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Within the context of [[Coordinated Universal Time]] (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two [[leap second]]s were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.<ref>{{cite web|title=TAI−UTC (1972-01-01 – 2025-06-28)|date=4 July 2024|access-date=2 January 2025|url=https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/Leap_Second.dat}}</ref> (If its start and end are defined using [[Solar time|mean solar time]] [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of [[Terrestrial Time]] (or [[Ephemeris Time]]), which is slightly shorter than [[1908 in science#Astronomy|1908]]).<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A|author1=Stephenson, F. R.|author2=Morrison, L. V.|year=1984|volume=313|issue=1524|pages=47–70|title=Long-Term Changes in the Rotation of the Earth: 700 B. C. to A. D. 1980|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|doi=10.1098/rsta.1984.0082|bibcode=1984RSPTA.313...47S|s2cid=120566848}}</ref>
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==Events==

===January===
{{Main|January 1972}}
* [[January 1]] – [[Kurt Waldheim]] becomes [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-waldheim-factbox/factbox-the-life-of-ex-un-head-kurt-waldheim-idUSL1487718320070614|title=FACTBOX: The life of ex-U.N. head Kurt Waldheim|date=June 14, 2007|access-date=June 8, 2019|agency=Reuters}}</ref>
* [[January 4]] – The first scientific hand-held calculator ([[HP-35]]) is introduced (price $395).<ref>{{cite book|title=1976 WESCON Technical Papers: Western Electronic Show and Convention : Papers Presented at the Western Electronic Show and Convention in Los Angeles, California, September 14–17, 1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2klGAQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Western Electronic Show and Convention|page=1}}</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[Iberia Airlines Flight 602]] crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of [[Ibiza]]; 104 are killed.
* [[January 9]] – The [[RMS Queen Elizabeth|RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'']] catches fire and sinks in Hong Kong's Victoria harbor while undergoing conversion to a floating university.<ref>{{Cite web |author=|date=2009-11-13 |title=Fire breaks out on former RMS Queen Elizabeth {{!}} January 9, 1972 |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-9/fire-breaks-out-on-queen-elizabeth |access-date=2025-09-04 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – Independence leader [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] returns to [[Bangladesh]] after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.<ref name="Johari1991">{{cite book|author=J. C. Johari|title=Governments and Politics of South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZF0hAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Link Press|isbn=978-1-873444-00-9|page=378}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares a new constitutional government in Bangladesh, with himself as president.<ref name="Johari1991"/>
* [[January 12]] – In a 10-hour siege, a cell of 4 left-wing insurgents hold off a task force of 2500 army soldiers and police agents in [[Santo Domingo]], [[Dominican Republic]]: eight members of the security forces and the entire insurgent cell are killed in the course of the siege.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.diariolibre.com%2Fespeciales%2Freportajes%2Fla-intensa-batalla-en-que-acribillaron-a-los-palmeros-GK11820723|title=La intensa batalla en que acribillaron a Los Palmeros|website=Diario Libre|access-date=September 2, 2021}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – Prime Minister of [[Ghana]] [[Kofi Abrefa Busia]] is overthrown in a military coup by Colonel [[Ignatius Kutu Acheampong]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Africa: The Political, Military and Business Leaders of Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA4ZAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=African Development|isbn=978-0-9502755-0-5|page=162}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] – Queen [[Margrethe II of Denmark]] succeeds her father, King [[Frederik IX of Denmark|Frederik IX]], on the throne of Denmark, the first queen regnant of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
*[[January 18]] – Members of the [[Mukti Bahini]] lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent [[Bangladesh]], 33 days after winning the war against the occupying [[Pakistan Army]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1027878cf31917aa32db9fe6d6d1635f|title=Bangladesh Guerrilla Fighters Give Up Arms in Dhaka|agency=Associated Press|access-date=March 8, 2021|date=January 18, 1972}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – The [[Libertarianism|Libertarian]] enclave [[Republic of Minerva|Minerva]] on a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the [[Phoenix Foundation]], declares independence. Soon neighboring [[Tonga]] annexes the area and dismantles the platform.
* [[January 20]] – President [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] announces that Pakistan will immediately begin a [[nuclear weapon]]s program.
* [[January 21]]
** A New Delhi [[moonshine|bootlegger]] sells [[methanol|wood alcohol]] to a wedding party; 100 people die.
** [[Tripura]], part of the former independent [[Twipra Kingdom]], becomes a full [[States and union territories of India|state of India]].
* [[January 24]] – Japanese soldier [[Shoichi Yokoi]] is discovered in [[Guam]]; he has spent 28 years in the jungle, having failed to surrender after [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book|last=LastName|first=FirstName|title=The last Japanese soldier: Corporal Yokoi's 28 incredible years in the Guam jungle|publisher=Tom Stacey Ltd|location=London|year=1972|isbn=9780854682935|page=7}}</ref>
* [[January 26]]
** [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]n air stewardess [[Vesna Vulović]] is the only survivor when her plane crashes in [[Czechoslovakia]]. She survives after falling {{convert|10160|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}} in the tail section of the aircraft.<ref>{{cite news|last=Zimonjic|first=Vesna|newspaper=The Independent|title=Too good to be true? Miracle woman who survived '33,000ft fall'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/too-good-to-be-true-miracle-woman-who-survived-33000ft-fall-6294556.html|date=January 26, 2012|access-date=August 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810043228/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/too-good-to-be-true-miracle-woman-who-survived-33000ft-fall-6294556.html|archive-date=August 10, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> 
** The [[Aboriginal Tent Embassy]] is set up on the lawn of [[Parliament House, Canberra|Parliament House]] in [[Canberra]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lines|first=William|title=Taming the great south land : a history of the conquest of nature in Australia|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|year=1991|isbn=9780520078307|page=244}}</ref>
* [[January 30]]
** [[Bloody Sunday (1972)|Bloody Sunday]]: The British Army kills 14 unarmed [[Irish nationalism|nationalist]] civil rights marchers in [[Derry]], Northern Ireland.
** [[Pakistan]] withdraws from the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1972-01-31 |title=Bhutto Removes Pakistan From the Commonwealth (Published 1972) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/31/archives/bhutto-removes-pakistan-from-the-commonwealth-he-acts-after-being.html |access-date=2025-09-14 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 31]] – King [[Birendra of Nepal|Birendra]] succeeds his father as King of [[Nepal]].

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1972}}
* [[February 2]]
** A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in [[West Berlin]], killing Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baumann|first=Michael|title=Wie alles anfing = How it all began : the personal account of a West German urban guerrilla|publisher=Pulp Press|location=Vancouver|year=2000|isbn=9780889780453|page=5}}</ref> The German militant group [[June 2 Movement]] claims responsibility, announcing its support of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]].
** Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. The [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Dublin|British Embassy in Dublin]] is [[Burning of the British Embassy in Dublin|burned to the ground]], as are several British-owned businesses.<ref>{{cite book|last=Day|first=Alan|title=Political violence in Northern Ireland : conflict and conflict resolution|publisher=Praeger|location=Westport, Conn|year=1997|isbn=9780275954147|page=9}}</ref>
* [[February 3]]–[[February 13|13]] – The [[1972 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Sapporo]], Japan.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ski|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWCke6Y6KzYC&pg=PA52|date=February 1972|pages=52}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] – ''[[Mariner 9]]'' sends pictures as it orbits [[Mars]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=In Depth {{!}} Mariner 09|url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mariner-09/in-depth|access-date=2023-05-09|website=NASA Solar System Exploration}}</ref>
* [[February 15]] – President of [[Ecuador]] [[José María Velasco Ibarra]] is deposed for the fourth time.
* [[February 17]] – [[Volkswagen Beetle]] sales exceed those of the [[Ford Model T]] when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced.
* [[February 19]] – [[Asama-Sansō incident]]: Five [[United Red Army]] members break into a lodge below [[Mount Asama]] in Japan, taking the wife of the lodgekeeper hostage.
* [[February 21]] – The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] uncrewed [[Spacecraft|spaceship]] ''[[Luna 20]]'' lands on the [[Moon]].
* [[February 21]]–[[February 28|28]] – U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] makes an unprecedented [[1972 Nixon visit to China|8-day visit]] to the People's Republic of China and meets with [[Mao Zedong]].
* [[February 22]]
** [[The Troubles]]: [[1972 Aldershot bombing]] – A car bomb planted by the [[Official Irish Republican Army]] kills seven people outside a British military base in [[Aldershot]], England.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/feb/23/ira-bomb-paras-aldershot-1972 "From the archives: IRA kills 7 in raid on Paras' English base"] – ''[[The Guardian]]'' (February 23, 1972)</ref>
** [[Lufthansa Flight 649]] is hijacked and taken to [[Aden]]. Passengers are released the following day after a ransom of 5&nbsp;million US dollars is agreed.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States Congress|title=Legal Mechanisms to Combat Terrorism: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Availability of Civil and Criminal Actions Against Yassir Arrafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), April 23, 1986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IGEvupLgOuQC&pg=PA224|year=1986|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=224}}</ref>
* [[February 23]] – US activist [[Angela Davis]] is released from jail. Rodger McAfee, a farmer from [[Caruthers, California]], helps her make bail.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bettina Aptheker|title=The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VE-nAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT122|date=February 15, 2014|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-7013-4|page=122}}</ref>
* [[February 26]] – ''[[Luna 20]]'' comes back to Earth with {{convert|55|g|oz|abbr=off}} of lunar soil.
* [[February 28]] – The Asama-Sansō incident ends in a standoff between 5 members of the Japanese United Red Army and the authorities, in which two policemen are killed and 12 injured.

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1972}}
* [[March 1]] – [[Juan María Bordaberry]] is sworn in as [[President of Uruguay]] amid accusations of electoral fraud.<ref>{{cite book|title=Foreign Economic Trends and Their Implications for the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UU99EAsO_soC&pg=PA4|year=1972|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Industry and Trade Administration|pages=4}}</ref>
* [[March 2]]
** The [[Club of Rome]] presents the research results leading to its report ''[[The Limits to Growth]]'', published later in the month.<ref>{{cite book|author=Don McNeil|title=Interactive Statistics: Proceedings of the Applied Statistics Conference, Sydney, February 8–9, 1979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MRrvAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=North-Holland Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-444-85412-4|page=114}}</ref>
** The ''[[Pioneer 10]]'' spacecraft is launched from [[Cape Kennedy]], to be the first man-made spacecraft to leave the [[Solar System]].
** [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] becomes President of the [[Central African Republic]].
* [[March 4]]
** [[Libyan Arab Republic|Libya]] and the [[Soviet Union]] sign a cooperation treaty.
** The [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation|Organisation of the Islamic Conference]] Charter is signed (effective February 28, 1973).
* [[March 19]] – India and [[Bangladesh]] sign the [[Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace]].
* [[March 22]] 
**The [[92nd U.S. Congress]] votes to send the proposed [[Equal Rights Amendment]] to the states for ratification.
**''[[Eisenstadt v. Baird]]'': The Supreme Court of the U.S. rules that unmarried people have the right to access contraception on the same basis as married couples<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972) |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/405/438/ |access-date=2025-09-27 |website=Justia Law |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – "[[Après toi]]" sung by [[Vicky Leandros]] (music by Klaus Munro & Mario Panas, lyric by Klaus Munro & Yves Dessca) wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1972]] (staged in Edinburgh) for [[Luxembourg]].
* [[March 26]] – An [[avalanche]] on [[Mount Fuji]] in Japan kills 19 climbers.
* [[March 27]] – The [[First Sudanese Civil War]] ends.
* [[March 30]] – [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Easter Offensive]] begins after [[North Vietnam]]ese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of [[South Vietnam]]

