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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Saul Alinsky
Activist
30-Jan-1909 12-Jun-1972 Rules for Radicals
Daisy Ashford
Novelist
7-Apr-1881 15-Jan-1972 The Young Visiters
Charles Atlas
Fitness Guru
30-Oct-1892 23-Dec-1972 Former 97-pound weakling
Gene Austin
Singer/Songwriter
24-Jun-1900 24-Jan-1972 Vaudeviller crooner and songwriter
Ross Bagdasarian
Musician
27-Jan-1919 16-Jun-1972 Progenitor of Alvin and the Chipmunks
John S. Battle
Politician
11-Jul-1890 9-Apr-1972 Governor of Virginia, 1950-54
Nicholas J. Begich
Politician
6-Apr-1932 16-Oct-1972 Congressman from Alaska, 1971-72
Georg von Békésy
Scientist
3-Jun-1899 13-Jun-1972 Mechanism of cochlear stimulation
John Berryman
Poet
25-Oct-1914 7-Jan-1972 Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Dan Blocker
Actor
10-Dec-1928 13-May-1972 Hoss on Bonanza
Hale Boggs
Politician
15-Feb-1914 16-Oct-1972 Congressman from Louisiana, 1941-72
Martin Boyd
Novelist
10-Jun-1893 3-Jun-1972 The Montforts
William Boyd
Actor
5-Jun-1895 12-Sep-1972 Hopalong Cassidy
Pat Brady
Actor
31-Dec-1914 27-Feb-1972 The Roy Rogers Show
Pierre Brasseur
Actor
22-Dec-1905 16-Aug-1972 Les Enfants du Paradis
Prescott Bush
Politician
15-May-1895 8-Oct-1972 US Senator from Connecticut, 1952-63
James F. Byrnes
Politician
2-May-1882 9-Apr-1972 US Secretary of State, 1945-47
Bruce Cabot
Actor
20-Apr-1904 3-May-1972 Saved Fay Wray from King Kong
Doyle E. Carlton
Politician
6-Jul-1885 25-Oct-1972 Governor of Florida, 1929-33
Leo G. Carroll
Actor
25-Oct-1892 16-Oct-1972 Waverly on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Hodding Carter
Journalist
3-Feb-1907 4-Apr-1972 Delta Democrat-Times
Robert Casadesus
Pianist
7-Apr-1899 19-Sep-1972 French pianist/composer
Lane Chandler
Actor
4-Jun-1899 14-Sep-1972 The Legion of the Condemned
Maurice Chevalier
Actor
12-Sep-1888 1-Jan-1972 Love Me Tonight
Roberto Clemente
Baseball
18-Aug-1934 31-Dec-1972 Puerto Rican baseball star
George D. Clyde
Politician
21-Jul-1898 2-Apr-1972 Governor of Utah, 1957-65
George Washington Collins
Politician
5-Mar-1925 8-Dec-1972 Congressman from Illinois, 1970-72
Padraic Colum
Novelist
8-Dec-1881 11-Jan-1972 Wild Earth
Joseph Cornell
Sculptor
24-Dec-1903 29-Dec-1972 Exponent of Assemblage
Charles J. Correll
Actor
2-Feb-1890 26-Sep-1972 Andy of Amos & Andy
Jerome Cowan
Actor
6-Oct-1897 24-Jan-1972 Miracle on 34th Street
John M. Dalton
Politician
9-Nov-1900 7-Jul-1972 Governor of Missouri, 1961-65
Cecil Day-Lewis
Poet
27-Apr-1904 22-May-1972 UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72
Brandon De Wilde
Actor
9-Apr-1942 6-Jul-1972 Shane! Come back!
Martin Dies, Jr.
