List of Famous people who died in 1972
Ísis Dias de Oliveira
Raimund Schelcher
Raimund Schelcher was a German actor with Tanzanian citizenship who appeared in over 43 films and television programs between 1939 and 1971.
Klaus Herrmann
Hugh Stuart Trevor Goff
Gaby André
Gaby André (1920—1972) was a French film actress.
Edward Owen Cochrane
Lillian Williams
Martin Dies, Jr.
Martin Dies Jr. was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and after that to the six succeeding Congresses. In 1944, Dies did not seek renomination to the Seventy-ninth Congress, but was elected to the Eighty-third and to the two succeeding Congresses. Again, he did not seek renomination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress. In 1941 and 1957, he was twice defeated for the nomination to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. Dies served as the first chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities from 1937 through 1944.