List of Famous people who died in 1972
Died on March 12, 1972 (aged 83)
Vasiliy Grigorievich Fesenkov was a Soviet Russian astrophysicist.
Died on February 17, 1972 (aged 2)
Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov was a Soviet Russian composer.
Died on December 28, 1972 (aged 68)
Sara Mahala Redway Smith
Died on July 19, 1972 (aged 74)
Sally Benson was an American author of short stories and screenwriter. She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in Junior Miss and her semi-autobiographical stories collected in Meet Me in St. Louis.
Died on February 19, 1972 (aged 65)
Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III was a screenwriter of American animated cartoons, principally from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s.
Died on May 27, 1972 (aged 83)
José Mariano Garibi y Rivera, was a Cardinal and Archbishop of Guadalajara. He was the first Mexican cardinal of the Catholic Church.
Died on March 8, 1972 (aged 89)
Theodor Meyer was a German mathematician, a student of Ludwig Prandtl, and a founder of the scientific discipline now known as compressible flow or gas dynamics.
Died on January 1, 1972 (aged 92)
Died on June 13, 1972 (aged 43)
Died on January 1, 1972 (aged 85)
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