List of Famous people who died at 72

Ömer Naci Soykan was a Turkish philosopher.

Charles Keating was an English actor.

Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. From 1967 until his death, he was the art critic of The New Yorker.

Otto Waldis was an Austrian-American character actor in films and television from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was also billed as Otto Blum.

Thakur Ram Lal was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress in Himachal Pradesh. He was born in a family of Rajput caste.

Rom Rubenovich Varshamov was a Soviet Armenian mathematician who worked in Coding theory, especially on error-correcting codes and Number theory.