People who died at the age of 72

• Charles Lindbergh
• Leonard Bernstein
• William Howard Taft
• Thomas Paine
• Getulio Vargas
• Trygve Lie
• Ralph DePalma
• Marguerite Durand
• Louis Pasteur
• Prince Eugene of Savoy
• John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
• Pope Alexander VI
• Maurice Rabb, Jr.
• Bob Buhl
• Robert Mills (physicist)
• Henry Way Kendall
• Lev Demin
• Alexis Smith
• James Harry Lacey
• Damaso Perez Prado