1972 (MCMLXXII ) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
Theatrical releases [ ] Feature films [ ] January 13 - The Cowboys February 2
February 25 - Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues March 9 - What's Up, Doc? March 10 - What's Up, Doc? May 24 - Malcolm X June - Adam's Woman
June 7 - Get to Know Your Rabbit June 19 - Portnoy's Complaint June 29
July 30 - Deliverance August - Cry for Me, Billy
August 4 - Super Fly August 11 - Deliverance August 18 - Deliverance September 21 - Cancel My Reservation September 24 - The Emigrants November 17 - Dracula AD 1972 November 22 - Rage November 29 - Crescendo December 2 - Jeremiah Johnson Television [ ] Theme park happenings [ ] People [ ] Births [ ] Deaths [ ] January 1 - Maurice Chevalier (singer, actor, composer, lyricist and writer)January 17 - Rochelle Hudson (actress)January 19 - Richard Fraser (actor)January 24 - Jerome Cowan (actor)February 2 - Jessie Royce Landis (actress)February 3 - John Litel (actor)February 7
February 8 - May Craig (actress)February 19 - Tedd Pierce (writer, animator, voice actor and artist)March 2 - Walter Byron (actor)March 20 - Marilyn Maxwell (actress and entertainer)March 23 - Margaret Dale (actress)March 30 - Peter Whitney (actor)March 31 - Phil Kramer (actor)April 5 - Isabel Jewell (actress)April 6
April 7
Betty Blythe (actress)Victor Wong (actor)April 8 - Charles Hoffman (writer and producer)April 10 - Harry Strang (actor)April 18 - Winifred Harris (actress)April 25 - George Sanders (actor and voice actor)May 3 - Bruce Cabot (actor)May 5
Kenneth MacDonald (actor)Frank Tashlin (animator, screenwriter, director and author)May 6 - Clarence Kolster (film editor)May 12 - Steve Ihnat (actor and director)May 13 - Dan Blocker (actor)May 24 - Gavin Muir (actor)June 25
Nicholas Hannen (actor)Charles Sullivan (actor)July 10 - Charlotte Merriam (actress)August 13 - Patrick Waltz (actor)August 14 - Oscar Levant (concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian and actor)August 24 - D. Ross Lederman (film director, producer and writer)August 27 - Gaby André (actress)August 28 - Webster Campbell (actor, director and screenwriter)September 14 - Lane Chandler (actor)September 17 - Akim Tamiroff (actor)October - Ted Bonnicksen (animator)
October 4 - Colin Gordon (actor)October 9 - Miriam Hopkins (actress)October 16 - Leo G. Carroll (actor)October 21 - Felix Felton (voice actor, director, composer and author)October 24 - Claire Windsor (actress)November 5 - Reginald Owen (actor)November 7 - Tod Andrews (actor)November 21 - Tom Palmer (director)November 23
November 29
December 9
Louella Parsons (gossip columnist and screenwriter)William Dieterle (actor and film director)December 15 - Edward Earle (actor)Events [ ] Character debuts [ ] References [ ] 
