People who died in 1972
Harry S. Truman
1884
– 1972
· Age 88
Deceased
Kwame Nkrumah
1909
– 1972
· Age 62
Deceased
Yasunari Kawabata
1899
– 1972
· Age 72
Deceased
Edward VIII
1894
– 1972
· Age 77
Deceased
Ezra Pound
1885
– 1972
· Age 87
Deceased
Maria Goeppert Mayer
1906
– 1972
· Age 65
Deceased
M. C. Escher
1898
– 1972
· Age 73
Deceased
Lester B. Pearson
1897
– 1972
· Age 75
Deceased
Maurice Chevalier
1888
– 1972
· Age 83
Deceased
Asta Nielsen
1881
– 1972
· Age 90
Deceased
Igor Sikorsky
1889
– 1972
· Age 83
Deceased
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
1894
– 1972
· Age 77
Deceased
Frederik IX of Denmark
1899
– 1972
· Age 72
Deceased
J. Edgar Hoover
1895
– 1972
· Age 77
Deceased
Max Theiler
1899
– 1972
· Age 73
Deceased
Heinrich Lübke
1894
– 1972
· Age 77
Deceased
Georg von Békésy
1899
– 1972
· Age 73
Deceased
Antonio Segni
1891
– 1972
· Age 81
Deceased
Dino Buzzati
1906
– 1972
· Age 65
Deceased
Edward Calvin Kendall
1886
– 1972
· Age 86
Deceased
Paul-Henri Spaak
1899
– 1972
· Age 73
Deceased
Andrei Tupolev
1888
– 1972
· Age 84
Deceased
Mahalia Jackson
1911
– 1972
· Age 60
Deceased
Jackie Robinson
1919
– 1972
· Age 53
Deceased
Henry de Montherlant
1895
– 1972
· Age 77
Deceased