List of Famous people who died at 72

Orival Pessini was a Brazilian actor, comedian, and writer known for his characters Sócrates, Charles, Fofão, Patropi, Juvenal, Ranulpho Pereira, Hitler, Clô, Frank and others on programs and TV commercials, and also for using latex masks in the composition of his characters.

René Clermont was a 20th-century French stage and film actor as well as a playwright.

Renato Castellani was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He won the 1952 Gran Prix of the Cannes Film Festival for his film Two Cents Worth of Hope.

John "Johnny" Alan Wright was a British amateur boxer who won a silver medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He lost in the final to László Papp of Hungary. He was born in London.

Roberto Garcìa Romero, better known as Robeto Cobo, was a Mexican actor. He appeared in more than eighty films between 1947 and 2002.

Ronald "Tiny Ron" Taylor was an American film actor and former basketball player, known for his work in feature films such as The Rocketeer (1991) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), and in television series such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and as Al, the very tall police detective whose face is always above the frame-shot in the Police Squad! and The Naked Gun franchise. His roles tended to exploit his 7 ft frame.