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1972}}
*[[April 4]] &ndash; The U.S. formally recognizes [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/05/archives/bangladesh-gets-us-recognition-promise-of-help-rogers-announces-the.html|title=Bangladesh Gets U.S. Recognition, Promise of Help|work=The New York Times|date=April 5, 1972}}</ref>
* [[April 10]]
** The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the [[Biological Weapons Convention]], an agreement to ban [[biological warfare]].<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations|title=Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations... December 10, 1974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_mHQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA21|year=1974|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=21}}</ref>
** [[Yinqueshan Han Tombs|Tombs]] containing [[Yinqueshan Han Slips|bamboo slips]], among them [[Sun Tzu]]'s ''[[The Art of War|Art of War]]'' and [[Sun Bin]]'s lost [[Sun Bin's Art of War|military treatise]], are accidentally discovered by construction workers in [[Shandong]].
** The 6.7 {{M|w}} [[1972 Qir earthquake|Qir earthquake]] shakes southern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 5,374 people in the province of [[Fars province|Fars]].
** The [[44th Academy Awards|44th Annual Academy Awards]] are held at the [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] in Los Angeles.
* [[April 13]] – The [[Universal Postal Union]] decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the [[Republic of China]] administering [[Taiwan]].
* [[April 16]]
** [[Apollo 16]] ([[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]], [[Ken Mattingly]], [[Charlie Duke]]) is launched.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-15 |title=50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 Launches to the Moon - NASA |url=https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-apollo-16-launches-to-the-moon/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |language=en-US}}</ref> During the mission, the astronauts, driving the [[Lunar Roving Vehicle]], achieve a [[lunar rover]] speed record of 17&nbsp;km/h.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Apollo 16 Essay |url=https://www.honeysucklecreek.net/msfn_missions/Apollo_16_mission/hl_apollo16.html |access-date=2025-07-10 |website=www.honeysucklecreek.net}}</ref>
** [[Vietnam War]]: Nguyen Hue Offensive – Prompted by the [[North Vietnam]]ese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of [[Hanoi]] and [[Haiphong]].
* [[April 26]] – The [[Lockheed L-1011 TriStar]] enters service with [[Eastern Airlines]].
* [[April 27]]
** ''[[Ikiza]]'': [[Burundi]] government forces begin a 4-month genocide against the [[Hutu]] people, killing 100,000–300,000.
** A no-confidence vote against [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|German Chancellor]] [[Willy Brandt]] fails under obscure circumstances.
* [[April 29]] – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] protesters and the show's co-author, [[Jim Rado]], are arrested for disturbing the peace and for using marijuana.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1972}}
* [[May 2]] – Fire at the [[Sunshine Mine]], a [[silver]] mine in [[Idaho]], kills 91.<ref>{{cite web|title=1972 Sunshine Mining Company Mining Disaster, Kellogg, Idaho|url=https://arlweb.msha.gov/DISASTER/SUNSHINE/ss1.asp|website=Mining Disasters – An Exhibition|publisher=U.S. Dept. of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration|access-date=December 15, 2018|archive-date=December 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215070337/https://arlweb.msha.gov/DISASTER/SUNSHINE/ss1.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] – An [[Alitalia]] [[DC-8]] [[Alitalia Flight 112|crashes]] west of [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]]; 115 die.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=Accident Douglas DC-8-43 I-DIWB, Friday 5 May 1972 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/330520 |access-date=2025-09-28 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] – [[1972 Italian general election|General elections]] are held in Italy.
* [[May 10]] – [[Operation Linebacker]] and [[Operation Custom Tailor]] begin with large-scale bombing operations against North Vietnam by tactical fighter aircraft.
* [[May 13]] – A [[Sennichi Department Store Building fire|fire in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store]] in [[Osaka]], Japan, kills 115.
* [[May 21]] – In [[St. Peter's Basilica]] ([[Vatican City]]), [[Laszlo Toth]] attacks [[Michelangelo]]'s ''[[Pietà (Michelangelo)|Pietà]]'' statue with a [[geologist's hammer]], shouting that he is [[Jesus Christ]].
* [[May 22]]
** The [[Dominion of Ceylon]] becomes the republic of [[Sri Lanka]] under prime minister [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]], when its new [[constitution]] is ratified.<ref>{{cite book|author=A. R. Sriskanda Rajah|title=Government and Politics in Sri Lanka: Biopolitics and Security|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDAlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|date=April 21, 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-96800-3|pages=44}}</ref>
** [[Ferit Melen]] forms the new (interim) government of [[Turkey]] (35th government)
* [[May 23]] – The Tamil United Front (later known as [[Tamil United Liberation Front]]), a pro-[[Tamils|Tamil]] organization, is founded in Sri Lanka.
* [[May 26]]
** [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Leonid Brezhnev]] sign the [[SALT I treaty]] in Moscow, as well as the [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]] and other agreements.
** [[Willandra National Park]] is established in Australia.
* [[May 27]] – [[Mark Donohue]] wins the [[1972 Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500]] in a [[Penske Racing]] [[McLaren]]–[[Offenhauser]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Xe9VAAAAIBAJ&pg=2494%2C7042731|work=Eugene Register-Guard|location= Oregon |agency=Associated Press|title=Donohue bides time, then charges to victory|date=May 28, 1972|page=1B}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] 
** [[Lod Airport massacre]]: Three [[Japanese Red Army]] members operating on behalf of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations]] kill 26 and injure 80 people at [[Lod Airport]], [[Israel]].<ref>Jeffrey D. Simon, ''The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism'', [[Indiana University Press]], p. 324. {{ISBN|0-253-21477-7}}</ref>
** [[The Troubles]]: The [[Official Irish Republican Army]] declares a ceasefire.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/30/newsid_2973000/2973759.stm|title=1972: Official IRA declares ceasefire|date=May 30, 1972|publisher=BBC News}}</ref>

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1972}}
* June – [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]] [[nationalization|nationalizes]] the [[Iraq Petroleum Company]].
* [[June 3]] – [[Sally Priesand]] becomes the first American woman (and the second known woman anywhere) to be ordained as a [[rabbi]] within Judaism.<ref>{{cite news|last=Blau|first=Eleanor|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/04/archives/1st-woman-rabbi-in-us-ordained-she-may-be-only-the-second-in.html|title=1st Woman Rabbi in U.S. Ordained; She May Be Only the Second in History of Judaism|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 4, 1972|access-date=2009-09-17}}</ref>
* [[June 5]]–[[June 16|16]] – The [[United Nations Conference on the Human Environment]] is held in Stockholm, [[Sweden]]
* [[June 8]]
** Seven men and three women hijack a plane from [[Czechoslovakia]] to West Germany.
** [[Vietnam War]]: [[Associated Press]] photographer [[Nick Ut]] takes his [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old [[Phan Thi Kim Phuc]] running down a road after being burned by [[napalm]].
* [[June 9]] – The [[Black Hills flood]] kills 238 in [[South Dakota]].
* [[June 11]] – [[Henri Pescarolo]] (France) and co-driver former [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Drivers' Champion]] [[Graham Hill]] (Britain) win the [[1972 24 Hours of Le Mans|24 Hours of Le Mans]] in the [[Equipe Matra Sports|Equipe Matra]] MS670.
* [[June 12]] – [[Popeyes]] was formed in Arabi, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, in St. Bernard Parish.
* [[June 14]]–[[June 23|23]] – [[Hurricane Agnes]] kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.
* [[June 14]] – [[Japan Airlines Flight 471]] crashes outside New Delhi airport, killing 82 of 87 occupants.
* [[June 16]] – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near [[Soissons]], France.
* [[June 17]]
** [[Watergate scandal]]: Five [[White House]] operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the [[Democratic National Committee]].
** [[Chile]]an president [[Salvador Allende]] forms a new government.
* [[June 18]]
** [[Staines air disaster]]: 118 die when a British European Airways [[Hawker Siddeley Trident|Trident 1]] jet airliner crashes two minutes after takeoff from [[London Heathrow Airport]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Staines air crash: Memorial held for one of UK's worst air crashes|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-61822837|publisher=BBC News|access-date=June 21, 2022|date=June 18, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] beats the [[USSR national football team|Soviet Union]] 3–0 in the final to win [[1972 European Football Championship|Euro '72]].
** Hong Kong's worst flooding and landslides in recorded history with {{convert|653.2|mm}} of rainfall in the previous three days. 67 people die due to building collapses in Mid-levels districts landslide and building collapses, with a further 83 due to flooding-related fatalities. It is the second worst fatality due to building collapses, and the worst flooding in Hong Kong's recorded history.
* [[June 23]]
** [[Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] and [[White House]] chief of staff [[H. R. Haldeman]] are taped talking about using the [[Central Intelligence Agency|C.I.A.]] to obstruct the investigation by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|F.B.I.]] into the Watergate break-ins.
** The United Kingdom [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], [[Anthony Barber]], announces a decision for the [[pound sterling]] to move to a [[floating exchange rate]]. Although intended to be temporary, this remains permanent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/23/newsid_2518000/2518927.stm|title=Chancellor orders pound flotation|work=On This Day|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2008-01-27|date=June 23, 1972|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113551/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/23/newsid_2518000/2518927.stm|archive-date=2008-03-07|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Foreign exchange controls]] are applied to most members of the [[sterling area]].
* [[June 30]] – The [[International Time Bureau]] adds the first [[leap second]] (23:59:60) of this year to [[Coordinated Universal Time]] (UTC).

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1972}}
* [[July 1]] – The Canadian ketch ''[[Greenpeace#After Amchitka|Vega]]'', flying the [[Greenpeace]] III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper ''La Paimpolaise'' while in [[international waters]] to protest French nuclear weapon [[Moruroa|tests]] in the [[Oceania|South Pacific]].
* [[July 2]] – Following [[Pakistan]]'s surrender to India in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]], both nations sign the historic [[Simla Agreement]], agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally.
* [[July 4]] – The first [[Rainbow Gathering]] is held in [[Colorado]].
* [[July 10]] – At least 24 people have been killed by elephants crazed by heat and drought in separate incidents in the [[Chandaka Elephant Sanctuary|Chandka Forest]] of India, according to news agency reports.
* [[July 11]]
** The long anticipated [[World Chess Championship 1972|chess match]] between world champion [[Boris Spassky]] of the Soviet Union, and United States champion [[Bobby Fischer]], begins in [[Iceland]] at [[Reykjavík]].
** [[Curtis Mayfield]] releases the [[soundtrack]] to the 1972 film, ''[[Super Fly (soundtrack)|Super Fly]]''.
* [[July 10]]–[[July 14|14]] – The [[1972 Democratic National Convention|Democratic National Convention]] meets in [[Miami Beach]]. Senator [[George McGovern]], who backs the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from [[South Vietnam]], is nominated for president. He names fellow Senator [[Thomas Eagleton]] as his running mate.
* [[July 18]] – [[Anwar Sadat]] expels 20,000 Soviet advisors from [[Egypt]].
* [[July 21]]
** [[The Troubles]]: [[Bloody Friday (1972)|Bloody Friday]] – 22 bombs planted by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] explode in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]; nine people are killed and 130 seriously injured.<ref name="CAIN1972">{{cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch72.htm|title=CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict – 1972|publisher=Cain.ulst.ac.uk|access-date=2012-05-17|archive-date=March 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305015858/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch72.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** A collision between two trains near [[Seville]], Spain, kills 76 people.
* [[July 23]] – The United States launches [[Landsat 1]], the first Earth-resources [[satellite]].
* [[July 24]] – [[Jigme Singye Wangchuck]] succeeds his father [[Jigme Dorji Wangchuck]] as King of [[Bhutan]].
* [[July 25]] – U.S. health officials admit that African-American men were used as guinea pigs in the [[Tuskegee Syphilis Study]] without their informed consent.
* [[July 27]] – The [[McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle]] fighter aircraft makes its first flight in the United States.
* [[July 31]] – [[The Troubles]], [[Northern Ireland]]:
** [[Operation Motorman]] 4:00&nbsp;<small>AM</small>: The British Army begins to regain control of the "[[no-go area]]s" established by [[Irish republicanism|Irish republican]] [[paramilitary|paramilitaries]] in [[Belfast]], [[Derry]] ("[[Free Derry]]") and [[Newry]].<ref name="CAIN1972" />
** [[Claudy bombing]] ("Bloody Monday"), 10:00&nbsp;<small>AM</small>: Three [[car bombs]] in [[Claudy]], [[County Londonderry]], kill nine. It becomes public knowledge only in [[2010]] that a local [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|priest]] was an [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] officer believed to be involved in the bombings but his role was covered up by the authorities.<ref>{{cite news|title=Claudy bomb: conspiracy allowed IRA priest to go free|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11061296|publisher=BBC News Northern Ireland|date=August 24, 2010|access-date=2010-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825014212/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11061296|archive-date=August 25, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1972}}
* [[August 4]]
** [[Expulsion of Asians from Uganda]]: Dictator [[Idi Amin]] declares that [[Uganda]] will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months.<ref>{{cite book|author=New York University. International Law Society|title=New York University Journal of International Law & Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPsdAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=New York University School of Law|page=603}}</ref> Most of their property is confiscated.
** [[August 1972 solar storms]]: A huge [[solar flare]] (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in the U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until [[August 10]].
* [[August 10]] – [[1972 Great Daylight Fireball]]: A brilliant meteor is seen in the western U.S. and Canada as an [[Apollo asteroid]] skips off the Earth's atmosphere.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9806/impact.html|title=Observation of Meteoroid Impacts by Space-Based Sensors|first=Edward|last=Tagliaferri|publisher=astrosociety.org|journal=Mercury Magazine|volume=27|issue=6|pages=18|date=November–December 1998|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020025037/http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/9806/impact.html|archive-date=2007-10-20|bibcode=1998Mercu..27f..18T}}</ref>
* [[August 12]] – Oil tankers [[Oswego-Guardian–Texanita collision|''Oswego-Guardian'' and ''Texanita'' collide]] near [[Stilbaai]], South Africa.
* [[August 14]] – An [[East Germany|East German]] [[Ilyushin]] airliner crashes near [[East Berlin]]; all 156 on board perish.
* [[August 16]] – As part of a coup attempt, members of the [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]] fire upon, but fail to bring down, [[Hassan II of Morocco]]'s plane while he is traveling back to [[Rabat]].
* [[August 19]] – The first daytime episode of the second incarnation of the American game show ''[[The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)|The Price Is Right]]'' is taped at [[CBS Television City]], to be aired on September 4.<ref>{{Citation|last=MatchGameForever|title=Price Is Right First Episode (9-4-1972)|date=May 26, 2013|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpXJTRFQdo|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/3UpXJTRFQdo|archive-date=2021-12-11|url-status=live|access-date=2018-09-22}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] – The [[1972 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]] in [[Miami Beach, Florida]], renominates U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] and Vice President [[Spiro Agnew]] for a second term.
* [[August 22]]
** [[Rhodesia]] is expelled by the [[International Olympic Committee]] for its racist policies.
** In the Almirante Zar Naval Base, Argentina, 16 detainees are executed by firing squad in the [[Trelew massacre]].
* [[August 26]]–[[September 10]] – The [[1972 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Munich]], West Germany.

