Irish poet Thomas Kinsella's 1972 poem Butcher's Dozen is a satirical and angry response to the Widgery Tribunal and the events of Bloody Sunday.

* 1925 – Nasir Kazmi, renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan ( d. 1972 )

* 1911 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Saul Williams, American rapper, poet, and actor

* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award

* 1887 – Helen Hoyt, American poet ( d. 1972 )

* 1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer ( b. 1904 )

* 1972 – Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and musician ( Brobdingnagian Bards )

* 1972 – Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian poet

* 1914 – John Berryman, American poet ( d. 1972 )

* 1885 – Ezra Pound, American poet ( d. 1972 )

He was best known as the lead singer, poet and frontman of Hawkwind intermittently from 1972 – 1979 during which time he co-wrote their hit single " Silver Machine " and directed their Space Ritual Tour.

** Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter ( d. 1972 )

* April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet ( d. 1972 )

* October 30 – Ezra Pound, American poet ( d. 1972 )

** Helen Hoyt, American poet ( d. 1972 )

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( 30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 ) was an American expatriate poet, critic and a major figure of the early modernist movement.

Kenneth Patchen ( December 13, 1911 – January 8, 1972 ) was an American poet and novelist.

* Adnan Veli ( 1916 – 1972 ), Turkish journalist, brother of poet Orhan Veli

* Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1904 – 1972 ), Irish poet and the British Poet Laureate

* Jill Scott ( born 1972 ), soul and R & B singer-songwriter, poet, and actress.

* Robert Montgomery ( artist ) ( born 1972 ), British artist and poet

* Dimitri Verhulst ( b. 1972 ), writer and poet

In 1972, the company was sold to another company called Company Developments Ltd., backed by a Birmingham-based consortium, and chaired by chartered accountant and company director William Willson, MBE.

* John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough ( 1897 – 1972 ), elder son of the 9th Duke

* The Elements of Style ( with William Strunk, Jr .) ( 1959, republished 1972, 1979, 1999, 2005 )

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

In 1972, William J. Samarin, a linguist from the University of Toronto, published a thorough assessment of Pentecostal glossolalia that became a classic work on its linguistic characteristics.

In 1972, Professor William Calder of the University of Colorado, speaking at a commemoration of Schliemann's birthday, claimed that he had uncovered several possible problems in Schliemann's work.

* 1972 – William Goldsmith, American drummer ( Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters, and The Fire Theft )

In 1972: Won by Tim Powell, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, William Meyers, Stirling Moss.

File: Bardeen. jpg | John Bardeen ( 1908 – 1991 ): awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

* Shalhope, Robert E. " Toward a Republican Synthesis: The Emergence of an Understanding of Republicanism in American Historiography ", William and Mary Quarterly, 29 ( Jan. 1972 ), 49-80 in JSTOR, ( an influential article ).

* USS William C. Cole ( DE-641 ) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort, which was launched in 1943 and stricken in 1972.

* Chafe, William H., " The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, And Political Roles, 1920 – 1970 ", Oxford University Press, 1972.

* Keith L. Sprunger, The Learned Doctor William Ames ( 1972 )

* Keith L. Sprunger, The Learned Doctor William Ames, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

In July 1972 William Whitelaw introduced Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence.

* The Paladin ( 1972 ), the story of Walter Tirel, killer of William Rufus.

* Newman, William S. 1972.

On February 4, 1972, Thurmond sent a secret memo to William Timmons ( in his capacity as an aide to Richard Nixon ) and United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, with an attached file from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee urging that British musician John Lennon ( living in New York City at the time ) be deported from the United States as an undesirable alien, due to Lennon's political views and activism.

********** HRH Prince William of Gloucester ( 1941 – 1972 )

* William Keith Chambers Guthrie ( 1957 – 1972 )

In 2009 Oneworld Publications reissued Man at Leisure ( 1972 ), complete with the original introduction by William Burroughs, and in 2011 Oneworld Publications also re-released Cain's Book, with a foreword by Tom McCarthy.

In July 1972, Heath permitted his Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, to hold unofficial talks in London with a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) delegation by Seán Mac Stiofáin.

On April 6, 1972, the sheriff and two sheriff's deputies were killed in a shootout while attempting to serve a warrant on Bert Grissom ; Sheriff Douglas Batey and Deputies Glen Ray Archer and Troy Key were killed ; Sheriff Batey was replaced by William Thomas Pond as Sheriff, but Sheriff Pond was killed also on June 8, 1973, in an automobile accident.

Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, at, upon completion in 1972 it was among the five tallest buildings in the world.