Politician
5-Nov-1900 14-Nov-1972 Congressman from Texas
William Dieterle
Film Director
15-Jul-1893 8-Dec-1972 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Brian Donlevy
Actor
9-Feb-1901 5-Apr-1972 The Great McGinty
Henry Dreyfuss
Inventor
2-Mar-1904 5-Oct-1972 Product designer, human factors engineer
King Edward VIII
Royalty
23-Jun-1894 28-May-1972 King of England, 1936
Günter Eich
Poet
1-Feb-1907 20-Sep-1972 Züge im Nebel
James A. Elkins
Attorney
25-Sep-1879 7-May-1972 Vinson & Elkins
Allen J. Ellender
Politician
24-Sep-1890 27-Jul-1972 US Senator from Louisiana, 1937-72
Buford Ellington
Politician
27-Jun-1907 3-Apr-1972 Twice Governor of Tennessee
M. C. Escher
Artist
17-Jun-1898 27-Mar-1972 Illogical lithographer
Norman Foerster
Critic
14-Apr-1887 1-Aug-1972 New Humanist movement
John Folinsbee
Painter
14-Mar-1892 10-May-1972 Impressionist painter
Raymond B. Fosdick
Business
9-Jun-1883 19-Jul-1972 President of the Rockefeller Foundation
Sidney Franklin
Film Director
21-Mar-1893 18-May-1972 The Good Earth
Frederick IX
Royalty
11-Mar-1899 14-Jan-1972 King of Denmark, 1947-72
Rudolf Friml
Composer
7-Dec-1884 12-Nov-1972 The Vagabond King
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Physicist
28-Jun-1906 20-Feb-1972 Shell nuclear model
Paul Goodman
Anarchist
9-Sep-1911 2-Aug-1972 Growing Up Absurd
Nigel Green
Actor
15-Oct-1924 15-May-1972 The Ipcress File
Franz Halder
Military
30-Jun-1884 2-Apr-1972 Nazi general
Virginia Hammond
Actor
20-Aug-1893 6-Apr-1972 Romeo and Juliet
Harold W. Handley
Politician
27-Nov-1909 30-Aug-1972 Governor of Indiana, 1957-61
L. P. Hartley
Novelist
30-Dec-1895 13-Dec-1972 The Boat
Gabby Hartnett
Baseball
20-Dec-1900 20-Dec-1972 Chicago Cubs catcher, Hall-of-Famer
Carl T. Hayden
Politician
2-Oct-1877 25-Jan-1972 US Senator from Arizona, 1927-69
Gil Hodges
Baseball
4-Apr-1924 2-Apr-1972 Eight-time All-Star
J. Edgar Hoover
Government
1-Jan-1895 2-May-1972 Director of the FBI, 1924-72
Miriam Hopkins
Actor
18-Oct-1902 9-Oct-1972 The Story of Temple Drake
Mahalia Jackson
Singer
26-Oct-1911 27-Jan-1972 Queen of Gospel Music
Emrys Jones
Actor
22-Sep-1915 10-Jul-1972 One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Younghill Kang
Author
10-May-1903 11-Dec-1972 The Grass Roof
Yasunari Kawabata
Author
11-Jun-1899 16-Apr-1972 The Masters of Go
Edward C. Kendall
Scientist
8-Sep-1886 4-May-1972 Adrenocortical hormones
Jessie Royce Landis
Actor
25-Nov-1896 2-Nov-1972 North by Northwest
Sidney Lanfield
Film Director
30-Apr-1898 20-Jun-1972 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Walter Lang
Film Director
10-Aug-1896 7-Feb-1972 There's No Business Like Show Business
Joi Lansing
Actor
6-Apr-1929 7-Aug-1972 Gladys Flatt on The Beverly Hillbillies
Louis Leakey
Anthropologist
7-Aug-1903 1-Oct-1972 Discovered Homo Habilis
D. Ross Lederman
Film Director
12-Dec-1894 24-Aug-1972 Tarzan's Revenge
Mitchell Leisen
Film Director
6-Oct-1898 28-Oct-1972 Death Takes a Holiday
Oscar Levant
Pianist
27-Dec-1906 14-Aug-1972 Panelist, Information Please
John Litel
Actor
30-Dec-1892 3-Feb-1972 Two Dollar Bettor
Heinrich Lübke
Head of State
14-Oct-1892 6-Apr-1972 President of Germany, 1959-69
Compton MacKenzie
Novelist
17-Jan-1883 30-Nov-1972 Carnival
Lincoln MacVeagh
Diplomat
1-Oct-1890 15-Jan-1972 Roosevelt's Ambassador to Greece
Jean Madeira
Singer
14-Nov-1924 11-Jul-1972 Operatic contralto, Carmen
Marilyn Maxwell
Actor
