Film director, Sculptor, Painter
Mahendra of Nepal11 June 1920, Nepalese
Monarch
Mark Van Doren13 June 1894, American
Poet, Autobiographer, Literary critic, University
Karl Silberbauer21 June 1911, Austrian
Officer
S. R. Ranganathan09 August 1892, Indian
Mathematician, Librarian, Academic
Ludwig von Bertalanffy19 September 1901, Austrian, Canadian
Biologist, University teacher
Edmund Wilson08 May 1895, American
Journalist, Poet, Playwright, Literary critic,
Marianne Moore15 November 1887, American
Poet, Writer
Thomas C. Kinkaid03 April 1888, American
Officer
Andrei Tupolev10 November 1888, Russian
Designer
Paul-Henri Spaak25 January 1899, Belgian
Politician, Diplomat
Solomon Lefschetz03 September 1884, American
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Harlow Shapley02 November 1885, American
Astronomer
Yossef Romano15 April 1940, Israeli
Weightlifter
Richard Courant08 January 1888, German
Mathematician, University teacher
Dino Buzzati16 October 1906, Italian
Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Painter, Librettist,
John Grierson26 April 1898, British
Film producer, Film director, Screenwriter
Moshe Weinberg19 September 1939, Israeli
Amateur wrestler
Andre Spitzer04 July 1945, Israeli
Fencer
Antonio Segni02 February 1891, Italian
Politician
Nasir Kazmi08 December 1925, Pakistani
Poet
Kim Du-han1918 AD, South Korean
autobiographer, politician
Georg von Békésy03 June 1899, Hungarian, American
Hungarian researcher
Julian Steward31 January 1902, American
Anthropologist
Martin Dies, Jr.1901 AD
U.S. Representative
James Francis Byrnes02 May 1882, American
Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi16 November 1894, Austrian, Japanese
Politician
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson13 May 1894, Icelander
Former President of Iceland
Sir (Alexander) Robert Atkins10 August 1886, British
Ștefan Procopiu19 January 1890, Romanian
Physicist, University teacher