Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

Notable alumni include former Secretary of State George Schultz 1938, former governor of Connecticut Ella T. Grasso 1936, satirist Tom Lehrer 1943, New York Times chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1945, financier Henry R. Kravis 1963, actor, writer and producer James Widdoes 1972, 1998 Winter Olympic Games United States women's ice hockey Olympic gold medalist Gretchen Ulion 1990 and Taiwanese fashion designer Jason Wu graduated in 2001.

* James Widdoes Actor, director, film and television

* 1972 – Ami James, Israeli-American tattoo artist

In 1972, James E. Nymann showed that the probability that k independently chosen integers are coprime is 1 / ζ ( k ).

A darker image of the hillbilly is found in the film Deliverance ( 1972 ), based on a novel by James Dickey, which depicted the hillbilly as genetically deficient and murderous.

INTERCAL is an esoteric programming language that was created as a parody by Don Woods and James M. Lyon, two Princeton University students, in 1972.

During the 1972 presidential election, James Brown openly proclaimed his support of Richard Nixon for reelection of the presidency over Democrat candidate George McGovern.

* 1972 – James O ' Brien, British radio presenter and journalist

* 1879 – James F. Byrnes, American politician ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – James Cracknell, English rower

In 1960, an expedition to Zaire was planned by herpetologist James H. Powell, Jr., scheduled for 1972, but was canceled by legal complications.

Brando also adopted Petra Brando-Corval ( born 1972 ), the daughter of his assistant Caroline Barrett and novelist James Clavell.

* James E. Gunn ( 1971 – 1972 )

* 1972 – James Westman, Canadian opera singer

* 1972 – James Duval, American actor

* Nicolson, James R. ( 1972 ) Shetland.

James Yimm Lee, a close friend of Lee, certified a few students including Gary Dill who studied Jeet Kune Do under James and received permission via a personal letter from him in 1972 to pass on his learning of Jun Fan Gung Fu to others.

Prior to his death, Lee told his then only two living instructors Kimura and Inosanto ( James Yimm Lee had died in 1972 ) to dismantle his schools.

The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, who became dean of the cathedral in 1972, fostered projects to enable it to become " a holy place for the whole city " and encouraged a revival in the construction of the Cathedral.

Also inspired by the success of James Bond ; specifically the Asian-influenced You Only Live Twice, martial-arts-themed action movies exploded onto the western cinema screens with Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon ( 1973 ), and his imported films like Way of ( or Return of ) the Dragon ( 1972 ).

O ' Toole and James Coco were nominated for two NBR awards, in addition the NBR listed Man of La Mancha in its best 10 pictures of 1972 list.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

* 1972: Collected Poems by James Wright

This part of the culture was initiated by Kool DJ Herc in 1972 using breaks from James Brown, The Incredible Bongo Band and English rock group Babe Ruth in his block parties.

The earliest, and still the canonical example of an esoteric language was INTERCAL, designed in 1972 by Don Woods and James M. Lyon, with the stated intention of being unlike any other programming language the authors were familiar with.

Sheriff James A. Bowen is the dean of NYS Sheriffs, having served as Sheriff since 1972, when he was appointed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.

In 1857 – 58, Douglas broke with President James Buchanan, leading to a fight for control of the Democratic Party.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

* 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

* 1976 – James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, and actor

* 1983 – James Wade, English darts player

* 1985 – James Alexandrou, English actor

* 1988 – Jessie James, American singer-songwriter

* 1964 – Kent James, American singer-songwriter, actor, and actvist

* 1977 – Pell James, American actress

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1965 – Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1958 – James Lileks, American columnist

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1975 – James Carpinello, American actor

* 1983 – Stephen James King, Australian actor

* 1984 – James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer ( d. 1987 )

* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist