List of Famous people who died at 72

Roger Price was an American humorist, author and publisher, who created Droodles in the 1950s, followed by his collaborations with Leonard B. Stern on the Mad Libs series. Price and Stern became partners with Larry Sloan in the publishing firm Price Stern Sloan.

Enzo Siciliano was an Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual.

Leone Minassian was an Italian painter and printmaker of Armenian descent. His work is an important representative of European post-war abstract painting. Minassian lived in Venice for more than 40 years.

Pierre Villette was a French composer of choral and instrumental music.

Stevo Teodosievski was a Macedonian artist, music educator and humanist. After a childhood in his hometown, he spent his youth in Belgrade, returning to Kočani after World War II. Stevo Teodosievski died in Skopje on 9 April 1997.

Dorothy Louise Walton,, née McKenzie was a Canadian badminton player who is the only Canadian ever to win the All England Open Badminton Championships, winning the Women's Singles in 1939.

Francisco 'Paco' Bienzobas Ocáriz was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.

David Mervyn Blow was an influential British biophysicist. He was best known for the development of X-ray crystallography, a technique used to determine the molecular structures of tens of thousands of biological molecules. This has been extremely important to the pharmaceutical industry.