* 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

* 1972 – Eric Dane, American actor

* The astrologer Dane Rudhyar, who was influential in the New Age movement, predicted in 1972 that the Age of Aquarius would begin in AD 2062.

* Dane Cook ( born 1972 ), American comedian

The first core at North Central ( 74 ° 37 ’ N 39 ° 36 ’ W ) was drilled in 1972 using a Shallow ( Dane ) drill type, 7. 6 cm diameter to 100 m.

* Eric Dane ( born 1972 ), American actor

* Dane Cook ( born 1972 ), American stand-up comic and actor

Dane Jeffrey Cook ( born March 18, 1972 ) is an American stand-up comedian and film actor.

* Boo Cook ( born 1972 ) is a British comic artist, whose work mainly features in the comic 2000 AD.

Ralph Cook Craig ( June 21, 1889 – July 21, 1972 ) was an American athlete, winner of the sprint double at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Since its change in name in 1972, Alabama has included Owen, Cook and Gentry.

The band took a break while Owen and Cook attended college, and then in 1972 the band reunited in Anniston, Alabama, using the name Wildcountry.

* Steph Cook ( born 1972 ) — modern pentathlete and Olympic gold medallist

From left to right, John Fogerty, Stu Cook, and Doug Clifford, 1972.

The band's final album, Mardi Gras, was released in April 1972, featuring songs written by Fogerty, Cook, and Clifford and a cover of " Hello Mary Lou " ( a song Gene Pitney originally wrote for Ricky Nelson.

The time hierarchy theorem for nondeterministic Turing machines was originally proven by Stephen Cook in 1972.

* Fanny Cradock's Nationwide Cook Book ( BBC, 1972 )

* Cook Book ( 1972 )

The series is often thought to have ended in 1972 with Tim's Last Voyage but that was, in fact, followed in 1977 by Ships Cook Ginger.

A conference of the neighboring states ( Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, Nauru, Samoa, and territory of Cook Islands ) met on 24 February 1972 at which Tonga made a claim over the Minerva Reefs and the rest of the states recognized its claim.

In collaboration with Roger Cook and Don Shanosky of Cook and Shanosky Associates, the designers conducted an exhaustive survey of pictograms already in use around the world, which drew from sources as diverse as Tokyo International Airport and the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Stephanie Cook MBE ( born February 7, 1972 in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland ) is a retired modern pentathlete and Olympic gold medallist.

Further diversification followed in 1972, when Midland was the leading member of the consortium that acquired the Thomas Cook travel business.

Notable heritage projects in New Zealand involving Downer & Co include the Homer Tunnel accessing Milford Sound ( 1935 – 1940 ), Rimutaka Tunnel ( 1951 – 1955 ), Cook Strait Ferry Terminal for passenger and freight operations ( 1960 ), Lower Nihotupu Dam ( 1948 ), Lower Wairarapa Valley flood prevention scheme ( 1964 – 1984 ) and New Plymouth Power Station ( 1972 ).

He has received several awards for his contributions to Australian and multicultural literature, including the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1972 for Headwaters, the Captain Cook Bicentenary Poetry Prize, the Henry Lawson Short Story Award, an Order of Cultural Merit from the Polish government in 1989 and in 2002, an Order of Australia.

* Stephanie Cook ( b. 1972 ), modern pentathlete, 2000 Olympic gold medallist

He was in office when the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board collapsed ; he privatised British Rail's travel agency, Thomas Cook, in 1972 ; and made helmets compulsory for motorcyclists.

Boo Cook ( born 1972 ) is a British comic artist, whose work mainly features in the comic 2000 AD.