WHO ALL DIED FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 1972
Find out who all died from April to August 1972

American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Joseph Fielding Smith died 2. July 1972. (born 1876)

American sprinter Ralph Craig died 21. July 1972. (born 1889)

Turkish-Greek composer Giannis Papaioannou died 3. August 1972. (born 1913)

Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate Georg von Békésy died 13. June 1972. (born 1899)

Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah died 27. April 1972. (born 1909)

Belgian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium Paul-Henri Spaak died 31. July 1972. (born 1899)

American 1st Lt. Airman who was killed in action in the Vietnam War. Formally the "Vietnam Unknown" soldier interred at the Tomb of the Unknowns before formal identification of his remains Michael Blassie died 11. May 1972. (born 1948)

English actress Margaret Rutherford died 22. May 1972. (born 1892)

American singer (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) Jimmy Rushing died 8. June 1972. (born 1901)

Bhutanese king Jigme Dorji Wangchuck died 21. July 1972. (born 1928)

Egyptian actor Ismail Yasin died 24. May 1972. (born 1915)

American pianist and composer Ferde Grofé died 3. April 1972. (born 1882)

English pilot and sailor Francis Chichester died 26. August 1972. (born 1901)

American painter Jan Matulka died 25. June 1972. (born 1890)

American physician Walter Jackson Freeman II died 31. May 1972. (born 1895)

American runner Emil Breitkreutz died 3. May 1972. (born 1883)

Japanese author, Nobel Prize laureate Yasunari Kawabata died 16. April 1972. (born 1899)

Australian-American swimmer Francis Gailey died 10. July 1972. (born 1882)

American actress Isabel Jewell died 5. April 1972. (born 1907)

American actor Dan Blocker died 13. May 1972. (born 1928)