List of Famous people who died in 1972

Natalie Clifford Barney was an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris.

Josephus Carel Franciscus (Jef) Last was a Dutch poet, writer, translator and cosmopolitan.

Edmund Wilson was an American writer and literary critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes. He influenced many American authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publication. His scheme for a Library of America series of national classic works came to fruition through the efforts of Jason Epstein after Wilson's death.

Pierre-Henri Simon was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He won the Prix Ève Delacroix in 1963

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Thomas Birch Reynardson was an officer in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry of the British Army. He was the son of William John Birch Reynardson and married Diana Helen Ponsonby, daughter of the Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby and Emily Dora Coope, on 14 September 1917.

Anne Zernike (1887–1972) was a Dutch, liberal theologian, who was the first ordained woman minister of the Netherlands. Though she began her career with the Mennonites, which was the only congregation that allowed female ministers at the time, the majority of her career was spent in the Dutch Protestant Association (NPB).

Antonio Segni was an Italian politician and statesman who served as 4th President of Italy from May 1962 to December 1964 and 34th Prime Minister in two distinct terms between 1955 and 1960.