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1972}}
* [[September 1]]
** [[Bobby Fischer]] defeats [[Boris Spassky]] in a [[chess]] match in [[Reykjavík]], Iceland, becoming the first American [[World Chess Championship 1972|world chess champion]].
** The [[Cod Wars#Second Cod War (1972–1973)|Second Cod War]] begins between the United Kingdom and [[Iceland]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert L. Mason|title=Imperfect Circle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BhIZe54_qfEC&pg=PA77|date=November 4, 2011|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4670-0193-9|pages=77}}</ref>
* [[September 5]]–[[September 6|6]] – [[Munich massacre]]: Eleven [[Israel]]i athletes at the [[1972 Summer Olympics]] in [[Munich]] are murdered after eight members of the Arab [[terrorism|terrorist]] group [[Black September Organization|Black September]] invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed [[hostage]] rescue.
* [[September 10]] – Brazilian driver [[Emerson Fittipaldi]] wins the Italian Grand Prix at [[Monza]] and becomes the youngest [[Formula One]] World Champion at the age of 25.<ref>{{cite book|author=Norris McWhirter|title=Guinness Book of Sports Records, Winners & Champions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0mZYAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-8069-0234-0|page=24}}</ref>
* [[September 14]] – West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations.<ref>{{cite book|title=The World Book Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShUMAAAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=World Book – Childcraft International|isbn=978-0-7166-0473-0|page=353}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] – [[Philippines|Philippine]] [[President of the Philippines|president]] [[Ferdinand Marcos]] announces on national television the issuance of [[Proclamation No. 1081]] placing the entire country under [[Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos|martial law]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/146939-martial-law-explainer-victims-stories|title=Martial Law, the dark chapter in Philippine history|last=Francisco|first=Katerina|date=September 22, 2016|work=Rappler|access-date=2018-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923155126/https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/146939-martial-law-explainer-victims-stories|archive-date=September 23, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[September 24]] – An [[F-86]] fighter aircraft leaving an air show at [[Sacramento Executive Airport]] fails to become airborne and crashes into a [[Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour]], killing 12 children and 11 adults.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Sabrejet_crash_site.htm|title=Crash at Farrell's|access-date=2008-03-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080320003854/http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Sabrejet_crash_site.htm|archive-date=March 20, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] – [[1972 Norwegian EC referendum]]: Norway rejects membership of the European Economic Community.
* [[September 28]] – The [[Canada men's national ice hockey team]] defeats the [[Soviet national ice hockey team]] in the eighth and final game of the 1972 [[Summit Series]] 6–5 to win the series 4–3–1.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|title=Foster Hewitt, 81, was voice of hockey|date=April 22, 1985|page=C1|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ikYwAAAAIBAJ&pg=2775%2C115416}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[China–Japan relations]]: The Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China is signed in Beijing, which normalizes Japanese diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the [[Republic of China]] (Taiwan).

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1972}}
* [[October]] – In [[Somali Democratic Republic|Somalia]], the government of President [[Siad Barre]] formally introduces the [[Somali alphabet]] as the country's official writing script.<ref>Economist Intelligence Unit (Great Britain), ''Middle East annual review'', (1975), p.229</ref>
* [[October 1]]
** The first publication reporting the production of a recombinant [[DNA]] molecule, by [[Paul Berg]] and colleagues, marks the birth of modern [[molecular biology]] methodology.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Jackson|first1=David A.|last2=Symons|first2=Robert H|last3=Berg|first3=Paul|year=1972|title=Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA Molecules Containing Lambda Phage Genes and the Galactose Operon of Escherichia coli|journal=[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]]|volume=69|issue=10|pages=2904–2909|doi=10.1073/pnas.69.10.2904|pmid=4342968|pmc=389671|bibcode=1972PNAS...69.2904J|doi-access=free}}</ref>
** [[Alex Comfort]]'s bestselling manual ''[[The Joy of Sex]]'' is published.
* [[October 2]] – Denmark joins the [[European Community]]; the [[Faroe Islands]] stay out.
* [[October 5]] – The [[United Reformed Church]] in England is founded out of the [[Congregational church|Congregational]] and [[Presbyterian]] Churches.
* [[October 6]] – A train crash in [[Saltillo]], Mexico, kills 208 people.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.onthisday.com/date/1972/october/6|title=What Happened on October 6, 1972|work=OnThisDay.com|access-date=2018-09-12}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] – A major breakthrough occurs in the [[Paris Peace Accords#Breakthrough and agreement|Paris peace talks]] between [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[Lê Đức Thọ]].
* [[October 13]] – [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]]: A [[Fairchild Aircraft|Fairchild FH-227D]] passenger [[aircraft]] transporting a [[rugby union]] team crashes at about {{convert|14000|ft|m}} in the [[Andes]] mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive [[December 20]] but they have had to resort to [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]] to survive.
* [[October 22]] – The [[Oakland Athletics]] defeat the [[Cincinnati Reds]] four games to three to capture [[Major League Baseball]]'s [[1972 World Series|World Series]]. It is the Athletics' first championship since [[1930 World Series|1930]], when the franchise was in [[Philadelphia]]. 
* [[October 25]] – Belgian [[Eddy Merckx]] sets a new world [[hour record]] in cycling in Mexico City.
* [[October 26]] – A coup in the [[Republic of Dahomey]] (later [[Benin]]) led by [[Mathieu Kérékou]] removes a civilian government (which has been headed by a triumvirate consisting of Ahomadégbé, Apithy and Maga).
* [[October 28]] – The [[Airbus A300]] flies for the first time.

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1972}}
* November – The [[Saitama Seibu Lions#Nishitetsu Lions (1951–1972)|Nishitetsu Lions]] baseball club, part of the [[Nippon Professional Baseball|NPB]]'s [[Pacific League]], is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary of [[Nishi-Nippon Railroad]]. The team is renamed the Taiheiyo Club Lions.
* [[November 7]] – [[1972 United States presidential election]]: [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] incumbent [[Richard Nixon]] defeats [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator [[George McGovern]] in a landslide. The election has the lowest voter turnout since [[1948 United States presidential election|1948]], with only 55 percent of the electorate voting.
* [[November 11]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Vietnamization]] – The [[United States Army]] turns over the massive Long Binh military base to [[South Vietnam]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=George Moss|author2=Paul Alwyn Conway|title=A Vietnam Reader: Sources and Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mUIuAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-946625-0|page=324}}</ref>
* [[November 14]] – The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hsuan Owyang|title=From Wall Street to Bukit Merah: Strategies of a Corporate Leader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LUuKoB_zQmQC|year=1998|publisher=Times Books International|isbn=978-981-204-969-8|page=61}}</ref>
* [[November 16]] – The [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/|author=UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)|publisher=UNESCO World Heritage Centre|access-date=October 17, 2012|date=November 16, 1972}}</ref>
* [[November 19]] – [[Seán Mac Stíofáin]], a leader of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]], is arrested in [[Dublin]] after giving a radio interview to [[RTÉ]] and charged with being a member of the IRA.
* [[November 28]] – The last executions in Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – are guillotined at [[La Santé Prison]] by chief executioner [[André Obrecht]]. Bontems, found not guilty of murder by the court, is condemned as Buffet's accomplice. President [[Georges Pompidou]], in private an abolitionist, upholds both death sentences in deference to French public opinion.<ref>{{cite book|author=Council of Europe|title=The Death Penalty: Beyond Abolition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKsfGi3y3YgC&pg=PA194|date=January 1, 2004|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=978-92-871-5333-3|pages=194}}</ref>
* [[November 29]]
** The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the river [[Amstel]] in [[Amsterdam]], pioneering the legal sale of [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/nov29.html|title=*Ø* Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine &#124; Book of Days &#124; November 29 &#124; International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People Die Grünen Petra Kelly|publisher=Wilsonsalmanac.com|access-date=2012-05-17|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924071355/http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/nov29.html|archive-date=September 24, 2012}}</ref>
** [[Atari, Inc.|Atari]] in the United States release the production version of ''[[Pong]]'', one of the [[first video game]]s to achieve widespread popularity in both the [[Arcade game|arcade]] and [[Video game console|home console]] markets, devised by [[Nolan Bushnell]] and [[Allan Alcorn]].<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Ultimate History of Video Games]]|first=Steven|last=Kent|author-link=Steven L. Kent|chapter=And Then There Was Pong|publisher=Three Rivers Press|isbn=0-7615-3643-4|year=2001}}</ref>

===December===
{{Main|December 1972}}
* [[December 2]] – [[1972 Australian federal election]]: The [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[Gough Whitlam]] defeats the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[McMahon government|government]] led by [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]] [[William McMahon]]. Consequently, Whitlam becomes the first Labor [[Prime Minister of Australia]] since the defeat of [[Ben Chifley]] in [[1949 Australian federal election|1949]]. Whitlam will be sworn in on [[December 5]]; his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the [[Vietnam War]]. McMahon resigns from the Liberal leadership almost immediately; he will be [[1972 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election|replaced]] by outgoing [[Treasurer of Australia|Treasurer]] [[Billy Snedden]].
* [[December 7]]
** [[Apollo 17]] ([[Gene Cernan]], [[Ronald Evans (astronaut)|Ronald Evans]], [[Harrison Schmitt]]), the last crewed [[Moon]] mission for more than 50 years, is launched and ''[[The Blue Marble]]'' photograph of the [[Earth]] is taken. The mission also includes [[Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey|five mice]].
** [[Imelda Marcos]], First Lady of the Philippines, is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot the assailant.
* [[December 8]]
** [[United Airlines Flight 553]] crashes short of a runway in Chicago, killing 43 of 61 passengers and two people on the ground. A day later, over $10,000 cash is found in the purse of [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] conspirator [[Howard Hunt]]'s wife, who was on board.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=New York Magazine|date=July 1, 1974|title=A secret is discovered in a plane crash|page=40}}</ref>
** [[International Human Rights Day]] is proclaimed by the [[United Nations]].
* [[December 11]] – [[Apollo 17]] lands on the [[Moon]].
* [[December 14]] – [[Apollo program]]: [[Eugene Cernan]] is the last person to walk on the Moon, after he and [[Harrison Schmitt]] complete the third and final [[extra-vehicular activity]] (EVA) of [[Apollo 17]]. The next person to set foot on the Moon will not do so before 2026.<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Marcia|url=https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-delays-next-artemis-missions-to-2025-and-2026/|title=NASA Delays Next Artemis Missions to 2025 and 2026|work=SpacePolicyOnline|date=January 9, 2024|access-date=2024-09-22}}</ref>
* [[December 15]]
** The Commonwealth of Australia ordains equal pay for women.
** The [[United Nations Environment Programme]] is established as a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]].
* [[December 16]]
** The [[Constitution of Bangladesh]] comes into effect.
** [[Mozambican War of Independence|Mozambican War of independence]]: The Portuguese army kills 400 Africans in [[Tete, Mozambique|Tete]], [[Portuguese Mozambique|Mozambique]].
* [[December 19]] – [[Apollo program]]: [[Apollo 17]] returns to [[Earth]], concluding the program of lunar exploration.
* [[December 21]] – [[Rhodesian Bush War]]: [[ZANLA]] troopers attack Altera Farm in north-east [[Rhodesia]].
* [[December 22]]
** Australia establishes diplomatic relations with China and East Germany.
** A peace delegation that includes singer-activist [[Joan Baez]] and human rights attorney [[Telford Taylor]] visit [[Hanoi]] to deliver Christmas mail to American [[prisoners of war]] (they will be caught in the [[Operation Linebacker II|Christmas bombing of North Vietnam]]).
* [[December 23]]
** The 6.2 {{m|w|link=y}} [[1972 Nicaragua earthquake|Nicaragua earthquake]] kills 5,000–11,000 people in the capital [[Managua]]. President [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] is later accused of not distributing millions of dollars worth of [[foreign aid]].
** Swedish [[Prime minister of Sweden|Prime minister]] [[Olof Palme]] compares the American bombings of North [[Vietnam]] to [[Nazism|Nazi]] massacres. The U.S. breaks [[Sweden–United States relations|diplomatic contact]] with Sweden.
** Asker accident: [[Braathens SAFE Flight 239]] crashes during approach to Oslo Airport, Fornebu, Norway; forty people on board are killed.
* [[December 28]] – The bones of Nazi Party official [[Martin Bormann]] are discovered in Berlin during construction work.<ref>{{cite book|last=Whiting|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Whiting|title=The Hunt for Martin Bormann: The Truth|year=1996|orig-year=1973|publisher=Pen & Sword|location=London|isbn=0-85052-527-6|pages=217–218}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Eastern Air Lines Flight 401]] crashes into the [[Everglades]] in Florida, killing 101 of 176 on board. It is the first [[hull loss]] of a [[wide-body aircraft]].
* [[December 31]] – For the first and last time, a 2nd [[leap second]] is added (23:59:60) to a year, making 1972 366 days and two seconds long, the longest year ever within the context of [[UTC]].

===Date unknown===
* [[Colombia]]n looters find the lost 1st millennium city of [[Ciudad Perdida]]; it is not reached by official archaeologists until [[1976]].

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===January===
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* [[January 1]] – [[Lilian Thuram]], French football player<ref>{{LFP Ligue 1|lilian-thuram}}</ref>
* [[January 2]] – [[Shiraz Minwalla]], Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=362|title=Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize|website=ssbprize.gov.in|access-date=October 31, 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] 
** [[Ariel McDonald]], American-Slovenian basketball player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/international/players/arriel-mcdonald-1.html|title=Arriel McDonald International Stats|website=Basketball-Reference.com}}</ref>
** [[Sakis Rouvas]], Greek recording, film and television artist, athlete and businessman<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pamebouzoukia.gr/sakis-rouvas|title=Σάκης Ρουβάς|access-date=January 3, 2023|publisher=Pame mpouzoukia|date=January 15, 2012}}</ref> 
* [[January 10]] – [[Thomas Alsgaard]], Norwegian cross-country skier<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=CC&competitorid=856|title=Thomas Alsgaard|website=International Ski Federation|access-date=October 31, 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] – [[Amanda Peet]], American actress
* [[January 12]] – [[Toto Wolff]], Austrian racing driver and team principal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brdc.co.uk/Toto-Wolff|title=Toto Wolff|website=British Racing Drivers Club|access-date=October 31, 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] 
** [[Nicole Eggert]], American actress<ref>{{cite web|title=Today's famous birthdays list for January 13, 2022 includes celebrities Patrick Dempsey, Shonda Rhimes|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/01/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-january-13-2022-includes-celebrities-patrick-dempsey-shonda-rhimes.html|website=cleveland.com|date=January 13, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Vitaly Scherbo]], Belarusian gymnast<ref>{{cite book|author=Dan Gutman|title=Gymnastics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UsnUxfFEQxUC&pg=PT144|date=August 1, 1998|publisher=Penguin Young Readers Group|isbn=978-0-14-130130-3|pages=144}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] 
** [[Salah Hissou]], Moroccan long-distance runner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/salah-hissou|title=Salah HISSOU|website=Olympic.org|publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715094539/https://www.olympic.org/salah-hissou|archive-date=2019-07-15}}</ref>
** [[Greg Page (musician)|Greg Page]], Australian singer, musician and actor ([[The Wiggles]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Nikki Haley]], Indian-American politician, [[Governor of South Carolina]] (2010–2017) and [[U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations]] (2017–2018)<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94|date=September 30, 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|pages=94}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] – [[Billel Dziri]], Algerian footballer and manager<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/8646/Billel_Dziri.html|title=Billel Dziri|website=National Football Teams|access-date=November 2, 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – [[Gabriel Macht]], American actor<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA96|date=September 24, 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=96}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] – [[Marcel Wouda]], Dutch swimmer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/marcel-wouda|title=Marcel Wouda|website=Olympic.org|access-date=October 31, 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 27]]
**[[Bibi Gaytán]], Mexican singer and actress<ref>{{citation|website=Quien.net|title=Biografía de Bibi Gaytán – Quién es|access-date=August 24, 2019|url=https://www.quien.net/bibi-gaytan.php|language=es|trans-title=Bibi Gaytán, Who she is}}</ref>
** [[Mark Owen]], British pop singer ([[Take That]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/take-that/mark-owen-age-wife-children-height-facts/|title=Mark Owen facts: Take That singer's wife, height, children, songs and more revealed|work=AMP Smooth Radio|date=December 28, 2020|access-date=May 30, 2023|archive-date=September 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921065913/https://amp.smoothradio.com/artists/take-that/mark-owen-age-wife-children-height-facts/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Keith Wood]], Irish rugby player<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Keating|title=The Highlights: The Best of Frank Keating|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Z_0CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT115|date=May 13, 2014|publisher=Guardian Faber Publishing|isbn=978-1-78335-020-9|pages=115}}</ref>
*[[January 28]] – [[Amy Coney Barrett]], American attorney, jurist and associate justice, [[U.S. Supreme Court]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Who is Amy Coney Barrett? Meet Trump's Supreme Court pick|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/9/25/21454492/who-is-amy-coney-barrett-meet-trumps-leading-supreme-court-pick|website=Chicago Sun-Times|date=September 25, 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] – [[Mike Johnson]], 56th Speaker of the US House of Representatives<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bioguide Search |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000299 |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref>

