Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1972

Pierre de Hérain was a French film director.

Magnus Alexander Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German civil servant and conservative politician whose career spanned the German Empire, World War I and the Weimar Republic. He served as the Federal Minister of Nutrition and Agriculture from 1 June 1932 to 28 January 1933.

Julia Warhola was the mother of the American artist Andy Warhol.

Margaret Webster was an American-British theater actress, producer and director. Critic George Jean Nathan described her as "the best director of the plays of Shakespeare that we have".

Aharon Katzir fue un pionero israelí de origen ruso en el estudio de la electroquímica de biopolímeros. Fue asesinado en la masacre del Aeropuerto de Lod en 1972.

Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.

Christopher John Henry Roper-Curzon, 19th Baron Teynham DSO DSC, was a career officer of the Royal Navy and an English peer, with a seat from 1936 in the House of Lords, where from 1946 to 1959 he was Deputy to the Earl of Drogheda and then to Lord Merthyr as Chairman of Committees.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He was the first African-American to be elected to Congress from New York, as well as the first from any state in the Northeast. Re-elected for nearly three decades, Powell became a powerful national politician of the Democratic Party, and served as a national spokesman on civil rights and social issues. He also urged United States presidents to support emerging nations in Africa and Asia as they gained independence after colonialism.