List of Famous people who died in 1972

Moshe Weinberg was the coach of the Israeli international wrestling team as well as being the coach of Hapoel Tel Aviv. He was the Israeli youth champion in wrestling and also the adult champion for a period of 8 years.

Raymond Souplex was a French actor and singer. He was in a long-term relationship with Jane Sourza, although they never married.

Andre Spitzer, was a fencing master and coach of Israel's 1972 Summer Olympics team. He was one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by terrorists in the Munich massacre.

Luigi Mino Poggi was an Italian sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

José Asunción Flores was a Paraguayan composer and creator of the Guarania music genre.

Hans Georg Calmeyer was a German lawyer from Osnabrück who allegedly saved thousands of Jews from certain death during the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1941 until 1945. On 4 March 1992 Yad Vashem recognized Hans Calmeyer as Righteous Among the Nations. As of 2020, historians at Yad Vashem are presently looking into newly uncovered evidence suggesting that Calmeyer also helped send more than 500 people directly into death camps during the Dutch occupation.

María Edwards McClure was a Chilean social worker and Catholic nurse who was honored in November 2005 at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial as one of the "Righteous Among The Nations," for her participation during the Holocaust in helping to save Jewish children in France. Her actions were not limited to saving Jews but she also actively helped the French resistance.

Marie Dubas was a French music-hall singer, diseuse and comedian.

Boris Fyodorovich Porshnev was a Soviet historian known for his works on popular revolts in Ancien Régime France and a doctor of social sciences working on psychology, prehistory, and neurolinguistics as relating to the origins of man.

Hans Fitz (1891–1972) was a German actor and screenwriter.