===February===
[[File:Leymah Gbowee (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leymah Gbowee]]]]
[[File:Big_Show_in_April_2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Big Show]]]]
[[File:Rob Thomas by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rob Thomas (musician)|Rob Thomas]]]]
[[File:Jagr Czech1.png|thumb|100px|[[Jaromír Jágr]]]]
[[File:RiP2013 GreenDay Billie Joe Armstrong 0021.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billie Joe Armstrong]]]]
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[[File:Pedro Sánchez in 2018d.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pedro Sánchez (politician)|Pedro Sánchez]]]]
* [[February 1]] 
** [[Tego Calderón]], Puerto Rican hip hop musician and actor
** [[Leymah Gbowee]], Liberian peace activist, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite web|last1=Swanson|first1=Abigail|title=Leymah Gbowee (1972– ) •|url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/gbowee-leymah-1972/|website=blackpast.org|access-date=July 26, 2021|date=December 5, 2011}}</ref>
* [[February 2]]
** [[Klára Dobrev]], Hungarian politician
** [[Hendrick Ramaala]], South African long-distance runner<ref>{{cite web|title=Olympedia – Hendrick Ramaala|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/75313|website=olympedia.org|access-date=March 22, 2021}}</ref>
*[[February 3]] – [[Michael Kovrig]], Canadian diplomat and hostage victim<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kovrig-spavor-china-biden-new-momentum-1.5900094|title=New U.S. administration brings fresh momentum to those working to free Canada's '2 Michaels'|website=CBC|date=February 2, 2021|author1=Katie Simpson|author2=Stephanie Hogan|access-date=October 12, 2021}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – [[Queen Mary of Denmark]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Alastair H. Thomas|title=Historical Dictionary of Denmark|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPq6DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA348|date=July 26, 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-6465-6|pages=348}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – [[Big Show]], American professional wrestler
* [[February 9]] – [[Norbert Rózsa]], Hungarian swimmer
* [[February 11]]
** [[Craig Jones (musician)|Craig Jones]], American sampler / keyboardist
** [[Steve McManaman]], British footballer
** [[Kelly Slater]], American professional surfer
* [[February 13]] 
** [[Virgilijus Alekna]], Lithuanian discus thrower
** [[Ana Paula Connelly]], Brazilian beach volleyball player<ref>{{cite web|title=Ana Paula Connelly Henkel|url=http://www.bvbinfo.com/player.asp?ID=1286|website=bvbinfo.com}}</ref>
* [[February 14]] – [[Rob Thomas (musician)|Rob Thomas]], American singer-songwriter ([[Matchbox Twenty]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Jaromír Jágr]], Czech ice hockey player<ref>{{Ice hockey stats|tsn=jaromir-jagr}}</ref>
* [[February 17]]
** [[Billie Joe Armstrong]], American rock musician and lead singer/guitarist ([[Green Day]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Else|first1=Loren|title=Today in History: Yellow ribbons tied on trees and light standards|url=http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/today-in-history-yellow-ribbons-tied-on-trees-and-light/article_53eba0ad-b363-5e4b-bfe9-0257710345e2.html|website=Post Bulletin|date=February 17, 2016|access-date=February 17, 2016}}</ref>
** [[Taylor Hawkins]], American musician (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/breaking-taylor-hawkins-dead-foo-26560968|title=Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dies at age 50 as band share heartbreak|first=Vicki|last=Newman|date=March 26, 2022|website=Irish Mirror}}</ref>
** [[Valeria Mazza]], Argentinian model and businesswoman
* [[February 18]] – [[Olexandra Timoshenko]], Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
* [[February 22]]
** [[Michael Chang]], American tennis player
** [[Claudia Pechstein]], German speed-skater<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/claudia-pechstein|title=Claudia Pechstein|website=IOC|access-date=December 29, 2020}}</ref>
** [[Haim Revivo]], Israeli footballer<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Slater|title=Great Jews in Sports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yw-DAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=J. David Publishers|isbn=978-0-8246-0433-2|page=321}}</ref>
* [[February 24]]
** [[Pooja Bhatt]], Indian actress
** [[Richard Chelimo]], Kenyan athlete (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/aug/29/guardianobituaries.athletics|date=August 29, 2001|author=Pete Nichols|title=Richard Chelimo|website=The Guardian|access-date=October 31, 2020}}</ref>
* [[February 26]] – [[Keith Ferguson (voice actor)|Keith Ferguson]], American voice actor{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}
* [[February 29]] 
**[[Dave Williams (singer)|Dave Williams]], American singer (d. [[2002]])
**[[Pedro Sánchez]], Spanish politician, Prime Minister 2018–<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.revistavanityfair.es/poder/articulos/pedro-sanchez-padre-madre-hermano-quien-es-mujer-begona-gomez-hijas/43121|website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|title=Así es la familia más cercana de Pedro Sánchez|first=Nuria|last=Hernández|date=March 22, 2020}}</ref>

===March===
[[File:Shaquille O'Neal October 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Shaquille O'Neal]]]]
[[File:Common - 2018 (41963868844) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Common (rapper)|Common]]]]
[[File:Timbaland (47903248821) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Timbaland]]]]
[[File:Leslie Mann 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leslie Mann]]]]
* [[March 4]] – [[Pae Gil-su]], North Korean gymnast<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Pae Gil-Su |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/pae-gil-su-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203185319/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/pae-gil-su-1.html |archive-date=December 3, 2016}}</ref>
* [[March 6]]
** [[Shaquille O'Neal]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite book|author1=Pohla Smith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYdN-AOouJUC&pg=PA10|title=Shaquille O'Neal: Superhero at Center|author2=Steve Wilson|date=December 15, 2002|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc|isbn=978-0-8239-3577-2|pages=10}}</ref>
** [[Marianne Thieme]], Dutch politician and activist
* [[March 10]] – [[Timbaland]], American record producer, songwriter and rapper<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timbalandmusic.com/biography|title=Timbaland|publisher=timbalandmusic|access-date=November 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513023750/http://www.timbalandmusic.com/biography|archive-date=May 13, 2013}}</ref>
* [[March 13]]
** [[Leigh-Allyn Baker]], American actress<ref>{{Cite web|title=Leigh-Allyn Baker – Rotten Tomatoes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/leighallyn_baker|access-date=2023-12-27|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes}}</ref>
** [[Common (rapper)|Common]], African-American rapper and actor{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
* [[March 15]] – [[Mark Hoppus]], American musician and bassist ([[blink-182]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Stam|first1=Janneke|title=14 of Mark Hoppus' Greatest Tweets|url=http://www.rocksound.tv/features/read/14-of-mark-hoppus-greatest-tweets|website=[[Rock Sound]]|publisher=Freeway Press|access-date=March 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315211837/http://www.rocksound.tv/features/read/14-of-mark-hoppus-greatest-tweets|archive-date=March 15, 2016|date=March 15, 2016}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – [[Mia Hamm]], American soccer player
* [[March 18]] – [[Dane Cook]], American comedian
* [[March 20]] – [[Segundo Cernadas]], Argentine actor
* [[March 21]]
** [[Balázs Kiss (athlete)|Balázs Kiss]], Hungarian Olympic athlete<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/balazs-kiss-1|title=Balazs Kiss|website=IOC|access-date=December 23, 2020}}</ref>
** [[Derartu Tulu]], Ethiopian long-distance runner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/derartu-tulu|title=Derartu Tulu|website=IOC|access-date=December 23, 2020}}</ref>
* [[March 22]]
** [[Shawn Bradley]], American basketball player
** [[Elvis Stojko]], Canadian figure skater<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/elvis-stojko|title=Elvis Stojko|website=Olympic.org|access-date=December 29, 2020}}</ref>
* [[March 23]]
** [[Joe Calzaghe]], Welsh boxer<ref>{{Citation|first=Joe|last=Calzaghe|title=Joe Calzaghe – No Ordinary Joe|year=2007|publisher=Arrow Books|location=London|isbn=9780099509356|page=24}}</ref>
** [[Judith Godrèche]], French actress
* [[March 25]] – [[Naftali Bennett]], Israeli politician<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=864|title=Naftali Bennett|publisher=Knesset|access-date=June 2, 2021}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – [[Leslie Mann]], American actress
* [[March 27]]
** [[Kieran Modra]], Australian Paralympic swimmer and cyclist (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/team/kieran-modra|title=Kieran Modra|publisher=[[Australian Paralympic Committee]]|access-date=January 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217182115/http://www.paralympic.org.au/team/kieran-modra|archive-date=February 17, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
** [[Charlie Haas]], American professional wrestler<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/txbirths?c=search&first=Charles&last=Haas&spelling=Exact&11_year=1972&11_month=3&11_day=27&4=&14=&SubmitSearch.x=0&SubmitSearch.y=0|title=Charlie Haas Birth Record|access-date=2008-06-25|publisher=Family Tree Legends}}</ref>
** [[Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink]], Dutch footballer
* [[March 28]] – [[Nick Frost]], English actor, comedian and screenwriter
* [[March 29]]
** [[Hera Björk]], Icelandic singer
** [[Rui Costa]], Portuguese footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Rui Costa|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/16572/|website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
** [[Priti Patel]], British Indian politician, [[Secretary of State for the Home Department]]
* [[March 30]] – [[Karel Poborský]], Czech footballer

===April===
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[[File:Jennifer Garner 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jennifer Garner]]]]
[[File:Carmen Electra 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carmen Electra]]]]
[[File:Željko Joksimović (Eurovision Song Contest 2012) 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Željko Joksimović]]]]
[[File:GPARGENTINA - Grupo Parlamentar Brasil-Argentina (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sergio Massa]]]]
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* [[April 2]] – [[Eyal Berkovic]], Israeli footballer<ref>{{cite book|author=Tony Matthews|title=Manchester City Player by Player|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjaIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT36|date=August 15, 2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-1737-4|pages=36}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Jennie Garth]], American actress<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/videos/0,,20477333,00.html|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|title=Best Birthday Wishes for Jennie Garth|date=April 3, 2011|access-date=August 16, 2012|quote=The ''90210'' star is 39 today.|archive-date=May 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505074809/http://www.people.com/people/videos/0,,20477333,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* [[April 4]] – [[Jill Scott (singer)|Jill Scott]], American singer-songwriter and model
* [[April 7]] – [[Tim Peake]], British astronaut<ref>{{Who's Who | title=PEAKE, Timothy Nigel | id = U281695 | volume = 2016 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] – [[Vincent Zhao]], Chinese actor and martial artist
* [[April 12]] – [[Marco Goecke]], German choreographer<ref>{{cite web|author=Ballett Stuttgarter|title=April 12th, 1972: Birth Marco Goecke {{!}} Stuttgart Ballet|url=https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/blog/birth-marco-goecke/|website=stuttgart-ballet.de|access-date=February 18, 2023|language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 13]] – [[Mariusz Czerkawski]], Polish ice hockey player
* [[April 15]] – [[Arturo Gatti]], Canadian boxer (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QeKbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA131|date=March 1, 2010|isbn=978-1-61535-366-8|pages=131|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] – [[Conchita Martínez]], Spanish tennis player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/130113/conchita-martinez|title=Conchita Martinez|website=WTA|access-date=November 25, 2020}}</ref>
* [[April 17]]
** [[Jennifer Garner]], American actress
** [[Muttiah Muralitharan]], Sri Lankan cricketer<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Stern|author2=Marcus Williams|title=The Essential Wisden: An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ne8EAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA132|date=January 7, 2014|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4081-7896-6|pages=132}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] – [[Rivaldo]], Brazilian footballer<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rivaldo|title=Rivaldo|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|access-date=September 3, 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 20]]
** [[Lê Huỳnh Đức]], Vietnamese footballer<ref>{{NFT player|id=7841}}</ref>
** [[Carmen Electra]], American actress and singer
** [[Željko Joksimović]], Serbian singer, composer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer
** [[Stephen Marley]], American musician
* [[April 21]]
** [[Narges Mohammadi]], Iranian human rights activist, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite news|title=Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize|first1=Christian|last1=Edwards|first2=Ed|last2=Upright|first3=Sana Noor|last3=Haq|url=https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/nobel-peace-prize-2023-latest-news-intl/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=October 6, 2023|access-date=2023-10-06}}</ref>
** [[Stefan Brogren]], Canadian actor
* [[April 26]] – [[Avi Nimni]], Israeli footballer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/3337/Avi_Nimni.html|title=Avi Nimni|website=National Football Teams|access-date=October 31, 2020}}</ref>
* [[April 28]]
**[[Sergio Massa]], Argentine lawyer and politician
**[[Violent J]], American rapper  actor and one-half of the [[Insane Clown Posse]]

