List of Famous people who died in 1972

Arcadi Balaguer i Costa was president of FC Barcelona between 1925 and 1929.

Jóhannes Gunnarsson, SMM was an Icelandic prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Apostolic Vicar of Iceland from 1942 until his resignation in 1967.

René Mayer was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. He was born and died in Paris. He led the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958. He was France's second Prime Minister of Jewish descent.

Allen Joseph Ellender was a U.S. senator from Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana, who served from 1937 until 1972 when he died in office in Maryland at the age of eighty-one. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with Huey Long. As Senator he compiled a generally conservative record, voting 77% of the time with the Conservative Coalition on domestic issues. A staunch segregationist, he signed the Southern Manifesto in 1956, voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and opposed anti-lynching legislation in 1938. Unlike many Democrats he was not a "hawk" in foreign policy and opposed the Vietnam War.

Thomy Charles Bourdelle was a French actor.

Paul Due was a Norwegian footballer. He played in one match for the Norway national football team in 1912.

Pier Angelo Mazzolotti (1890–1972) was an Italian screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He directed the 1915 film Titanic which, despite its title, is not about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.