page_title: 1972
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 / Deaths / July
caption_attribution_description: Talal I, King of Jordan العربية: صورة للملك طلال بن عبد الله بن الحسين، إبن الملك عبد الله الأول مؤسس المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية_إستلم الملك طلال حكم المملكة الأردنية بعد وفاة والده من عام 1951 إلى عام 1952
context_page_description: 1972 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
  Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.
context_section_description: July 2 – Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
  July 4 – Enrique Telémaco Susini, Argentine entrepreneur (b. 1891)
  July 5 – Raúl Leoni, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1905)
  July 6 – Brandon deWilde, American actor (b. 1942)
  July 7
  Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
  King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
  July 11 – Celina Guimarães Viana, Brazilian professor and suffragist (b. 1890)
  July 15 – Miklós Dudás, Hungarian Roman Catholic bishop and servant of God (b. 1902)
  July 20 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer (b. 1930)
  July 21
  Ralph Craig, American Olympic athlete (b. 1889)
  King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (b. 1929)
  July 24 − Lance Reventlow, English playboy, entrepreneur and race car driver (b. 1936)
  July 27 – Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese politician, geopolitician and philosopher (b. 1894)
  July 28 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
  July 31
  Alfons Gorbach, Austrian politician, 15th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1898)
  Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician and statesman, 31st Prime Minister of Belgium and 2nd Secretary General of NATO (b. 1899)
caption: Talal of Jordan
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