* 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

It was founded in Devon, England in 1972 by retired farmer Kenneth Watkins OBE ( 6 December 1909-13 November 1996 ).

She joined Age Concern Scotland ( now Age UK ), in 1972, leaving in 1979 as a deputy director to join the Gas Consumer Council as a regional manager for the South West of England, in which capacity she founded the Devon and Cornwall energy efficiency centre, before she left in 1996.

Devon Hughes ( born August 1, 1972 ) is an American professional wrestler.

In 1972, mobster Carmine Ricca ( Richard Devon ) drives away from court and an angry mob after being acquitted on a technicality.

DJ Die ( born Daniel Kausman, 1972 in Devon ), is a British music producer and DJ.

In 1968 it was formally proposed to the Ministry of Transport that the line from Paignton should be closed entirely but instead, on 30 December 1972, the line was sold to the Dart Valley Railway Company, which at that time operated the nearby heritage railway that subsequently became the South Devon Railway.

As an air-portable unit, elements of the Devon & Dorsets were frequently dispatched to various locations at short notice: In January 1972 they moved to County Armagh, to British Honduras in August 1972, to West Belfast in October 1973, to Cyprus in October 1974 and to Belize in November 1975.

" Reported in a small survey that took place in Exeter, Devon in 1972.

After being awarded an LLB ( Hons ) in 1972 at Exeter University, England, he worked as a bus conductor in Exeter, Devon, for a year before moving to London where he worked firstly as a labourer building the Piccadilly Line extension to Heathrow and then as an accountant at Luzac & Co, Oriental Booksellers.

The station building, which was used by Devon Training for Skills after 1972, was restored and reopened incorporating a model shop and café.

* 1972 – Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist

On February 13, 1972, Michael Davis left the band ( he was using heroin and was all but forced out by the others ), and was replaced by a series of bassists ( Steve Moorhouse, Derek Hughes, and Ray Craig ).

* Robert Hughes praised Arbus in 1972 as having " altered our experience of the face.

Life lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972.

Since 1972, in the Queens Bench court case Evans v. Hughes, the threat has to be believed to be real and imminent.

Hughes first joined the Liberal Party in 1972, when he signed up to Cambridge University Liberal Club as a student.

* Hughes ( Royal Society ) 1972

Kevin and Lynda Hughes married in 1972.

* The Clifford Irving and the Howard Hughes biography ( 1972 )

Hughes was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from New Jersey in 1948 ( as an alternate ), 1968 and 1972.

The series ' groundbreaking format, in which Clark travelled around the world to illustrate his thesis, became a template for later programmes such as Alistair Cooke's America ( 1972 ), Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man ( 1973 ), Life on Earth ( 1979 ) and sequels by David Attenborough, and Robert Hughes ' series on modern art The Shock of the New ( 1980 ).

Hughes Aircraft's helicopter manufacturing business was retained by Hughes Tool Co. as its Aircraft Division until 1972.

In 1972, Howard Hughes sold the Hughes Tool Company ; it had been the consistently profitable part of his empire, and produced the profits that built all the rest from the very beginning.

On January 7, 1972, Hughes finally contacted the outside world.

* Yvonne when asked in 1972 about her affair with Howard Hughes before he turned into a legendary recluse: " Howard taught me how to land a plane and how to take off.

In 1972, she was cast as Kim Sullivan Hughes on CBS's As the World Turns.

* David Hughes ( tenor ) ( 1929 – 1972 ), English popular singer, later an opera singer

* David Hughes ( footballer born 1972 ), English / Welsh footballer formerly with Southampton

Hughes scored his only international goal against Wales ; the opening goal of a 3 – 0 Home International victory at Ninian Park in 1972.

In 2008, Tommy Smith claimed in his autobiography, that on 8 May 1972, Hughes told him that he had been speaking to a number of Arsenal players, and they had said that they were " willing to throw a match for £ 50 a man " in a vital match at Highbury which decided the title.

Hughes played as England's interest in the 1972 European Championships ended at the two-legged quarter final stage, with West Germany again victorious.