WHO ALL DIED IN 1972.
See all who died in 1972.

English actor and singer George Sanders died 25. April 1972. (born 1906)

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

English-American model and actress Gia Scala died 30. April 1972. (born 1934)

American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover died 2. May 1972. (born 1895)

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

American actor Bruce Cabot died 3. May 1972. (born 1904)

Scottish guitarist (Stone the Crows) Leslie Harvey died 3. May 1972. (born 1944)

American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate Edward Calvin Kendall died 4. May 1972. (born 1886)

Turkish activist Deniz Gezmiş died 6. May 1972. (born 1947)

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)

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

Irish-English poet and author Cecil Day-Lewis died 22. May 1972. (born 1904)

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

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

American baseball player, coach, and spy Moe Berg died 29. May 1972. (born 1902)

Pakistani-Indian actor Prithviraj Kapoor died 29. May 1972. (born 1906)

Ukrainian-American engineer Stephen Timoshenko died 29. May 1972. (born 1878)

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

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