* Gene Austin ( 1900 – 1972 ), American singer

* Charles Atlas ( 1892 – 1972 ), a famous bodybuilder

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.

* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Scott Martin Brooks, American actor

* 1972 – Chad Eaton, American football player

* 1972 – Jason Hervey, American actor

* 1972 – Ami James, Israeli-American tattoo artist

* 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and director

* 1972 – Dickey Simpkins, American basketball player

* 1972 – Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower

* 1972 – Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer and musician

* 1972 – Dimitrios Kokotis, Greek high jumper

* 1972 – Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player

* 1896 – Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – JR Richards, American singer-songwriter, and musician ( Dishwalla )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player

* 1972 – Felix da Housecat, American DJ and producer

* 1972 – The Great Khali, Indian wrestler

* 1972 – Denise Lewis, English heptathlete

Brett A. Reed ( b. July 12, 1972 in Oakland, California ) is an American musician, best known as the original drummer for the punk rock band Rancid and Devils Brigade.

( 1971 – 1972 ), in which Roger Moore's character Lord Brett Sinclair drove a distinctive " Bahama Yellow " ( orange / gold ) 6-cylinder DBS that, through the use of alloy wheels and different badges, had been made to look like the later DBS V8 model.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

In 1972, Accuracy In Media began publishing the AIM Report, a twice-monthly newsletter originally edited by Reed Irvine.

* A history of Evangeline: its land, its men and its women who made it a beautiful place to live, Robert Gahn, Sr. ; edited by Revon John Reed, Sr. Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's, c 1972

Samantha Reed Smith ( June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985 ) was an American schoolgirl, peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous in the Cold War-era United States and Soviet Union.

Samantha Smith was born on June 29, 1972, in the small town of Houlton, Maine, on the Canada – United States border, to Jane Reed and Arthur Smith.

* John Reed ( footballer ) ( born 1972 ), English footballer who played primarily for Sheffield United

It was also translated into Esperanto in 1972, by Ivy Kellerman Reed and Ralph A. Lewin, Winnie-La-Pu.

* Transformer ( album ), a 1972 album by Lou Reed

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" City of New Orleans " is a folk music song written and first performed by Steve Goodman in 1970 and subsequently recorded by Arlo Guthrie in 1972 and many other artists, notably Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, John Denver ( with slightly different lyrics ), Judy Collins, and Jerry Reed.

Apted made his first feature film in 1972, The Triple Echo, starring Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson, and he directed two films for David Puttnam.

* 1972 " Rock and Roll / Box of Old Roses "( written by Lou Reed )

Amongst the most significant legal victories of the movement after the formation of NOW were a 1967 Executive Order extending full Affirmative Action rights to women, Title IX and the Women's Educational Equity Act ( 1972 and 1974, respectively, educational equality ), Title X ( 1970, health and family planning ), the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ( 1974 ), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the illegalization of marital rape ( although not illegalized in all states until 1993 ), the legalization of no-fault divorce ( although not allowed in all states until 2010 ), a 1975 law requiring the U. S. Military Academies to admit women, and many Supreme Court cases, perhaps most notably Reed v. Reed of 1971 and Roe v. Wade of 1973.

Steven Reed Konowalchuk ( born November 11, 1972 ) is an American former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the NHL with the Washington Capitals and the Colorado Avalanche.

* Stanley Reed ( 1964 – 1972 )

" Perfect Day " is a song written by Lou Reed in 1972, originally featured on Transformer, Reed's second post-Velvet Underground solo album.

Transformer is the second studio album by American rock musician Lou Reed, released in November 1972.

In chapter three of the 2011 biography of Steve Jobs, titled Steve Jobs, biographer Walter Isaacson states that around 1972, while Jobs was attending Reed College, Robert Friedland "... taught Steve the reality distortion field ...”

Within the NF, the Leicester branch had become one of the most active in the country and, since 1972, this group had been led by Anthony Reed Herbert, a local solicitor whose talent for organisation had made Leicester a model branch.

Jim Reed joined the programme in 1972 as a field producer and was later appointed as host along with Helen Hutchinson and Henry Champ.

* Kip's ( Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, 1958 – 1991, founded Fred Bell, Thomas W. Holman & James Reed ) Bell owned & operated Kip's of Texas, while Holman and Reed owned & operated Kip's of Oklahoma & Kansas ) Acquired by Frisch's in 1972.