===May===
[[File:Julie Benz (26496282963).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Julie Benz]]]]
[[File:Dwayne Johnson 2, 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dwayne Johnson]]]]
[[File:Brodeur30.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Martin Brodeur]]]]
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[[File:Maia Sandu (2019).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maia Sandu]]]]
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* [[May 1]] – [[Julie Benz]], American actress
* [[May 2]] – [[Dwayne Johnson]], American professional wrestler and actor
* [[May 3]] – [[Steve Barclay]], British politician
* [[May 4]] – [[Mike Dirnt]], American rock musician and bassist ([[Green Day]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Spitz|first1=Marc|title=Nobody Likes You: inside the turbulent life, times, and music of Green Day|url=https://archive.org/details/nobodylikesyouin00spit|url-access=registration|date=2006|publisher=Hyperion|isbn=1401302742|page=[https://archive.org/details/nobodylikesyouin00spit/page/12 12]|chapter=Twin Jesuses of Suburbia}}</ref>
* [[May 5]]
**[[Devin Townsend]], Canadian musician
**[[James Cracknell]], British Olympic rower<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/james-cracknell|title=James Cracknell|website=IOC|access-date=January 2, 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 6]]
** [[Martin Brodeur]], Canadian ice hockey goaltender<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/martin-brodeur|title=Martin Brodeur|website=IOC|access-date=January 2, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Naoko Takahashi]], Japanese long-distance runner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/naoko-takahashi|title=Naoko Takahashi|website=IOC|access-date=January 2, 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] – [[Asghar Farhadi]], Iranian film director<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXadAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|date=March 1, 2013|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-62513-103-4|pages=81}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] – [[Darren Hayes]], Australian musician<ref>{{cite book|author=Andy Gregory|title=The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZIjT8PgJMEC&pg=PA224|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-161-2|pages=224}}</ref>
* [[May 9]] – [[Daniela Silivaș]], Romanian gymnast<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/daniela-silivas|title=Daniela Silivas|website=IOC|access-date=January 2, 2021}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – [[Katja Seizinger]], German alpine skier<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/katja-seizinger|title=Katja Seizinger|website=Olympic.org|access-date=December 29, 2020}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Élisa Martin]], French politician<ref>{{Cite web|last=nationale|first=Assemblée|title=Mme Élisa Martin – Mandat clos – Isère (3e circonscription)|url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/deputes/PA342384|access-date=2024-06-28|website=Assemblée nationale|language=fr}}</ref>
* [[May 19]]
** [[Jenny Berggren]], Swedish rock singer ([[Ace of Base]])
** [[Özcan Deniz]], Turkish actor, singer and composer<ref>{{cite web|title=Ozcan Deniz|url=https://www.turkishdrama.com/ozcan-deniz.html|website=turkishdrama.com|date=August 27, 2013|publisher=Turkish drama}}</ref>
** [[Claudia Karvan]], Australian actress<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6131866/todays-birthday-195/|title=Today's Birthday 19/5|last=Polson|first=Laura|work=[[The Newcastle Herald]]|date=May 19, 2019|access-date=September 12, 2020|agency=[[Australian Associated Press]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] – [[Busta Rhymes]], African-American rapper and actor
* [[May 21]] – [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], African-American rapper (d. [[1997]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Max Brooks]], American horror author and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qAuDwAAQBAJ&dq=max+brooks+born+may+1972&pg=PA102|title=Anne Bancroft: The Life and Work|first=Peter|last=Shelley|year=2017|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|page=102|isbn=978-1476662428}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] 
** [[Rubens Barrichello]], Brazilian racing driver<ref>{{cite book|author=Aleks Kruz|title=F1 Pocket Companion 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_aOtcpdYXmkC&pg=PA17|date=March 18, 2010|publisher=Chequered Flag Media|isbn=978-0-9565222-0-7|pages=17}}</ref>
** [[Kevin Ullyett]], Zimbabwean tennis player<ref>{{cite web|title=Kevin Ullyett|url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/U024/overview|website=atptour.com}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Maia Sandu]], Prime Minister of Moldova<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maia Sandu |url=https://www.pi-sf22.com/participant/maia-sandu/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=22nd Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[May 25]]
** [[Karan Johar]], Indian film director, producer and screenwriter<ref>{{cite news|last1=Basu|first1=Nilanjana|title=Koffee With Karan 6: Ayushmann Khurrana, Vicky Kaushal Discover Karan Johar Was Originally Named As...|url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/koffee-with-karan-6-ayushmann-khurrana-vicky-kaushal-discover-karan-johar-was-originally-named-as-1963483|access-date=December 16, 2018|publisher=[[NDTV]]|date=December 16, 2018|archive-date=December 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216214144/https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/koffee-with-karan-6-ayushmann-khurrana-vicky-kaushal-discover-karan-johar-was-originally-named-as-1963483|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Cung Le]], Vietnamese-born American actor and mixed martial artist
* [[May 26]] – [[Ahmad Dhani|Dhani Muhammad Prasetyo]], Indonesian singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record executive, entrepreneur, and politician 
* [[May 28]] – [[Michael Boogerd]], Dutch cyclist
* [[May 29]] – [[Laverne Cox]], American actress and LGBTQ+ advocate
* [[May 30]] – [[Manny Ramírez]], Dominican baseball player
* [[May 31]] – [[Frode Estil]], Norwegian cross-country skier

===June===
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[[File:Karl Urban by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Karl Urban]]]]
[[File:Christophe Lambert et Jean Dujardin (Cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jean Dujardin]]]]
[[File:Zinedine Zidane by Tasnim 03.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Zinedine Zidane]]]]
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* [[June 2]] – [[Wentworth Miller]], British-born American actor and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2021: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPcCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA306|date=October 27, 2020|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-424-9|pages=306}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] – [[Stoja]], Serbian singer
* [[June 5]] – [[Yogi Adityanath]], Indian priest and politician<ref>[http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=7 Shri Yogi Adityanath: Members bioprofile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324132606/http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=7 |date=March 24, 2017 }}, Sixteenth Lok Sabha, retrieved March 19, 2017.</ref>
* [[June 6]]
** [[Noriaki Kasai]], Japanese ski jumper<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/noriaki-kasai|title=Noriaki Kasai|website=IOC|access-date=February 13, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Natalie Morales (journalist)|Natalie Morales]], American journalist<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 6, 2014|title=TODAY anchors show their driver's license photos – Video on TODAY.com|url=http://www.today.com/video/today/49118142|access-date=2024-03-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906043600/http://www.today.com/video/today/49118142|archive-date=September 6, 2014}}</ref>
** [[Cristina Scabbia]], Italian singer
* [[June 7]] – [[Karl Urban]], New Zealand actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/06/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-june-7-2020-includes-celebrities-liam-neeson-karl-urban.html|title=Today's famous birthdays list for June 7, 2020 includes celebrities Liam Neeson, Karl Urban|first=Mike|last=Rose|date=June 7, 2020|website=cleveland}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] – [[Poppy Montgomery]], Australian-American actress 
* [[June 16]] – [[John Cho]], Korean-American actor and musician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/john-cho/bio/157818/|title=John Cho Biography|publisher=[[TV Guide|TVGuide.com]]|access-date=July 7, 2016|archive-date=September 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920130151/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/john-cho/bio/157818/}}</ref><!--Cited source TV Guide gives birth name Cho Yo Han--><!--TV Guide link is live but birth date is only in archived version-->
* [[June 17]] – [[Iztok Čop]], Slovenian rower<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/2147/cop-iztok|title=Iztok Cop|website=World Rowing|access-date=October 31, 2020|archive-date=August 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822161819/http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/2147/cop-iztok|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[June 18]] – [[Michal Yannai]], Israeli actress
* [[June 19]] – [[Jean Dujardin]], French actor, comedian and film director<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA328|date=September 24, 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=328}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] – [[Irene van Dyk]], South African born New Zealand netball player
* [[June 23]] – [[Zinedine Zidane]], French footballer and manager<ref>{{cite book|first1=Patrick|last1=Fort|first2=Jean|last2=Philippe|title=Zidane: The Biography|year=2018|publisher=Ebury Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-78503-848-8|page=1}}</ref>
* [[June 24]]
** [[Robbie McEwen]], Australian professional bicycle road racer
** [[Kim Yeo-jin]], South Korean actress and activist
* [[June 28]]
** [[Geeta Tripathee]], Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic 
** [[Maria Butyrskaya]], Russian figure skater
* [[June 29]]
** [[DJ Shadow]], American DJ and record producer<ref>{{Cite Grove|title=DJ Shadow|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2218982|url-access=subscription|last1=Levine|first1=Mike}}</ref>
** [[Samantha Smith]], American peace activist (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Patricia Stone Martin|title=Samantha Smith, Young Ambassador|publisher=Rourke Enterprises|year=1987|isbn=9780865921733|page=5}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] 
** [[Molly Parker]], Canadian actress<ref>{{cite tweet|title=Thanks for the birthday wishes!!!|url=https://twitter.com/TheMollyParker/status/483672261019197440|user=TheMollyParker|number=483672261019197440|date=June 30, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141030013400/https://twitter.com/TheMollyParker/status/483672261019197440|archive-date=October 30, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

===July===
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[[File:Maya Rudolph.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maya Rudolph]]]]
[[File:Wil Wheaton Photo Op GalaxyCon Raleigh 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wil Wheaton]]]]
* [[July 1]] – [[Steffi Nerius]], German javelin thrower<ref>{{cite web|title=Steffi Nerius|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70067|website=olympedia.org}}</ref>
* [[July 2]] – [[Darren Shan]], Irish author
* [[July 4]]
** [[Nina Badrić]], Croatian pop singer
** [[Alexei Shirov]], Spanish chess Grandmaster<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chess.com/players/alexei-shirov|title=Alexei Shirov|website=chess.com|access-date=February 13, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Craig Spearman]], New Zealand cricketer
* [[July 5]] 
** [[Robert Esmie]], Canadian Olympic athlete<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/robert-esmie|title=Robert Esmie|website=IOC|access-date=February 13, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Gary Shteyngart]], Soviet-born American writer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Gary-Shteyngart/10644|title=Gary Shteyngart|website=babelio.com|access-date=September 26, 2024}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] 
** [[Isabelle Boulay]], French Canadian singer
** [[Zhanna Pintusevich-Block]], Ukrainian sprinter<ref>{{cite web|title=ZHANNA PINTUSEVICH-BLOCK|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/ZhannaPintusevich.html|website=jewishsports.net}}</ref>
* [[July 7]]
** [[Lisa Leslie]], American basketball player
** [[Kirsten Vangsness]], American actress and writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/blog2.php?id=10|title=Kirstens Blog|access-date=2007-10-07|first=Kirsten|last=Vangsness|date=July 24, 2007|publisher=[[CBS]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012101952/http://cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/blog2.php?id=10|archive-date=2007-10-12}}</ref> 
* [[July 8]] – [[Sourav Ganguly]], Indian cricketer<ref>{{cite book|title=The Herald|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5x-UKQ4sNCIC|year=1999|publisher=Pakistan Herald Publications|page=76}}</ref>
* [[July 10]]
** [[Sofía Vergara]], Colombian-American actress, television producer, comedian, presenter and model<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elheraldo.co/tendencias/entre-pitufos-mexicanos-sof-a-vergara-celebr-sus-39-a-os-29008|title=Entre pitufos mexicanos, Sofía Vergara celebró sus 39 años / Among Mexican Smurfs, Sofia Vergara celebrated her 39 years|date=July 11, 2011|work=[[El Heraldo (Colombia)|El Heraldo]]|language=es|access-date=March 29, 2015|quote=Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara nació el 10 de julio de 1972 en Barranquilla. / Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara was born on July 10, 1972 in Barranquilla.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215025/http://www.elheraldo.co/tendencias/entre-pitufos-mexicanos-sof-a-vergara-celebr-sus-39-a-os-29008|archive-date=October 4, 2013}}</ref>
** [[Julián Legaspi]], Uruguayan-Peruvian actor
* [[July 11]] – [[Michael Rosenbaum]], American actor,<ref>{{cite web|title=Rising Star Michael Rosenbaum on Midday with Mike Tuesday|date=May 6, 2003|url=https://www.14news.com/story/1265946/rising-star-michael-rosenbaum-on-midday-with-mike-tuesday/|access-date=January 27, 2024}}</ref> producer, singer and comedian{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
* [[July 17]] – [[Jaap Stam]], Dutch football player and coach<ref>{{cite web|title=Jaap Stam|url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=12657|website=soccerbase.com}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] – [[Jozef Stümpel]], Slovak professional ice hockey player
* [[July 21]] – [[Catherine Ndereba]], Kenyan long-distance runner
* [[July 22]]
** [[Andrew Holness]], 9th [[Prime Minister of Jamaica]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Palgrave Macmillan|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2017: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBs9DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA680|date=February 28, 2017|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-349-68398-7|pages=680}}</ref>
** [[Keyshawn Johnson]], American football player
** [[Nataša Ninković]], Serbian actress<ref>{{cite web|title=Nataša Ninković|url=http://www.trebinje.info/trebinje/trebinjci-u-svijetu/natasa-ninkovic.html|website=trebinje.info|access-date=January 24, 2023|archive-date=April 20, 2007|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070420070849/http://www.trebinje.info/trebinje/trebinjci-u-svijetu/natasa-ninkovic.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – [[Marlon Wayans]], American actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter
* [[July 25]] – [[Carole Samaha]], Lebanese singer and actress
* [[July 27]]
** [[Clint Robinson (canoeist)|Clint Robinson]], Australian kayaker
** [[Maya Rudolph]], American actress, comedienne and singer
** [[Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor]], Malaysian orthopaedic surgeon and the first commercial astronaut
* [[July 28]]
** [[Elizabeth Berkley]], American actress
** [[Evan Farmer]], American television host, actor and musician
* [[July 29]] – [[Wil Wheaton]], American actor, blogger and writer

