* 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

* 1892 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( d. 1972 )

He married Margaret Louise Marsh on July 31, 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.

* May 11 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( d. 1972 )

They were Rachel, Rachel ( 1968 ), based on Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God, the screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1972 ), the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Shadow Box ( 1980 ), and a screen version of Tennessee Williams ' The Glass Menagerie ( 1987 ).

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Starting in 1972, Swit played Major Margaret " Hot Lips " Houlihan in the television series M * A * S * H. She inherited the star-making role from actress Sally Kellerman, who portrayed Houlihan in the feature film.

Margaret Atwood adopted his approach and elaborated on this in her book Survival ( 1972 ).

His father, Ulric van den Bogaerde ( born in Perry Barr, Birmingham ; 1892 – 1972 ), was the art editor of The Times and his mother, Margaret Niven ( 1898 – 1980 ), was a former actress.

** Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer ( d. 1972 )

* Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, which adopted the name in 1972

In 1972, the People's Party nominated the democratic socialist and anti-war activist Benjamin Spock for President, and in 1976 it nominated Margaret Wright, of the Watts section of Los Angeles, for President.

The group included Þorsteinn Pálsson, Geir H. Haarde, Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson, Kjartan Gunnarsson, Magnús Gunnarsson, Brynjólfur Bjarnason and Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson, and they published the magazine Eimreiðin from 1972 to 1975 ; in the following years they followed with interest what was happening in the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher and in the United States under Ronald Reagan ; they also read books and articles by and about Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and James M. Buchanan, who all visited Iceland in the early 1980s and whose messages of limited governments, privatisation, and liberalisation of the economy had a wide impact.

They had two children, Hal, Jr. ( June 15, 1918 – March 29, 1972 ) and Margaret M. Roach ( March 15, 1921 – November 22, 1964 ).

Born in Australia in 1972, James was the first child of Sydney-based folk singers Bob and Margaret Fagan.

He served as Solicitor General under Edward Heath from 1972 to 1974, and as Attorney-General for England and Wales and Northern Ireland from 1979 to 1987 under Margaret Thatcher.

* 1972: Dame Margaret Shepherd

One of the few racially integrated Project sites, the Chicago project employed Arna Bontemps, an established voice of the Harlem Renaissance, and helped to launch the literary careers of Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine Dunham, and Frank Yerby ( Mangione 1972 ).

* 1972 Margaret Edmonds ; David Lear

is a sports shōjo manga by Sumika Yamamoto begun in 1972 and serialized in Margaret.

In 1972, a specific form of CES was developed by Dr. Margaret Patterson, providing small pulses of electric current across the head to ameliorate the effects of acute and chronic withdrawal from addictive substances.

His last appearance was in an uncredited, non-speaking cameo in Lady Caroline Lamb ( 1972 ), which co-starred his last wife, Margaret Leighton.

He defeated renowned incumbent U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith in 1972, but was defeated for reelection in 1978 by Republican Congressman William Cohen.

On January 25, 1972, she became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination ( Margaret Chase Smith had previously run for the Republican presidential nomination ).