List of Famous people who died at 72

Susannah Yolande Fletcher, known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), formed the basis of her international reputation. An obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging sixties", who later "proved that she was a real actor of extraordinary emotional range".

John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Train (1964), Seconds (1966), Grand Prix (1966), French Connection II (1975), Black Sunday (1977), Ronin (1998), and Reindeer Games (2000).

Jaroslav Kubera was a Czech Civic Democratic politician who served as Senator representing Teplice from 2000 and the President of the Senate from 2018 until his death in 2020, becoming the first high-ranking Czech official to die in the office. He previously served as mayor of Teplice from 1994 to 2018.

Cecilia Cenci was an Argentinian film, stage and television actress. She was born in La Plata.

Leah Rabin was the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.

Alice Orlowski was a German concentration camp guard at several of the Nazi German camps in occupied Poland during World War II. After the war, she was convicted of war crimes.

Jean-Pierre Baeumler was a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, he served as Deputy, Regional Councillor, and Mayor of Thann.

George Victor Bishop, known professionally as Ed Bishop, was an American actor, based in the UK. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler.

Miranda Elizabeth Louise Macmillan, Countess of Stockton was a British socialite and fashion model.

Ivan Grigorievich Drachenko was a Soviet Il-2 pilot and the only aviator awarded both the title Hero of the Soviet Union and been a full bearer of the Order of Glory.