* 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

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

* Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts ( 28 June 1972 ) from the Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives.

After only about a month, Clinton postponed his plans to be a coordinator for the McGovern campaign for the 1972 United States presidential election in order to move in with her in California.

* Wilner, Wayne T., " B1700 Design and Implementation ", Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara Plant, Goleta, California, May 1972.

degree in biochemistry in 1972, and his Ph. D. degree in physiology and pharmacology in 1975, both from the University of California, San Diego.

He befriended Elton John when the British singer was staying in California in 1972, insisting on calling him " John Elton.

North received a PhD in history from the University of California, Riverside in 1972.

He then received a Ph. D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972 ; his research focused on synthesis and structure of proteins.

California: National Press Books, 1972.

OSS: The Secret History of America ’ s First Central Intelligence Agency ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 ; Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005 )

The Patterson-Gimlin film ( also referred to as simply the Patterson film ) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a " Bigfoot ", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson ( February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972 ) and Robert Gimlin ( October 18, 1931 ) on the Klamath River outside of Orleans, California.

Falk was also a chess aficionado and was a spectator at the American Open in Santa Monica, California, in November 1972, and at the U. S. Open in Pasadena, California, in August 1983.

Although the Greenman rule was transmitted to most other states via Section 402A of the Restatement of Torts, Second ( published in 1964 after Greenman ), the Supreme Court of California refused to adopt Section 402A's " unreasonably dangerous " limitation upon strict liability in 1972.

In May 1972, Bushnell had visited the Magnavox Profit Caravan in Burlingame, California where he played the Magnavox Odyssey demonstration, specifically the table tennis game.

The team played its first game on April 15, 1972, a 1 – 0 loss at the California Angels.

In 1972, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, teaching an introductory course entitled " The Nature of Mathematics " to liberal arts majors —" Math for Tenors ", according to Lehrer.

* April 9 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death ; in 1972, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates is commuted to life imprisonment.

Following this, he earned a doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972.

The later years of his career were spent with the Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1972 ), California Angels ( 1973 – 1974 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 1974 – 1976 ).

The death sentences were later automatically commuted to life in prison after the California Supreme Court's People v. Anderson decision resulted in the invalidation of all death sentences imposed in California before 1972., Manson, Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten remain incarcerated.

He has also held academic positions at Cornell University ( 1972 – 73 ), University of California, Berkeley ( 1973 – 1975 ), Stanford University ( 1974 – 1980 ), and New York University ( 1981 – 1985 ).

George P. Lakoff (, born May 24, 1941 ) is an American cognitive linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972.