===August===
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[[File:SpiceGirlWembley150619-69 (49000357276) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Geri Halliwell]]]]
[[File:Ben Affleck by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ben Affleck]]]]
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* [[August 1]] – [[Devon Hughes]], American professional wrestler
* [[August 4]] – [[Audrey Azoulay]], French politician and civil servant
* [[August 6]] – [[Geri Halliwell]], British pop singer ([[Spice Girls]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Chip Roy]], American politician<ref>{{cite web|title=ROY, Charles (Chip)|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000614|website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref>
* [[August 9]]
** [[A-mei]], Taiwanese singer
** [[Bang Si-hyuk|Bang Si-Hyuk]], South Korean Producer
* [[August 10]] – [[Angie Harmon]], American actress
* [[August 12]] – [[Demir Demirkan]], Turkish rock musician and songwriter
* [[August 13]] – [[Michael Sinterniklaas]], French-American voice actor
* [[August 14]] – [[Yoo Jae-suk]], South Korean comedian and television comedy show host
* [[August 15]] – [[Ben Affleck]], American actor and film director
* [[August 19]] 
** [[Roberto Abbondanzieri]], Argentine footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=R. Abbondanzieri|url=https://int.soccerway.com/coaches/roberto-carlos-abbondanzieri/61082/|website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
** [[Sammi Cheng]], Hong Kong singer and actress
* [[August 27]]
** [[Denise Lewis]], English track and field athlete
** [[The Great Khali]], Indian promoter, actor, powerlifter and professional wrestler
* [[August 29]] – [[Bae Yong-joon]], South Korean actor
* [[August 30]]
** [[Cameron Diaz]], American actress
** [[Pavel Nedvěd]], Czech footballer

===September===
[[File:Idris Elba-4580 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Idris Elba]]]]
[[File:VisitaoficialMexicoEspaña (cropped) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Queen Letizia of Spain]]]]
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[[File:GwynethPaltrowByAndreaRaffin2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gwyneth Paltrow]]]]
[[File:Ari Behn.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ari Behn]]]]
* [[September 2]] – [[Sergejs Žoltoks]], Latvian hockey player (d. [[2004]])
* [[September 4]] 
** [[Daniel Nestor]], Serbian born-Canadian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/daniel-nestor/n210/overview|title=Daniel Nestor &#124; Overview &#124; ATP Tour &#124; Tennis|website=ATP Tour}}</ref>
** [[Françoise Yip]], Chinese-Canadian actress
* [[September 6]] – [[Idris Elba]], English actor<ref>{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA445|date=September 24, 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=445}}</ref>
* [[September 9]] – [[Goran Višnjić]], Croatian-American actor
* [[September 10]] – [[Ghada Shouaa]], Syrian athlete<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/ghada-shouaa|title=Ghada Shouaa|website=IOC|access-date=December 29, 2020}}</ref>
* [[September 12]] – [[Vebjørn Rodal]], Norwegian middle-distance athlete<ref>{{cite web|title=Vebjørn RODAL|url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/norway/vebjorn-rodal-14215450|website=worldathletics.org}}</ref>
* [[September 15]] – [[Queen Letizia of Spain]]<ref>{{cite book|author1=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|author2=World Health Organization|title=Proceedings of the FAO/WHO International Symposium on sustainable food systems for healthy diets and improved nutrition: 1–2 December, 2016, Rome, Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGy1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131|date=April 26, 2018|publisher=Food & Agriculture Org.|isbn=978-92-5-130474-7|pages=131}}</ref>
* [[September 16]]
** [[Sprent Dabwido]], Nauruan politician (d. [[2019]])
** [[Vebjørn Rodal]], Norwegian Olympic athlete
* [[September 17]] – [[Bobby Lee]], Asian-American comedian
* [[September 19]] – [[Ashot Nadanian]], Armenian chess player, theoretician and coach
* [[September 20]] – [[Victor Ponta]], 3-Time Prime Minister of Romania<ref>{{cite book|author=B. Turner|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2013: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9pLlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1020|date=January 12, 2017|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-59541-9|pages=1020}}</ref>
* [[September 21]]
** [[Liam Gallagher]], British singer ([[Oasis (band)|Oasis]])
** [[Erin Fitzgerald]], Canadian-American voice actress
* [[September 23]]
** [[Pierre Amine Gemayel]], Lebanese politician (d. [[2006]])
**[[Galit Gutmann|Galit Gutman]], Israeli female model
* [[September 26]] 
** [[Beto O'Rourke]], American politician, representative of Texas 16th congressional district
** [[Shawn Stockman]], American singer and musician ([[Boyz II Men]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], American actress
* [[September 28]] – [[Dita Von Teese]], American [[burlesque]] artist, model and businesswoman
* [[September 30]]
** [[Ari Behn]], Norwegian author (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/12/27/ari-behn-acclaimed-writer-compared-scott-fitzgerald-controversially/|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/12/27/ari-behn-acclaimed-writer-compared-scott-fitzgerald-controversially/|archive-date=January 12, 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Ari Behn – obituary|last=Telegraph Obituaries|date=December 27, 2019|work=The Telegraph|access-date=December 29, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[José Lima]], Dominican baseball player (d. [[2010]])
** [[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]], Indian singer

===October===
[[File:Claudia Black (8735904400) cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Claudia Black]]]]
[[File:Eminem - Concert for Valor in Washington, D.C. Nov. 11, 2014 (2) (Cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eminem]]]]
[[File:GabrielleUnionFeb09 cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gabrielle Union]]]]
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* [[October 2]] – [[Konstantinos Papadakis (pianist)|Konstantinos Papadakis]], Greek pianist
* [[October 3]] – [[Kim Joo-hyuk]], South Korean actor (d. [[2017]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Grant Hill]], African-American basketball player 
* [[October 6]] – [[Mark Schwarzer]], Australian soccer player<ref>{{cite web|title=M. Schwarzer|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/702/|website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] – [[Claudia Black]], Australian actress
* [[October 15]] – [[Sandra Kim]], Belgian singer, [[Eurovision Song Contest]] 1986 winner
* [[October 17]]
** [[Eminem]], American rapper and actor<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Buckley|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PA340|year=2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-105-0|pages=340}}</ref> 
** [[Sharon Leal]], American actress and director<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20137328,00.html|title=Extra Credit&nbsp;— Kids & Family Life, Boston Public : People.com|work=People|year=2014|access-date=October 2, 2014|archive-date=September 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914181827/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20137328,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Tarkan (singer)|Tarkan]], Turkish singer<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/ekler/gazete_pazar/981108/haber/hab2.html|title=Tarkan Fransa ve Belçika'da pop listelerinde hızla yükseliyor|first=Melek|last=Derman|access-date=June 7, 2013|date=November 8, 1998|newspaper=[[Milliyet]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305091132/http://www.milliyet.com.tr/ekler/gazete_pazar/981108/haber/hab2.html|archive-date=March 5, 2016}}</ref>
* [[October 21]]
** [[Evgeny Afineevsky]], Russian-born American film director and producer
** [[Evhen Tsybulenko]], Ukrainian professor of international law
* [[October 22]] – [[Saffron Burrows]], British actress
* [[October 24]] – [[Kim Ji-soo (actress, born 1972)|Kim Ji-soo]], South Korean actress
* [[October 25]] – [[Esther Duflo]], French American economist, recipient of the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]]
* [[October 26]] – [[Dianno A. Jakelj]], Slovenian abstract painter<ref>{{cite web|title=Dianno Jakelj Artworks|url=https://www.saatchiart.com/diannojakelj|website=saatchiart.com|publisher=Saatchi Art|access-date=July 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 27]]
** [[Elissa (Lebanese singer)|Elissa]], Lebanese singer
** [[Maria de Lurdes Mutola]], Mozambican athlete<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/maria-mutola|title=Maria Mutola|website=IOC|access-date=November 25, 2020}}</ref>
* [[October 28]] – [[Brad Paisley]], American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist.
* [[October 29]] – [[Gabrielle Union]], American actress<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA533|date=September 24, 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|pages=533}}</ref>

===November===
[[File:Toni Collette 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Toni Collette]]]]
[[File:Thandie Newton by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Thandiwe Newton]]]]
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[[File:Eric Dane March 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eric Dane]]]]
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[[File:Josh Duhamel SXSW 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Josh Duhamel]]]]<!--[[File:Jonny Lee Miller Comic-Con 2012 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jonny Lee Miller]]]]-->
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* [[November 1]]
** [[Mario Barth]], German comedian
** [[Toni Collette]], Australian actress, singer and musician
** [[Jenny McCarthy]], American actress and model
* [[November 2]] – [[Vladimir Vorobiev]], Russian ice hockey player
* [[November 4]] – [[Luís Figo]], Portuguese footballer
* [[November 6]]
** [[Adonis Georgiades]], Greek historian and politician, [[Ministry of Health and Social Security (Greece)|Minister of Health]]
** [[Thandiwe Newton]], British actress
** [[Rebecca Romijn]], American actress and model
* [[November 8]]
** [[Gretchen Mol]], American actress<ref>{{cite book|last=Wallace|first=John|title=Boardwalk Empire A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ryGtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT143|date=January 26, 2012|publisher=John Blake Publishing, Limited|location=London|isbn=978-1-85782-695-1}}</ref>
** [[Maja Marijana]], Serbian pop-folk singer
* [[November 9]] 
**[[Eric Dane]], American actor
**[[Corin Tucker]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfGcAAAAQBAJ&dq=corin+tucker+1972&pg=PT78|title=Alternative, Country, Hip-Hop, Rap, and More: Music from the 1980s to Today|date=December 1, 2012|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Publishing|isbn=9781615309108}}</ref>
* [[November 10]]
**[[Trevor Devall]], Canadian voice actor and podcaster
**[[DJ Ashba]], American musician
* [[November 11]] – [[Adam Beach]], Canadian actor
* [[November 13]] – [[Takuya Kimura]], Japanese actor
* [[November 14]] – [[Josh Duhamel]], American actor and model
* [[November 15]] – [[Jonny Lee Miller]], English-American actor
* [[November 16]]
** [[Aurelia Dobre]], Romanian artistic gymnast
** [[Missi Pyle]], American actress and singer
* [[November 18]] – [[Zubeen Garg]], Indian singer and actor (d. [[2025]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Alfie Haaland]], Norwegian footballer
* [[November 26]] – [[Arjun Rampal]], Indian actor
* [[November 29]] 
** [[Brian Baumgartner]], American actor and director
** [[Andreas Goldberger]], Austrian ski jumper
** [[Rodrigo Pessoa]], Brazilian equestrian 
* [[November 30]] – [[Christopher Fitzgerald (actor)|Christopher Fitzgerald]], American actor

===December===
<!--[[File:Daniel Alfredsson 2013-05-24.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Daniel Alfredsson]]]]-->
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[[File:JohnAbraham.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Abraham]]]]
[[File:Lawrence Wong 20230526.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lawrence Wong]]]]
[[File:9.12.15AlyssaMilanoByLuigiNovi17.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alyssa Milano]]]]
[[File:Jude Law - Headshot.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jude Law]]]]
* [[December 4]] – [[Yūko Miyamura]], Japanese voice actress, actress and singer
* [[December 7]] – [[Hermann Maier]], Austrian skier
* [[December 9]] 
** [[Tré Cool]], American rock musician and drummer ([[Green Day]])
** [[Fabrice Santoro]], French tennis player
* [[December 11]] – [[Daniel Alfredsson]], Swedish-Canadian ice hockey player
* [[December 12]] 
** [[Wilson Kipketer]], Kenyan-Danish athlete
** [[Arihito Muramatsu]], Japanese baseball player<ref>{{cite web|title=村松 有人|url=https://npb.jp/bis/players/11613883.html|website=npb.jp}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] – [[Mauricio Solís]], Costa Rican footballer
* [[December 14]] – [[Miranda Hart]], British comedian and actress
* [[December 15]]
** [[Lee Jung-jae]], South Korean actor
** [[Stuart Townsend]], Irish actor{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
* [[December 16]] – [[Zeljko Kalac]], Australian footballer
* [[December 17]] 
** [[John Abraham]], Indian actor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.india.com/buzz/happy-birthday-john-abraham-7-things-to-know-about-the-bollywood-hunk-791740/|title=Happy Birthday, John Abraham: 7 things to know about the Bollywood hunk!|date=December 17, 2016|access-date=April 1, 2017|website=india.com|first=Aishwarya|last=Krishnan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401232930/http://www.india.com/buzz/happy-birthday-john-abraham-7-things-to-know-about-the-bollywood-hunk-791740/|archive-date=April 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> 
** [[Iván Pedroso]], Cuban long jumper<ref>{{cite web|title=Iván PEDROSO|url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/cuba/ivan-pedroso-14169391|website=worldathletics.org}}</ref>
* [[December 18]] 
** [[Eimear Quinn]], Irish Celtic singer, [[Eurovision Song Contest]] 1996 winner
** [[Lawrence Wong]], Singapore economist and fourth [[Prime Minister of Singapore]]
* [[December 19]] – [[Alyssa Milano]], American actress
* [[December 22]] – [[Vanessa Paradis]], French singer and actress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/12/22/happy-birthday-vanessa-paradis-youre-38-today-december-22/|title=Happy Birthday, Vanessa Paradis! You're 38 Today, December 22!|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=December 22, 2010|access-date=June 25, 2012|author=Leigh|archive-date=April 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418160016/http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/12/22/happy-birthday-vanessa-paradis-youre-38-today-december-22/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* [[December 24]] – [[Álvaro Mesén]], Costa Rican footballer
* [[December 25]] – [[Qu Yunxia]], Chinese middle-distance runner
* [[December 27]] – [[Colin Charvis]], Welsh rugby player<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wru.co.uk/41_426.php|title=Wales at the Rugby World Cup 1999|publisher=Wales Rugby Union|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212080550/http://www.wru.co.uk/41_426.php|access-date=November 7, 2021|archive-date=February 12, 2009}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] 
** [[Pat Rafter]], Australian tennis player<ref>{{Tennis Australia|pat-rafter}}</ref>
** [[Kevin Stitt]], American politician and businessman and 28th [[Governor of Oklahoma]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Kevin Stitt|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Kevin_Stitt|website=ballotpedia.org}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] 
** [[Jude Law]], British actor
** [[Leonor Varela]], Chilean actress<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Javier Garcia Berumen|title=Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films Since the 1960s|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated|year=2014|isbn=9780786474325|page=273}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] – [[Grégory Coupet]], French footballer

