Famous People Who Died At 72
The list of famous people who died at 72 includes Confucius, John Wayne, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Harris, Aleister Crowley. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, actors, artists and poets and from other domains of life. This list of celebrities who died at 72 includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Peggy Lipton30 August 1946, American
Actress
John Wayne26 May 1907, American
Actor
Richard Harris01 October 1930, Irish
Actor, Singer-Songwriter, Producer, Director
Aleister Crowley12 October 1875, British
Joan Crawford23 March 1905, American
Actress
Pol Pot19 May 1925, Cambodian
Dictator, War Criminal
John Locke29 August 1632, British
Father of Classical Liberalism
K. Kamaraj15 July 1903, Indian
Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India
Isaac Asimov02 January 1920, American
Writer, Professor
Ashoka0304 BC, Indian
Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty
William Howard Taft15 September 1857, American
President of the U.S.A
Confucius28 September 0551, Chinese
Renowned Chinese teacher, politician, and
Charles Lindbergh04 February 1902, American
Aviator, Inventor & Author
Telly Savalas21 January 1922, American
American singer
Walt Whitman31 May 1819, American
Poet & humanist
Louis Pasteur27 December 1822, French
Chemist and Microbiologist
Ferdinand Marcos11 September 1917, Filipino
Former President of the Philippines
Herman Melville01 August 1819, American
Pope Alexander VI01 January 1431, Italian
Religious Leader
Thomas Paine29 January 1737, British, American
Founding Father of the United States
Leonard Bernstein25 August 1918, American
Conductor (New York Philharmonic)
Frank Sinatra Jr.10 January 1944, American
Singer
Arthur Schopenhauer22 February 1788, German
Philosopher
John Drew Barrymore04 June 1932, American
Actor
Mahavira0599 BC, Indian
Last tirthankara of Jainism
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Mileva Marić19 December 1875, Serbian
Physicist
Ibn Battuta25 February 1304, Moroccan
Explorer
Gertrude Stein03 February 1874, American
American novelist
Lorne Greene12 February 1915, Canadian
Actor
Fulgencio Batista16 January 1901, Cuban
Former President of Cuba
Henry James15 April 1843, American
Writer
Empress Dowager Cixi29 November 1835, Chinese
Chinese Empress Dowager
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Larry Fine05 October 1902, American
Comedian
Cilla Black27 May 1943, British
Singer
Dmitri Mendeleev08 February 1834, Russian
Inventor of Periodic Table
Brahmagupta0598 AD, Indian
Mathematician and Astronomer
Douglas Bader21 February 1910, British
Royal Air Force Pilot During World War II
Roger Vadim26 January 1928, French
Screenwriter
Erich Ludendorff09 April 1865, German
General of German Army
James MacArthur08 December 1937, American
Actor
Susannah York09 January 1939, British
Actress
Marcello Mastroianni28 September 1924, Italian
Actor
Amir Khusrow1253 AD, Indian
Sufi Poet
Carlos Castaneda25 December 1925, American
Author
Georg Cantor03 March 1845, German, Russian
Mathematician
El Greco01 October 1541, Spanish, Greek
Painter
Averroes14 April 1126, Spanish
Philosopher
Ambrose Bierce24 June 1842, American
Journalist & Writer, soldier
Erich Maria Remarque22 June 1898, German
Novelist
John Vernon24 February 1932, Canadian, American
Actor
Frank Gorshin05 April 1933, American
Actor
Frank James10 January 1843, American
Outlaw
Angelica Hamilton25 September 1784, American
Alexander Hamilton's Daughter
Alvin Karpis10 August 1907, Canadian, Spanish
Gangster
Sigrid Valdis21 September 1935, American
Actress
Alexis Smith08 June 1921, Canadian
Actress
Wilfrid Brambell22 March 1912, Irish
Actor
Levi Stubbs06 June 1936, American
Baritone Singer
Anton Bruckner04 September 1824, Austrian
Composer
John Eleuthère du Pont22 November 1938, American
Philanthropist
Mako Iwamatsu10 December 1933, Japanese, American
Actor
Vasili Arkhipov30 January 1926, Russian
Naval Officer
Thomas Moore28 May 1779, Irish
Poet, Singer, Songwriter, & Entertainer
Billy Sunday19 November 1862, American
Barbara Hepworth10 January 1903, British
Artist
Miguel de Unamuno29 September 1864, Spanish
Writer
Juvenal0055 AD, Italian
Poet
Francis Schaeffer30 January 1912, American
Theologian, Philosopher
John Wilkes17 October 1725, British
English journalist
Lon Nol13 November 1913, Cambodian
Cambodian Politician
Frederick Delius29 January 1862, British
Composer
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres28 September 1852, British
British Army Officer
Heitor Villa-Lobos05 March 1887, Brazilian
Latin American Composer
George M. Dallas10 July 1792, American
11th Vice President of the U.S.A
Elizabeth Kenny20 September 1880, Australian
Nurse & Health Administrator
Virginia Satir26 June 1916, American
American author
Trygve Lie16 July 1896, Norwegian
First Secretary General of the U.N
Don Dunstan21 September 1926, Australian, Fijian
Former Premier of South Australia
Peter Medawar28 February 1915, British
Biologist
Alberto Korda14 September 1928, Cuban
Photographer
Arthur Henderson13 September 1863, British
Politician
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes21 September 1853, Dutch
Physicist
William E. Simon27 November 1927, American
Businessman, Philanthropist
Anatole Litvak21 May 1902, French, Ukrainian, American, Russian
Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Alexander Turney Stewart12 October 1803, American
Entrepreneur
Dr Zakir Husain08 February 1897, Indian
Former President of India
Robert Siodmak08 August 1900, German
Film Director
Anna Howard Shaw14 February 1847, American
Leader of the women's suffrage movement in the
William Carey17 August 1761, British
Missionary
Edward Victor Appleton06 September 1892, British
Physicist
Christiaan Eijkman11 August 1858, Dutch
Physician
George Clinton26 July 1739, American
Fourth Vice President of the U.S.A
Upendranath Brahmachari19 December 1873, Indian
Scientist
Henry Way Kendall09 December 1926, American
Physicist
Adrian Willaert1490 AD, Belgian
Music Composer, Teacher, Founder of the Venetian
Ferdinand von Richthofen05 May 1833, German
Geographer, Traveler, Scientist