* Charles Atlas ( 1892 – 1972 ), a famous bodybuilder

* 1972 – Charles Gipson, American baseball player

* 1890 – Charles Correll, American actor ( d. 1972 )

* How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education ( 1940 ), 1966 edition subtitled A Guide to Reading the Great Books, 1972 revised edition with Charles Van Doren, The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading: ISBN 0-671-21209-5

* 1893 – Charles Atlas, Italian-born bodybuilder ( d. 1972 )

Charles, Prince of Wales ( 3 November 1972 ), U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( 15 July 1978 ), and U. S. Vice President ( later President ) George H. W. Bush ( George Bush Senior ) ( 1 February 1983 ).

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

* October 30 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American strongman and sideshow performer ( d. 1972 )

* Hartshorne, Charles ( 1972 ).

Shepherd was cast opposite Charles Grodin in The Heartbreak Kid ( 1972 ).

* She did not like working with Charles Grodin on The Heartbreak Kid ( 1972 ), and that it took her several years to like him enough to have a one-night stand with him.

The original Hungarian notation, which would now be called Apps Hungarian, was invented by Charles Simonyi, a programmer who worked at Xerox PARC circa 1972 – 1981, and who later became Chief Architect at Microsoft.

Seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories about Maigret were published between 1931 and 1972, starting with Pietr-le-Leton ( Latvian Pete ) and concluding with Maigret et Monsieur Charles ( Maigret and Monsieur Charles ).

Because he had stated repeatedly that he would serve only four years ( only Charles E. Wilson and Robert McNamara among his predecessors served longer ), it came as no surprise when President Nixon on 28 November 1972 nominated Elliot L. Richardson to succeed him.

* Hapgood, Charles Hutchins ; Mystery in Acambaro: An Account of the Ceramic Collection of the Late Waldemar Juisrud in Acumbaro, GTU, Self Published: Mexico, 1972.

* Charles L. Vining, Jr., state representative from East and West Carroll parishes, 1968 – 1972

Established in 1972, the park is named after explorer Charles Sturt.

* 1972: George McConnell, Anne Jenks, Edward Brock, Jerry Lavell ( Mayor-Elect ), Kenneth Holtgeerts, Gerald James, Charles Pancerzewski ( appointed 2 / 22 / 72 )

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

London: David & Charles, 1972.

* Charles Correll ( 1890 – 1972 ), actor and comedian

* Charles Knox Martin Jr., 1952 – 1972, Chancellor, 1972 – 73, President Emeritus, 1973 – 1987

Wallace Kuralt, Mecklenburg County's welfare director from 1945 to 1972, was a leader in transitioning the work of state eugenics from looking only at medical conditions to considering poverty as a justification for state sterilization.

Clinton did eventually move to Texas with Rodham to take a job leading McGovern's effort there in 1972.

Although he would go on to have back-to-back 17-win seasons for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and 1972, including a no-hitter in the latter season, this did not help the Reds, who ended up losing the 1970 World Series to Robinson and the Orioles.

Although the film had originally been released in 1952, due to Chaplin's political difficulties at the time, it did not play for one week in Los Angeles, and thus did not meet the criterion for nomination until it was re-released in 1972.

The club recorded undefeated regular seasons in 1934 and 1942, but ( unlike the 1972 Dolphins ) did not win the championship game in either season.

From the late 1950s until the early 1970s, Charlton remained a mainstay of the Second Division before relegation to the Third Division in 1972 caused the team's support to drop, and even a promotion in 1975 back to the second division did little to re-invigorate the team's support and finances.

Essendon did make the finals in 1972 and 1973 under the autocratic direction of Des Tuddenham ( Collingwood ) but they were beaten badly in successive elimination finals by St. Kilda and would not taste finals action again until the very end of the decade.

Critic Roger Ebert, in a review dated January 1, 1972, did not care for the film.

Under the new ownership, the Colts did not reach the postseason for three consecutive seasons after 1971, and after the 1972 season, starting quarterback and legend Johnny Unitas, was traded to the San Diego Chargers.

Joe Namath and Johnny Unitas were the focal point of the rivalry at its beginning, but they did not meet for a full game until September 24, 1972.

The first significant modern day Employment Law Act was the Equal Pay Act of 1970 although as it was a somewhat radical concept it did not come into effect until 1972.

The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ( 1972 ), a role critics consider among his greatest.

* In the second verse of the hit song " Rocket Man " ( 1972 ), Elton John sings " Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids / In fact it's cold as hell / And there's no one there to raise them / If you did ".

In 1972, the first formal summit meeting between Pyongyang and Seoul was held, but cautious talks did not lead much of anywhere and relations between the two Koreas continued down the path of hostility.

In 1972, the company's legal form was changed from Kommanditgesellschaft ( KG ), or limited partnership, to Aktiengesellschaft ( AG ), or public limited company, because Ferry Porsche and his sister, Louise Piëch, felt their generation members did not team up well.

Although the coalition remained in power for almost another seven years ( until the 1972 Federal election ), it did so under four different Prime Ministers.

It was the last at-bat of his career during a regular season, though he did play in the 1972 NLCS playoffs against the Cincinnati Reds.

* 1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian " Black September " terrorist group died ( as did a German policeman ) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt.

Childe originally believed that the inhabitants did not practice agriculture, but excavations in 1972 unearthed seed grains from a midden suggesting that barley was cultivated.

The Redskins played in the NFL Championship one more time before a quarter-century drought that did not end until the 1972 season.

The scheduled opening day of the park was set for April 1, 1972 ; however, the gates did not open until Wednesday May 10, 1972.

The main surface imaging did not get underway until mid-January 1972.

" Grim " was Powell's response when he was asked what he thought of Thatcher's victory, because he believed she would renege like Heath did in 1972.

On 5 November, the European printed an article by Powell in which he said he did not expect the European Communities Act 1972 to be amended or repealed but added, " Still, something has happened.