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:Maurice Chevalier-publicity.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maurice Chevalier]]]]
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[[File:Mahalia Jackson 1962, van Vechten, LC-USZ62-91314.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mahalia Jackson]]]]
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* [[January 1]]
** [[Maurice Chevalier]], French singer and actor (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/02/archives/maurice-chevalier-dead-singer-and-actor-was-83.html|title=Maurice Chevalier Dead; Singer and Actor Was 83|date=February 14, 1972|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
** [[Maximus V of Constantinople]], Turkish Orthodox Christian bishop (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Frans Masereel]], Belgian painter and graphic artist (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Amy T. Schlegel|author2=Corinne Granof|author3=Bessie Tina Yarborough|author4=Stephanie D'Alessandro|title=Art in Germany, 1909–1936: From Expressionism to Resistance : the Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection|publisher=Milwaukee Art Museum|year=1990|page=260}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] – [[Chen Yi (general)|Chen Yi]], Chinese military commander and politician (b. [[1901]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chen-Yi Chen Yi Chinese military leader]</ref>
* [[January 7]] – [[Emma P. Carr]], American spectroscopist (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Data Bank of Scientists: Emma Perry Carr|url=http://www.csupomona.edu/~nova/scientists/articles/carr.html|work=Project NOVA (NASA Opportunities for Visionary Academics)|publisher=California State Polytechnic University, Pomona|access-date=June 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205040333/http://www.csupomona.edu/~nova/scientists/articles/carr.html|archive-date=December 5, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] – [[Wesley Ruggles]], American film director (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/wesley-ruggles/|title=Wesley Ruggles|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 8, 2016|date=January 10, 1972}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] 
** [[Nubar Gulbenkian]], Ottoman-born Armenian-British oil trader, socialite and intelligence operative (b. [[1896]])
** [[Aksel Larsen]], Danish politician (b. [[1897]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://danmarkshistorien.dk/vis/materiale/aksel-larsen-1897-1972|title=Aksel Larsen, 1897-1972|website=danmarkshistorien.dk}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] – King [[Frederik IX of Denmark]] (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Frederik of Denmark Dies. Margrethe to Be Queen|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/15/archives/frederik-of-denmark-dies-margrethe-to-be-queen-frederik-of-denmark.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 15, 1972}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] – [[Ross Bagdasarian]], American record producer (b. [[1919]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Rochelle Hudson]], American actress, heart attack (b. [[1916]])<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]]|location=[[Tucson, Arizona]]|page=5|date=January 19, 1972|title=Former Screen Star Rochelle Hudson Dies|agency=Associated Press|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/164867898/|access-date=December 9, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – [[Mohammad Al-Abbasi]], 45th [[Prime Minister of Jordan]] (b. [[1914]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Erhard Milch]], German field marshal and ''Luftwaffe'' officer (b. [[1892]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Mahalia Jackson]], American gospel singer (b. [[1911]])<ref>Whitman, Alden, "Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer And a Civil Rights Symbol, Dies", ''[[The New York Times]]'', (January 28, 1972) p. 1.</ref>
* [[January 30]]
** [[Beatrice Forbes, Countess of Granard]], American-born heiress (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.longfordatwar.ie/soldiers/858|title=President, Founder, Administrator Beatrice Forbes (O.B.E.)|website=longfordatwar.ie}}</ref>
** Prince [[Sisowath Watchayavong]], 5th [[Prime Minister of Cambodia]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[January 31]] – King [[Mahendra of Nepal]] (b. [[1920]])

===February===
[[File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]]]]
* [[February 2]] – [[Jessie Royce Landis]], American actress (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nissen|first1=Axel|title=Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties|date=2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786427468|pages=95–99}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – [[Marianne Moore]], American poet (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Elizabeth|title=Twenty-first century Marianne Moore. Essays from a critical Renaissance|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Cham|year=2017|isbn=9783319651095|page=257}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] – [[Walter Lang]], American film director (b. [[1896]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Colin Munro MacLeod]], Canadian-American geneticist (b. [[1909]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Gavriil Popov (composer)|Gavriil Popov]], Soviet Russian composer (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 19]]
** [[John Grierson]], Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. [[1898]])
** [[Lee Morgan]], American jazz trumpeter and composer (b. [[1938]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Maria Goeppert Mayer]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1906]])<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1963/mayer/biographical/|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=April 9, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Walter Winchell]], American journalist (b. [[1897]])<ref>
{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,,910224,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204143240/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,,910224,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2013|title=Mrs. Winchell's Little Boy|date=March 26, 1972|work=Time Magazine|access-date=October 17, 2011}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Gottfried Fuchs]], German footballer (b. [[1889]])

===March===
* [[March 8]] – [[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski]], German Nazi politician and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] functionary (b. [[1899]])
* [[March 11]] 
** [[Fredric Brown]], American science fiction and mystery writer (b. [[1906]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Seabrook|first=Jack|title=Martians and misplaced clues : the life and work of Fredric Brown|publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press|location=Bowling Green, OH|year=1993|isbn=9780879725914|page=10}}</ref>
** [[Zack Wheat]], American baseball player (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/wheat-zack|title=Wheat, Zack &#124; Baseball Hall of Fame|website=baseballhall.org}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] – [[Marilyn Maxwell]], American actress (b. [[1921]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Cristóbal Balenciaga]], Spanish couturier (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite web|last=Charleston|first=Beth Duncuff|title=Cristobal Balenciaga (1895–1972)|work=Timeline of Art History|publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]|date=October 2004|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bale/hd_bale.htm|access-date=December 23, 2020}}</ref>
* [[March 27]]
** [[M. C. Escher]], Dutch artist (b. [[1898]])
** [[Lorenzo Wright]], American athlete (b. [[1926]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wr/lorenzo-wright-1.html|title=Lorenzo Wright Bio, Stats, and Results &#124; Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|date=April 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418105919/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wr/lorenzo-wright-1.html|archive-date=April 18, 2020}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] – [[Joseph Paul-Boncour]], 71st [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Meena Kumari]], Indian actress, singer and poet (b. [[1933]])

===April===
[[File:George Sanders Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Sanders]]]]
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[[File:Kwame Nkrumah (JFKWHP-AR6409-A).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kwame Nkrumah]]]]
* [[April 2]] – [[Franz Halder]], German general (b. [[1884]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Ferde Grofé]], American pianist and composer (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Stefan Wolpe]], German-born American composer (b. [[1902]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Gil Hodges]], American baseball player (b. [[1924]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Isabel Jewell]], American actress (b. [[1907]])
* [[April 6]]
** [[Brian Donlevy]], American actor (b. [[1901]])
** [[Heinrich Lübke]], 2nd [[President of the Federal Republic of Germany]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 7]]
** [[Abeid Karume]], 1st [[President of Zanzibar]] (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/09/archives/4-gunmen-murder-zanzibar-chief-and-wound-2-aides.html|title=4 Gunmen Murder Zanzibar Chief and Wound 2 Aides|date=April 9, 1972|website=The New York Times|access-date=December 9, 2022}}</ref>
** [[August Zaleski]], 6th [[President of Poland]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[April 9]] – [[James F. Byrnes]], [[United States Secretary of State]] and Justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Henry de La Falaise]], French film director, [[Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France)|Croix de guerre]] recipient (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geneastar.org/celebrite/lejames/henry-de-la-falaise|title=Généalogie de Henry DE LA FALAISE|website=Geneanet}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] – [[Yasunari Kawabata]], Japanese novelist (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Yasunari Kawabata – Facts|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/kawabata-facts.html|access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] – [[Andrea Andreen]], Swedish physician (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vf.se/uncategorized/andrea-andreen-pionjaren-som-glomts-bort/|title=Andrea Andreen – pionjären som glömts bort|publisher=VF|date=November 6, 2015|author=Hansen, Maria|access-date=October 21, 2017|language=Swedish|archive-date=October 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021220206/https://www.vf.se/uncategorized/andrea-andreen-pionjaren-som-glomts-bort/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] 
** [[Fernando Amorsolo]], Filipino painter (b. [[1892]])
** [[Nora K. Chadwick]], English philologist (b. [[1891]]) 
* [[April 25]] – [[George Sanders]], Russian-born British actor (b. [[1906]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Kwame Nkrumah]], 1st [[President of Ghana]] (b. [[1909]])
* [[April 29]] – King [[Ntare V of Burundi]] (b. [[1947]])
* [[April 30]] 
** [[Gia Scala]], British actress (b. [[1934]])
** [[Clara Campoamor]], Spanish politician and suffragist (b. [[1888]])

===May===
[[File:Hoover-JEdgar-LOC.jpg|thumb|100px|[[J. Edgar Hoover]]]]
[[File:%EC%9D%B4%EB%B2%94%EC%84%9D.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Lee Beom-seok (prime minister)|Lee Beom-seok]]]]
[[File:Prince-Edward-Duke-of-Windsor-King-Edward-VIII (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Edward VIII]]]]
* [[May 2]] – [[J. Edgar Hoover]], American civil servant, 1st [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) (b. [[1895]])
* [[May 3]] – [[Bruce Cabot]], American actor (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 4]] 
** [[Father Chrysanthus]], Dutch arachnologist (b. 1905)<ref>{{cite journal|last=v[an] H[elsdingen]|first=P[eter] J.|date=1973|title=Father Chrysanthus O.F.M. Cap.: 1 September 1905 – 4 May 1972|journal=Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society|volume=2|issue=7|page=148|url=https://britishspiders.org.uk/node/2313}}</ref>
** [[Edward Calvin Kendall]], American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{cite journal|title=Edward C. Kendall|url=http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/ekendall.pdf|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|last=Ingle|first=Dwight|journal=Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences|year=1974|volume=47|pages=249–90|pmid=11615626}}</ref> 
** [[Josep Samitier]], Spanish footballer (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Reverend Gary Davis]], American blues and gospel singer (b. [[1896]])
** [[Frank Tashlin]], American animation director (b. [[1913]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Deniz Gezmiş]], Turkish Marxist revolutionary (executed) (b. [[1947]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Rice Gemmell]], Australian tennis champion (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Lee Beom-seok (prime minister)|Lee Beom-seok]], Korean activist, 1st [[Prime Minister of South Korea]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Lionel Penrose]], English geneticist (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.rcp.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/lionel-sharples-penrose|title=Lionel Sharples Penrose &#124; RCP Museum|website=history.rcp.ac.uk}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] – [[Dan Blocker]], American actor (b. [[1928]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Nigel Green]], South African-English actor (b. [[1924]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Gordon Lowe|Sir Gordon Lowe, Bt.]], British tennis player (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 22]]
** [[Cecil Day-Lewis]], British poet (b. [[1904]])
** Dame [[Margaret Rutherford]], English actress (b. [[1892]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Richard Day (art director)|Richard Day]], Canadian art director (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Asta Nielsen]], Danish silent film star (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/asta-nielsen-2/|title=Asta Nielsen – Women Film Pioneers Project|website=wfpp.columbia.edu}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] 
** The Duke of Windsor, previously King [[Edward VIII]] of the United Kingdom (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Warwick|title=Abdication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJufAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson|isbn=978-0-283-99351-0|page=166}}</ref>
** [[Violette Leduc]], French writer (b. [[1907]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Prithviraj Kapoor]], Indian actor and director (b. [[1906]])
* [[May 30]] – [[Watchman Nee]], Chinese Christian preacher and church leader (b. [[1903]])<ref>[https://www.watchmannee.org Watchman Nee (1903-1972)]</ref>
* [[May 31]] – [[Walter Jackson Freeman II]], American neurologist (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Jackson-Freeman-II|title=Walter Jackson Freeman II &#124; American Neurologist & Neurosurgeon &#124; Britannica|date=November 10, 2024|website=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>

===June===
[[File:Joe Deakin 1908.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joe Deakin]]]]
* [[June 9]] – [[Rudolf Belling]], German sculptor (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 12]]
** [[Saul Alinsky]], American political activist (b. [[1909]])
** [[Ludwig von Bertalanffy]], Austrian biologist (b. [[1901]])
** [[Edmund Wilson]], American writer and critic (b. [[1895]])
* [[June 13]]
** [[Georg von Békésy]], Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1899]])
** [[Stephanie von Hohenlohe]], Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spartacus-educational.com/Stephanie_von_Hohenlohe.htm|title=Stephanie von Hohenlohe|website=Spartacus Educational}}</ref>
** [[Clyde McPhatter]], American singer (b. [[1932]])
** [[Felix Stump]], American admiral (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/15/archives/adm-felixstump-led-pacifig-fleet-task-force-commander-in-battle-ef.html|title=ADM, FELIX STUMP, LED PACIFIC FLEET|date=June 15, 1972|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
* [[June 18]] – [[Milton L. Humason]], American astronomer (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Vladimir Durković]], Serbian footballer (b. [[1937]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Jan Matulka]], Czech-born American artist (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Jan_Matulka/24727/Jan_Matulka.aspx|title=Jan Matulka – Biography|website=askart.com}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] – [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]], Indian scientist (b. [[1893]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Joe Deakin]], British Olympic athlete (b. [[1879]])

