Died in 1972

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)

Baseball Player

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Roberto Clemente (1934-1972)

Baseball Player

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)

Yip Man (1893-1972)

Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972)

Edward VIII (1894-1972)

Neilia Hunter (1942-1972)

Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)

Joi Lansing (1928-1972)

J Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)

Law Enforcement Officer

Lester B. Pearson (1897-1972)

James K. Baxter (1926-1972)

MC Escher (1898-1972)

Graphic Designer

Max Fleischer (1883-1972)

Ross Bagdasarian Sr. (1919-1972)

Fred McDowell (1904-1972)

Dan Blocker (1928-1972)

Meena Kumari (1932-1972)

George Sanders (1906-1972)

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972)

Carl Hayden (1877-1972)

Kenny Dorham (1924-1972)

Lee Morgan (1938-1972)

Yaakov Herzog (1921-1972)

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972)

Howard Deering Johnson (1897-1972)

Prescott Bush (1895-1972)

Louis Leakey (1903-1972)

Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972)

Fashion Designer

Walter Winchell (1897-1972)

Gil Hodges (1924-1972)

Baseball Player

Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972)

Steven L. Bennett (1946-1972)

Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972)

Clarice Cliff (1899-1972)

Tom Neal (1914-1972)

Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)

Harlow Shapley (1885-1972)

José Limón (1908-1972)

Betty Smith (1896-1972)

Marie Wilson (1916-1972)

Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895-1972)

William Manuel Johnson (1872-1972)

Alexander Uninsky (1910-1972)

Brandon Dewilde (1942-1972)

Clyde McPhatter (1932-1972)

Louella Parsons (1881-1972)