Birth Chart and Horoscope of 1972 deaths
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Albino Donati
- Alby Outen
- Alec Seward
- Alejandra Pizarnik
- André Héléna
- Annie Lola Price
- Arnaldo Carli
- Arthur Aspinall (historian)
- Arthur H. Butler
- Arthur Kallet
- Arturo Moroni
- Aubrey Comben
- Augustus Charles Newman
- Ángel Riesco Carbajo
- Beatrix Waring McCay
- Benny Bond
- Bernard Croucher
- Bertil Almqvist
- Bill Berry (footballer, born 1904)
- Billy Burke (golfer)
- Billy Murcia
- Bob McCracken
- Boby Lapointe
- Carl Bacchus
- Carl Hooper (footballer)
- Carlena Beard
- Carlo Jørgensen
- Carlos Van den Driessche
- Charles J. Kersten
- Charles King-Turner
- Charles Litton Sr.
- Charles de Beaumont
- Chester R. Allen
- Clarence Passailaigue
- Cléo de Verberena
- Daisho Tana
- Dan Blocker
- Daniel Lagache
- Dike Beede
- Dino Buzzati
- Dizzy Trout
- Don Loper
- Donald Wilkins
- Donald Wing
- Doug Brennan
- Dutch Dietz
- Ed Walker (American football)
- Edward Cochrane McLean
- Edwin E. Willis
- Elmer Raguse
- Emilio Schuberth
- Eric Johansson (athlete)
- Eric Weissel
- Ernst von Salomon
- Erwin Hagedorn
- Eugene M. Locke
- Fletcher Jones
- Folke Bohlin (sailor)
- Francesco von Mendelssohn
- Frank T. Bow
- Fred Bedford
- Fred Tilson
- Fritiof Billquist
- Gabriel Ferrater
- Gejus van der Meulen
- George Bishop (rugby league)
- George F. Ellis
- George Sanders
- George Scott Register
- George Simpson (Royal Navy officer)
- George W. Taylor (professor)
- George Randolph Hearst
- Georges Langelaan
- Gerard Donaghy
- Gil Hodges
- Gladys Mackenzie
- Gladys Schmitt
- Guillermo Robson
- Gunnlaugur Scheving
- Gérard Devos
- Göran Gentele
- Günter Eich
- Hal Jr. Roach
- Harold Pearson (footballer, born 1901)
- Harry Harrison (Australian footballer)
- Harry Woods (rugby union)
- Hein Vos
- Henry Bamford Parkes
- Henry Martineau
- Herbert Lippschitz
- Horace Mann Bond
- Héctor Milberg
- Ian Smith (rugby union, born 1903)
- Irène Tunc
- Isabel Jewell
- Ivan Brandt
- Jack Cummings (tennis)
- Jackie (1919) Robinson
- James Oakley (footballer)
- James Yimm Lee
- Jan Engelman
- Jean Garrigue
- Jerry Critchlow
- Jim Duncan
- Jimmy Cringan
- Joe Brooks (fly fisherman)
- Joe Craven (footballer)
- Joe Scott (footballer, born 1901)
- John Berryman
- John Daniel Wild
- John Doehring
- John Montague (golfer)
- John W. Lord Jr.
- John Barnes Chance
- John Harvey Forbes Crombie
- Johnny Mantz
- Jose Limon
- Josep Samitier
- Joseph Cornell
- Juan Carlos Milberg
- Julian Steward
- K. P. Gatchell
- Karel Kaers
- Kenne Duncan
- Kenneth M. Swezey
- Kenneth Patchen
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Lale Andersen
- Lance Reventlow
- Leon Sacks
- Les Harvey
- Liang Sicheng
- Linton McGee Collins
- Lucien Rebatet
- Luigi Calabresi
- Luther Roberts
- Malcolm Biggs
- Mani Matter
- Maria Dulce Rodrigues dos Santos
- Mark Nicholls (rugby union)
- Martin Schröttle
- Matthew C. Horner
- Maurice Thiriet
- Max Aub
- Max Simmers
- Mike Cosgrove (footballer)
- Mildred J. Berryman
- Miriam Hopkins
- Ned McSweeney
- Nikola Shterev
- Nino Bolzoni
- Niño Ricardo
- Norman Cottom
- Norman Fox (cricketer)
- Norman Percy Allen
- Oscar Levant
- Paul E. Adolph
- Paul Wolf
- Pierre Brasseur
- Pierre de Hérain
- Pieter Jacobszoon
- Prince William of Gloucester
- Prince of Saxe-Coburg Johann Leopold
- Raymond Souplex
- Reginald Watson-Jones
- Robert Le Vigan
- Robert Weede
- Roberto Clemente
- Roger K. Furse
- Roger Moret (composer)
- Roscoe C. Martin
- Roy Donovan
- Rube McCray
- Sherwin Badger
- Stefan Wolpe
- Stephen Spargo
- Syed Khalil-ur-Rehman
- Sykes Reed
- Takabayashi Ginji
- Ted Bates (executive)
- Ted Robinson (footballer)
- Tom Dougherty (union official)
- Tom Hart (Australian politician)
- Tom Neal
- Tommy Boyle (footballer, born 1901)
- Tommy McHenry
- Tord Palander
- Ugo Cantelli
- Vic Sorrell
- Victor Bateman
- Violette Leduc
- W. Ross Ashby
- Waldemar Hammenhög
- Warren Kealoha
- Werner Klingler
- William T. Grant
- Wilson Carraway
- Zaki Rostom
- Zora Folley