3-Aug-1921 20-Mar-1972 Stand by for Action
Hugh McDermott
Actor
20-Mar-1906 29-Jan-1972 The Seventh Veil
Neil H. McElroy
Government
30-Oct-1904 30-Nov-1972 US Secretary of Defense, 1957-59
Ruth McKenney
Author
18-Nov-1911 25-Jul-1972 My Sister Eileen
Marianne Moore
Poet
15-Nov-1887 5-Feb-1972 Collected Poems
Lee Morgan
Jazz Musician
10-Jul-1938 19-Feb-1972 The Sidewinder
Manuel Gomez Morin
Politician
27-Feb-1897 19-Apr-1972 One of the Seven Sages of Mexico
Janet Munro
Actor
28-Sep-1934 6-Dec-1972 Swiss Family Robinson
Tom Neal
Actor
28-Jan-1914 7-Aug-1972 Detour
Kwame Nkrumah
Head of State
21-Sep-1909 27-Apr-1972 First President of Ghana
Reginald Owen
Actor
5-Aug-1887 5-Nov-1972 Prolific character actor
Lew Parker
Actor
29-Oct-1907 27-Oct-1972 Lew Marie on That Girl
Louella Parsons
Columnist
6-Aug-1881 9-Dec-1972 Hollywood queen of gossip
Kenneth Patchen
Poet
13-Dec-1911 8-Jan-1972 Journal of Albion Moonlight
Lester Bowles Pearson
Head of State
23-Apr-1897 27-Dec-1972 Prime Minister of Canada, 1963-68
Ezra Pound
Poet
30-Oct-1885 1-Nov-1972 The Cantos
Adam Clayton Powell
Politician
29-Nov-1908 4-Apr-1972 Congressman from New York, 1945-71
Jackie Robinson
Baseball
31-Jan-1919 24-Oct-1972 First negro in the major leagues
Wesley Ruggles
Film Director
11-Jun-1889 8-Jan-1972 Cimarron
Jimmy Rushing
Singer
26-Aug-1901 8-Jun-1972 Mr. Five By Five
Margaret Rutherford
Actor
11-May-1892 22-May-1972 The V.I.P.s
George Sanders
Actor
3-Jul-1906 25-Apr-1972 The Saint Strikes Back
Gia Scala
Actor
3-Mar-1934 30-Apr-1972 The Guns of Navarone
Rose Schneiderman
Labor Leader
16-Apr-1882 11-Aug-1972 Union leader of the 1920s-'50s
Harlow Shapley
Astronomer
2-Nov-1885 20-Oct-1972 Organizer of Heaven
Igor Sikorsky
Business
25-May-1889 26-Oct-1972 Helicopter magnate
Alexander Smallens
Conductor
1-Jan-1889 24-Nov-1972 Russian-born American conductor
Betty Smith
Novelist
15-Dec-1896 17-Jan-1972 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Warren L. Smith
Economist
23-Mar-1914 20-Apr-1972 Council of Economic Advisers, 1968-69
Paul-Henri Spaak
Head of State
25-Jan-1899 31-Jul-1972 Belgian Prime Minister, NATO chief
Carl Stalling
Composer
10-Nov-1891 29-Nov-1972 Composer for hundreds of Looney Tunes
Lloyd C. Stark
Politician
23-Nov-1886 17-Sep-1972 Governor of Missouri, 1937-41
Akim Tamiroff
Actor
29-Oct-1899 17-Sep-1972 For Whom the Bell Tolls
Frank Tashlin
Film Director
19-Feb-1913 5-May-1972 Artists and Models
Max Theiler
Scientist
30-Jan-1899 11-Aug-1972 Yellow fever vaccination
Llewellyn E. Thompson
Diplomat
24-Aug-1904 6-Feb-1972 Twice US Ambassador to USSR
Stephen Timoshenko
Engineer
23-Dec-1878 29-May-1972 Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
Helen Traubel
Singer
16-Jun-1899 28-Jul-1972 Wagnerian soprano
Harry S. Truman
Head of State
8-May-1884 26-Dec-1972 33rd US President, 1945-53
Edgar G. Ulmer
Film Director
17-Sep-1904 30-Sep-1972 Detour
Robert W. Upton
Politician
3-Feb-1884 28-Apr-1972 US Senator from New Hampshire, 1953-54
Mark Van Doren
Poet
13-Jun-1894 10-Dec-1972 The Happy Critic
Hal Walker
Film Director
20-Mar-1896 3-Jul-1972 Road to Bali
Sinclair Weeks
Government
15-Jun-1893 7-Feb-1972 US Commerce Secretary, 1953-58
Edmund Wilson
Author
8-May-1895 12-Jun-1972 Axel's Castle
Marie Wilson
Actor
19-Aug-1916 23-Nov-1972 My Friend Irma
Walter Winchell
Radio Personality
7-Apr-1897 20-Feb-1972 Gossip commentator


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