1972 deaths

American film director (1889-1972)

Soviet playwright (1905-1972)

American astronomer (1891–1972)

American artist (1903-1972)

British actor (1886–1972)

French cardinal (1884–1972)

American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer (1924–1972)

Italian publisher and left-wing political activist (1926-1972)

American-born British number theorist (1888–1972)

American actor (1928–1972)

Turkish political activist (1947-1972)

American actress (1916-1972)

Icelandic painter (1885-1972)

American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor (1919–1972)

Czech film director (1913–1972)

French pianist and composer

Chinese church leader (1903–1972)

German footballer (1910-1972)

American film director (1896–1972)

British psychiatrist (1903-1972)

German footballer (1889-1972)

German writer and right-wing Freikorps member (1902–1972)

cyclist (1897-1972)

American actress (1916–1972)

American stage and film actor (1942-1972)

American admiral (1880-1972)

American explorer, botanist and photographer (1887-1972)

Hungarian and British champion table tennis player (1911-1972)

Dutch physicist (1887–1972)

267th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1897–1972)

Italian fencer (1909-1972)

German admiral (1884-1972)

Soviet archaeologist and historian (1898–1972)

British composer (1876–1972)

Slovak minister of defence of the Slovakia and general (1895-1972)

King of Burundi (1947-1972)

Finnish politician (1890–1972)

English badminton, chess and tennis player (1881–1972)

Indian artist (1887-1972)

French footballer (1912-1972)

Czech figure skater (1949-1972)

British athlete (1886-1972)

German ornithologist and naturalist (1889-1972)

Hungarian footballer (1910-1972)

American rower

German-American biologist and botanist (1910–1972)

American pole vaulter (1888-1972)

American labor leader (1882-1972)

Chinese politician (1909-1972)

Scottish documentary pioneer (1898–1972)

actress (1907-1972)

United States Navy admiral

Peruvian footballer (1910-1972)

Argentine footballer (1909-1972)

Russian-Soviet novelist and war correspondent (1902–1972)

American soccer player (1898–1972)

Portuguese fencer (1889-1972)

American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist (1892–1972)

English socialite and author (1894–1972)

American blues musician (1904–1972)