===July===
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* [[July 2]] – [[Joseph Fielding Smith]], 10th president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-39998-0427, Paul-Henri Spaak.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul-Henri Spaak]]]][[July 5]] – [[Raúl Leoni]], 55th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1905]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Brandon deWilde]], American actor (b. [[1942]])
* [[July 7]]
** Patriarch [[Athenagoras I of Constantinople]] (b. [[1886]])
** King [[Talal of Jordan]] (b. [[1909]])
* [[July 8]] – [[Ghassan Kanafani]], Palestinian author (b. [[1936]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Geeta Dutt]], Indian singer (b. [[1930]])
* [[July 21]]
** [[Ralph Craig]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1889]])
** King [[Jigme Dorji Wangchuck]] (b. [[1929]])
* [[July 24]] − [[Lance Reventlow]], English playboy, entrepreneur and racing driver (b. [[1936]])
* [[July 25]] − [[Oscar Elton Sette]], American fisheries scientist (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aifrb.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/AIFRB-Biographies-web.pdf|title=Oscar Elton Sette|access-date=November 4, 2024|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220174404/http://www.aifrb.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/AIFRB-Biographies-web.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] – Count [[Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi]], Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Helen Traubel]], American soprano (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jan Onofrio|title=Missouri Biographical Dictionary|publisher=Somerset|year=2001|isbn=9780403095988|page=275}}</ref>
* [[July 31]]
** [[Alfons Gorbach]], Austrian politician, 15th [[Chancellor of Austria]] (b. [[1898]])
** [[Paul-Henri Spaak]], Belgian politician and statesman, 31st [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] and 2nd [[Secretary General of NATO]] (b. [[1899]])

===August===
[[File:Max Theiler nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Max Theiler]]]]
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* [[August 8]] – [[Andrea Feldman]], American actress (b. [[1948]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Ernst von Salomon]], German writer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Ernst von Salomon Dead; West German Author, 69|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/10/archives/ernst-yon-salomor-dead-i-west-g2_ror-69.html|access-date=November 18, 2021|work=The New York Times|date=August 10, 1972|location=Bonn}}</ref>
* [[August 11]] – [[Max Theiler]], South African-born American virologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 14]]
** [[File:Pavla Hočevar.jpg|thumb|110x110px|[[Pavla Hočevar]]]][[Oscar Levant]], American pianist and actor (b. [[1906]])
** [[Jules Romains]], French poet and writer (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Pierre Brasseur]], French actor (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Pierre Brasseur|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=August 10, 2024|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Brasseur}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] – [[Pavla Hočevar]], Slovenian teacher, writer, socialist and suffragist (b. 1889)<ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-06-27 |title=Pogumna feministka  - Časnik |url=https://www.casnik.si/pogumna-feministka/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808231552/https://www.casnik.si/pogumna-feministka/ |archive-date=2022-08-08 |access-date=2025-09-19 |work=Časnik |language=sl-SI}}</ref>
* [[August 20]] – [[Juan Manuel Gálvez]], 39th [[President of Honduras]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Jinichi Kusaka]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Francis Chichester|Sir Francis Chichester]], British sailor and aviator (b. [[1901]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Prince William of Gloucester]] (b. [[1941]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2536000/2536275.stm|title=1972: Prince William killed in plane crash|publisher=BBC News|work=On This Day|access-date=April 28, 2011|date=August 28, 1972}}</ref>
* [[August 29]] 
** [[Lale Andersen]], German singer (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Historic Record & AV Collector Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Cs5AQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=J. R. Wrigley|page=27}}</ref>
** [[René Leibowitz]], French composer (b. [[1913]])

===September===
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[[File:Asgeir Asgeirsson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ásgeir Ásgeirsson]]]]
[[File:Akim Tamiroff 1964.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Akim Tamiroff]]]]
* [[September 1]] – [[He Xiangning]], Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter and poet (b. [[1878]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chinesenewart.com/chinese-artists15/hexiangning.htm|title=He Xiangning – Chinese New Art – chinesenewart|website=chinesenewart.com}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] – [[Ivan Yumashev (admiral)|Ivan Yumashev]], Soviet admiral (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/83309/Yumashev-Ivan-Stepanovich.htm|title=Yumashev, Ivan Stepanovich – TracesOfWar.com|website=tracesofwar.com}}</ref>
* [[September 5]] ([[Munich massacre]]):
** [[Yossef Romano]], Israeli weightlifter (b. [[1940]])
** [[Moshe Weinberg]], Israeli wrestling coach (b. [[1939]])
* [[September 6]] ([[Munich massacre]]):
** [[David Berger (weightlifter)|David Berger]], Israeli weightlifter (b. [[1944]])
** [[Ze'ev Friedman]], Israeli weightlifter (b. [[1944]])
** [[Yossef Gutfreund]], Israeli wrestling referee (b. [[1931]])
** [[Eliezer Halfin]], Israeli wrestler (b. [[1948]])
** [[Amitzur Shapira]], Israeli athletics coach (b. [[1932]])
** [[Kehat Shorr]], Israeli shooting coach (b. [[1919]])
** [[Mark Slavin]], Israeli wrestler (b. [[1954]])
** [[Andre Spitzer]], Israeli fencing coach (b. [[1945]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Warren Kealoha]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1903]])
* [[September 12]] – [[William Boyd (actor)|William Boyd]], American actor (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Zoel Parenteau]], American composer (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/archives/zoel-raientiau-stage-composer-arranger-who-also-wrote-scores-is.html|title=Zoel Parenteau, Stage Composer|work=The New York Times|date=September 15, 1972|page=40}}</ref>
* [[September 15]]
** [[Ásgeir Ásgeirsson]], 2nd President of Iceland (b. [[1894]])
** [[Geoffrey Fisher]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Akim Tamiroff]], Armenian actor (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{Cite news|date=September 19, 1972|title=Akim Tamiroff, Actor, Is Dead; Had Screen Career of 35 Years|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/19/archives/-akim-tamiroff-actor-is-dead1-had-screen-career-of-35-years-exert.html|access-date=2021-06-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] – [[Robert Casadesus]], French pianist (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 21]] – [[Henry de Montherlant]], French writer (b. [[1896]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Max Fleischer]], American animator (b. [[1883]])

===October===
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* [[October 1]] – [[Louis Leakey]], British paleontologist (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{cite book|title=New Scientist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=167YFAML_o4C&pg=PA573|date=September 8, 1977|publisher=Reed Business Information|pages=573}}</ref> 
* [[October 5]] – [[Ivan Yefremov]], Soviet paleontologist and science fiction author (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Christy G. Turner II|author2=Nicolai D. Ovodov|author3=Olga V. Pavlova|title=Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8U5CAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA27|date=July 11, 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-06765-3|pages=27}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] – [[Prescott Bush]], American banker and politician (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Prescott-Bush|title=Prescott S. Bush &#124; Biography, Family Tree, & Facts &#124; Britannica|website=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] – [[Miriam Hopkins]], American actress (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Kenneth Edgeworth]], Irish army officer, economist and astronomer (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Irish Astronomical Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MDtBAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Irish Astronomical Society|page=3}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] – [[Leo G. Carroll]], English actor (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Ellenberger|first=Allan R.|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Company|date=2001|isbn=9780786409839|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZraJCgAAQBAJ|page=103|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=Mass Slated Today for Actor Leo G. Carroll|work=Valley News|date=October 19, 1972|page=35}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] – [[George, Crown Prince of Serbia]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Harlow Shapley]], American astronomer (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Dr. Harlow Shapley Dies at 86. Dean of American Astronomers. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dean of American Astronomers, Dies at 86|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/21/archives/dr-harlow-shapley-dies-at-86-dean-of-american-astronomers-dr-harlow.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 21, 1972|access-date=2014-01-15}}</ref>
* [[October 24]]
** [[Jackie Robinson]], African-American baseball player (b. [[1919]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0131.html|title=Jackie Robinson, First Black in Major Leagues, Dies|last=Anderson|first=Dave|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 27, 2009|date=October 25, 1972}}</ref> 
** [[Claire Windsor]], American actress (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/25/archives/claire-windsor-actress-74-dead-blonde-star-of-the-silent-screen-for.html|title=Claire Windsor, actress, 74, dead|date=October 25, 1972|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 25, 2020}}</ref>
* [[October 26]] – [[Igor Sikorsky]], Soviet aviation engineer (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/pdf/news%202013/April%202013%202.pdf|title=Igor Sikorsky Was a Reflection of His Heritage and Experiences in Life|last=Jacobson|first=Lee|date=April 2013|work=Sikorsky Archives News|publisher=Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives|access-date=October 12, 2021|page=3}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] – [[Katherine Oppenheimer]], American biologist (b. [[1910]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Mitchell Leisen]], American film director (b. [[1898]])

===November===
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* [[November 1]] – [[Ezra Pound]], American poet (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Ackroyd|title=Ezra Pound and His World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IccfAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-16798-5|page=116}}</ref>
* [[November 5]] – [[Reginald Owen]], English actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 12]]
** [[Rudolf Friml]], Czech composer (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ian Herbert|author2=Christine Baxter|author3=Robert E. Finley|title=Who's who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lAC1AAAAIAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Pitman|isbn=978-0-273-00163-8|page=1382}}</ref>
** [[José Nucete Sardi]], Venezuelan historian and diplomat (b. 1897)<ref>Mireya SOSA DE LEÓN: «Nucete Sardi, José». En: [http://bibliofep.fundacionempresaspolar.org/dhv/entradas/n/nucete-sardi-jose-vicente/ ''Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela'']. Venezuela: Fundación Empresas Polar, 1997. 980-6397-37-I.</ref>[[File:Prinsessan Sibylla.png|thumb|134x134px|[[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]]]
* [[November 13]] – [[Arnold Jackson (athlete)|Arnold Jackson]], British Olympic athlete (b. [[1891]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Martin Dies Jr.]], American politician (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Dies-Jr|title=Martin Dies, Jr. &#124; Texas Congressman, House Un-American Activities Committee &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref>
* [[November 17]]
** [[Thomas C. Kinkaid]], American admiral (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gerald E. Wheeler|title=Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, U.S. Navy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4wTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA486|year=1995|publisher=Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy|isbn=978-0-945274-26-1|pages=486}}</ref>
** [[Eugène Minkowski]], French psychiatrist (b. [[1885]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Marie Wilson (American actress)|Marie Wilson]], American actress (b. [[1916]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Henri Coandă]], Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. [[1886]])
* [[November 28]] 
** [[Havergal Brian]], English composer (b. [[1876]])
** [[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[November 29]] – [[Carl W. Stalling]], American musician (b. [[1891]])

===December===
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* [[December 1]] – [[Antonio Segni]], 34th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] and 4th [[President of the Italian Republic]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 2]]
** [[Ettore Bastico]], Italian field marshal (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://comandosupremo.com/ettore-bastico/|title=General Ettore Bastico (1876–1972)|first=Robert|last=Hansen|date=February 12, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Ip Man]], Chinese martial artist (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 9]]
** [[William Dieterle]], German film director (b. [[1893]])
** [[Louella Parsons]], American gossip columnist (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Donnelley|title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmYcAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7984-0|page=455}}</ref>
* [[December 11]] – [[Numa Turcatti]], Uruguayan law student, victim of the [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]] crash (b. [[1947]])<ref>{{Cite web|last=Guevara|first=Mauricio|date=January 11, 2024|title=¿Quién fue Numa Turcatti, el último muerto del vuelo 571 quien se negó a comer carne humana?|url=https://larepublica.pe/mundo/2024/01/07/quien-fue-numa-turcatti-ultima-victima-de-la-tragedia-de-los-andes-quien-se-nego-a-comer-carne-humana-la-sociedad-de-la-nieve-pancho-delgado-roberto-canessa-230741|access-date=2024-01-11|website=larepublica.pe|language=es}}</ref>
* [[December 12]] – [[Thomas H. Robbins Jr.]], American admiral (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/14/archives/adm-thomas-robbins-72-dies-aviator-led-naval-war-college.html|title=Adm. Thomas Robbins, 72, Dies; Aviator Led Naval War College|date=December 14, 1972|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] – [[René Mayer]], 91st [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Günter Eich]], German lyricist, dramatist and author (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 21]] 
** [[Horace Mann Bond]], American historian and college administrator (b. [[1904]])<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bond-horace-mann Bond, Horace Mann]</ref>
** [[Paul Hausser]], German Waffen SS general and commander (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williamson|first1=Gordon|title=German Commanders of World War II (2): Waffen-SS, Luftwaffe and Navy|date=2006|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=1-8417-6597-X|page=8}}</ref>
* [[December 23]] – [[Andrei Tupolev]], Soviet aircraft designer (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 24]] 
** [[Charles Atlas]], Italian-born American [[strongman (strength athlete)|strongman]] and [[sideshow]] performer (b. [[1892]])
** [[Gisela Richter]], English art historian (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/richter-gisela-1882-1972|title=Richter, Gisela (1882–1972) &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
* [[December 25]] – [[C. Rajagopalachari]], Indian politician and freedom-fighter. Last [[Governor-General of India]] (1948–50) (b. [[1878]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Harry S. Truman]], 33rd [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Lester B. Pearson]], 14th [[Prime Minister of Canada]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1897]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/series/primeministers/stories/obit-LBP.html|title=Lester Pearson dies in Ottawa|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=December 28, 1972|access-date=September 17, 2014|archive-date=June 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622024840/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/series/primeministers/stories/obit-LBP.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Joseph Cornell]], American sculptor (b. [[1903]])<ref>[https://americanart.si.edu/artist/joseph-cornell-995 Artist Joseph Cornell]</ref>
* [[December 31]] – [[Roberto Clemente]], Puerto Rican baseball player (b. [[1934]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0818.html|title=Clemente, Pirates' Star, Dies in Crash of Plane Carrying Aid to Nicaragua|work=The New York Times|date=January 2, 1973|access-date=January 3, 2019}}</ref>

==Nobel Prizes==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[John Bardeen]], [[Leon Neil Cooper]], [[John Robert Schrieffer]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Christian B. Anfinsen]], [[Stanford Moore]], [[William H. Stein]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Gerald M. Edelman]], [[Rodney R. Porter]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Heinrich Böll]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – not awarded
* [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Economics]] – [[John Hicks]], [[Kenneth Arrow]]

==Other academic awards==
* [[Turing Award]] – [[Edsger W. Dijkstra]]

==References==
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