People who died at the age of 72

• Johann Dominicus Fiorillo
• Artemas Ward
• Nicolas Luckner
• Jacques Cazotte
• Frederick Haldimand
• Matthew Tilghman
• Israel Putnam
• Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
• William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot
• Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin
• Samuel Wesley (poet)
• Marin Marais
• Thomas Pitt
• John Robinson (1650-1723)
• Elihu Yale
• John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
• Joseph Dudley
• Philippe de Champaigne
• Alessandro Allori
• Johannes Agricola