People who died at the age of 72

• Toyoda Soemu
• Sacha Guitry
• Jose Ortega y Gasset
• Sam Langford
• Florence Easton
• Jessie Aspinall
• Aleister Crowley
• Gertrude Stein
• Hans Spemann
• Cai Yuanpei
• Paul Elmer More
• Tommy Tucker (19th century baseball player)
• Arthur Henderson
• Christiaan Eijkman
• John William Wood Sr.
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
• Eugene Grasset
• Georg Cantor
• Henry James
• Giuseppe Cesare Abba