* 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

* Karl Dietrich Bracher " Stages of Totalitarian " Integration " ( Gleichschaltung ): The Consolidation of National Socialist Rule in 1933 and 1934 " pages 109 – 28 from Republic To Reich The Making of the Nazi Revolution Ten Essays edited by Hajo Holborn, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.

* 1972 – Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player

* Galinsky, G. Karl, The Herakles theme: the adaptations of the hero in literature from Homer to the twentieth century, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1972.

In July 1972, he succeeded Karl Schiller as Minister for Economics and Finances, but in November 1972, he relinquished the Economics department, which was again made a separate ministry.

His first significant role came in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976, where he starred alongside Karl Malden.

Segregation had been struck down as unconstitutional in 1956, yet in 1968, 70 % of black children still attended segregated schools .< ref > Jonathan Karl reviewing James Rosen's < u > The Strong Man </ u >: http :// online. wsj. com / article / SB121158799673718969. html </ ref > By 1972, this percentage had decreased to 8 %.

After basic military training in secondary school in 1966, Sankara began his military career at the age of 19, and a year later was sent to Madagascar for officer training at Antsirabe where he witnessed popular uprisings in 1971 and 1972 against the government of Philibert Tsiranana and first read the works of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, profoundly influencing his political views for the rest of his life.

President Gustav Heinemann dissolved the Bundestag at the request of Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1972, and in 1982 President Karl Carstens did so at the request of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Later recipients include Arthur Compton ( 1954 ), Hermann Hesse ( 1954 ), Albert Schweitzer ( 1954 ), Thomas Mann ( 1955 ), Oskar Kokoschka ( 1955 ), Carl Orff ( 1956 ), Erwin Schrödinger ( 1956 ), Thornton Wilder ( 1956 ), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( 1956 ), Werner Heisenberg ( 1957 ), Gerhard Ritter ( 1957 ), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( 1957 ), Percy Ernst Schramm ( 1958 ), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ( 1961 ), Karl Jaspers ( 1964 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1967 ), Carl Zuckmayer ( 1967 ), Henry Moore ( 1972 ), Raymond Aron ( 1973 ), George F. Kennan ( 1976 ), Friedrich Hayek ( 1977 ), Karl Popper ( 1980 ), Eugène Ionesco ( 1983 ), Hans Bethe ( 1984 ), Gordon A. Craig ( 1990 ), Rudolf Mößbauer ( 1996 ), Umberto Eco ( 1998 ), Hans Magnus Enzensberger ( 1999 ), and Wim Wenders ( 2005 ).

Karl Heinrich Lübke ( 14 October 1894, Enkhausen, Westphalia – 6 April 1972 ) was President of the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) from 1959 to 1969.

It was established by Karl Boer in 1972 to pioneer research on thin film solar cells and today is one of the only laboratories in the world with expertise in Si, CdTe, and CuInSe2 based solar cells.

U. S. TV stations produced series such as 77 Sunset Strip ( 1958 – 1963 ); The Streets of San Francisco ( 1972 – 1977 ), starring Karl Malden and a young Michael Douglas ; Kojak ( 1973 – 1978 ), with Telly Savalas playing the lollipop-addicted police lieutenant ; Switch ( 1975 – 1978 ), with Eddie Albert playing the retired bunco cop to Robert Wagner's role as a former con man ; Charlie's Angels ( 1976 – 1981 ); Murder, She Wrote ( starting in 1984 ), about the adventures of Cabot Cove-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, played by Angela Lansbury.

* Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1972

* Franz Karl Franchy ( 1896 – 1972 ), writer

4-Sundays after Trinity I, Karl Richter, Münchener Bach-Orchester, Edith Mathis, Archiv Produktion 1972

He recorded possibly his worst defeat in his whole career at the 1973 Australian Open ( once again with a very weak field because as in 1972 among the Top 20 only Rosewall and Newcombe participated ) when seeded first he was defeated by German Karl Meiler in his first match ( second round ): 2 – 6, 3 – 6, 2 – 6.

It was during a 1972 eclipse-viewing cruise with his grandson that Karl Ziegler became ill.

* YouTube footage of Karl Rove and the " state of the art " opposition research data storage system in the 1972 Nixon re-election campaign

The book made no particularly great impact ; but the 1976 English-language publication of Marx for Beginners, a translation of his Marx para principiantes ( 1972 ), a comic strip representation of the life and ideas of Karl Marx, became an international bestseller and kicked off the For Beginners series of books from Writers ' & Readers ' and later Icon Books.

In 1972, founders Karl Bacon and Ed Morgan decided to retire and sold Arrow Development to the Rio Grande Railroad.

Bercovici translated works from world literature: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Frank V ( 1964 ), Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta ( 1968 ), and Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder ( 1972 ), and wrote his own Yiddish-language plays, including Der goldener fodem (" The Golden Thread ", 1963 ), about Abraham Goldfaden ( who in 1876 founded the world's first Yiddish-language theater, in Iaşi, Romania ), and the musical revue A shnirl perl (" A Pearl Necklace ", 1967 ).