Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1972

Nadhim Kzar was the first head of the Iraqi Directorate of General Security.

Kensaku Segoe was a professional Go player.

Gabriel Cusson was a Canadian composer and music educator. As a composer, his music was heavily influenced by the style of early 20th-century French composers. Most of his work remains unpublished, although a few of his compositions have been recorded including his Sérénade for orchestra and one of his suites by the Orchestre Métropolitain. The Canadian publishing company La Bonne Chanson has printed a number of his folksong arrangements. His other unpublished works include several motets, the cantata À la gloire de Jeanne Mance (1942), and incidental music for Antigone and the biblical dramas Jonathas and Tobie.

Mijaíl Ilariónovich Artamónov fue un arqueólogo e historiador soviético, reconocido como el padre de los estudios modernos sobre los jázaros.