Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1972

Stephen Timoshenko fue un ingeniero ucraniano-estadounidense que es considerado el padre de la ingeniería mecánica moderna. Escribió trabajos que dieron nacimiento a áreas de la ingeniería mecánica, teoría de la elasticidad y resistencia de materiales, muchos de los cuales son extensamente utilizados hoy en día. Habiendo iniciado su carrera científica en el Imperio ruso, Timoshenko emigró a Yugoslavia durante la guerra civil rusa, emigrando luego a los Estados Unidos de América.

Frank Porter Graham was an American educator and political activist. A professor of history, he was elected President of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1930, and he later became the first President of the consolidated University of North Carolina system.

Fletcher Roseberry Jones was an American businessman, computer pioneer and thoroughbred racehorse owner.

Carol Karp, nacida como Carol Ruth Vander Velde, fue una matemática estadounidense de ascendencia holandesa, más conocida por su trabajo sobre lógica infinita. También tocó la viola en una orquesta de mujeres.

Alec Coppel was an Australian-born screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He spent the majority of his career in London and Hollywood, specialising in light thrillers, mysteries and sex comedies. He is best known for the films Vertigo (1958), The Captain's Paradise (1953), Mr Denning Drives North (1951) and Obsession (1949), and the plays I Killed the Count and The Gazebo.

Woodrow Stanley Lloyd was a Canadian politician and educator. Born in Saskatchewan in 1913, he became a teacher in the early 1930s. He worked as a teacher and school principal until 1944 and was involved with the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, eventually becoming its president.

Werner Bruno Wilhelm Hermann Stock was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films and television shows between 1932 and 1971.