List of Famous people who died in 1972

Sir William Flood Webb KBE was a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia. He was President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after the end of World War II.

Theodor Anton Blank was a German politician of the CDU. He was one of the founders of the CDU in 1945.

Sir Anthony Brutus Babington PC (NI) was an Anglo-Irish barrister, judge and politician.

Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk was a Ukrainian playwright, literary critic and state official.

Dorothy Dalton was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago; Terre Haute, Indiana; and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was working in Hollywood.

Jacques Deval (1895–1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director.

Johan Jacobsen was a Danish film director. His parents were theatre manager Jacob Jørgen Jacobsen (1865-1955) and actress Christel Holch (1886-1968).