Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1972

José Miró Cardona fue un abogado y político cubano que se desempeñó como Primer Ministro y embajador en España, en los primeros dos años de la Revolución cubana que derrocó al dictador Fulgencio Batista el 1 de enero de 1959. Luego se volvió un opositor, debido al rumbo procomunista del gobierno. Exiliado en Miami participó activamente junto a la CIA de la fracasada invasión de Bahía de Cochinos en 1961, habiéndose decidido que, de triunfar, Miró asumiría como Presidente Provisional de Cuba.

Ștefan Procopiu was a Romanian physicist.

Neil Hosler McElroy was United States Secretary of Defense from 1957 to 1959 under President Eisenhower. He had been president of Procter & Gamble.

Nicolas Rashevsky fue un biólogo teórico ucraniano. Nacido en Chernicov, Ucrania, estudió física matemática en Rusia, Praga y París.

Walter Ernest How was an English sailor, known for taking part in the Ernest Shackleton-led Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition from 1914 to 1917.

Norman Savage (1930–1973) was an English film editor. He is credited as the principal editor on seven feature films, and as the sound editor on another four. He worked with the director David Lean on four films that spanned Savage's entire career. Lean has been noted as possibly "the best British film director ever", and was himself a masterful editor. Savage started his career as an assistant editor on Lean's Hobson's Choice (1954). Savage was Anne V. Coates' first assistant editor for Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Lean's 1965 film Doctor Zhivago, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter. Savage died of leukemia while editing the film Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). That film is the only one directed by Robert Bolt, a playwright and screenwriter who had worked on several films directed by Lean.