* 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

Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vírgenes (" The Virgins ' Corner "), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood.

* 1972 – Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach

de: Blutsonntag ( Nordirland 1972 )

Général d ' armée Louis Bobozo, and Generaux de Corps d ' Armee Nyamaseko Mata Bokongo, Nzoigba Yeu Ngoli, Muke Massaku, Ingila Grima, Itambo Kambala Wa Mukina, Tshinyama Mpemba, and General de Division Yossa Yi Ayira, the last having been commander of the Kamina base, were all retired on 25 July 1972.

", as he became popularly known, was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1969 as the member for Vereeniging, and entered the cabinet in 1978. de Klerk had been offered a professorship of administrative law at Potchefstroom in 1972 but he declined the post because he was serving in Parliament.

Operating from 1960 to 1972 International Halliwell Mines, Ltd. (" Halliwell "), a Canadian corporation, through its wholly owned Haitian subsidiary, La Societe d ' Exploitation et de Developpement Economique et Natural d ' Haiti (" Sedren ") mined copper near Gonaïves.

Only 25, 000 people per year, of which about 21 percent are industrial workers, graduate yearly from the National Institute of Professional Training ( Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional-- INFOP ) established in 1972.

* Constitutional History of Jersey, F. de L. Bois, 1972

* 1972 – Drea de Matteo, American actress

* Situations VIII: Autour de 1968 ( 1972 )

* De Volharding ( 1972 ) ( Perseverance ) for piano and wind instruments ( written for Orkest de Volharding )

In July 1972, they laid explosives in the Plaza de San Isidro in Buenos Aires that injured three policemen, blinded one fireman, and killed another.

Miguel de Icaza ( born c. 1972 ) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.

* 1972 – Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete

In 1972, de Wolf and van Aalst reported that the diffraction pattern produced by a crystal of sodium carbonate cannot be labeled with three indices but needed one more, which implied that the underlying structure had four dimensions in reciprocal space.

Bulletin de l ' Ifan, Tome 34, Série B, n ° 4, 1972. p706

* Cyr Descamps, Contribution à la préhistoire de l ' Ouest-sénégalais, Paris, Université de Paris, 1972, 345 pages ( Thèse de 3 < sup > e </ sup > cycle publiée en 1979, Dakar, Travaux et Documents Faculté des Lettres: 286 pages

* 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French author ( b. 1896 )

* 1972 – Lhasa de Sela, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress ( d. 2010 )

60 speed became the de facto standard for amateur radio RTTY operation because of the widespread availability of equipment at that speed and the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) restrictions to only 60 speed from 1953 to 1972.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.