page_title: 1972
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: King Frederick IX of Denmark (king 1947-1972). Photo from 1935.
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: January 1
  Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (b. 1888)
  Patriarch Maximus V of Constantinople, Turkish Orthodox Christian bishop (b. 1897)
  Jane Morgan, British-born American actor and singer (b. 1880)
  January 3 – Frans Masereel, Belgian painter and graphic artist (b. 1889)
  January 7 – Emma P. Carr, American spectroscopist (b. 1880)
  January 8
  Edwin Hugh Lundie, American architect (b. 1886)
  Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (b. 1911)
  Wesley Ruggles, American film director (b. 1889)
  January 9 – Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
  January 16 – Ross Bagdasarian Sr., American record producer (Alvin and the Chipmunks) (b. 1919)
  January 17
  Rochelle Hudson, American actress (b. 1916)
  Betty Smith, American writer (b. 1896)
  January 18 – Clarence Earl Gideon, American defendant in civil rights court case (Gideon v. Wainwright) (b. 1910)
  January 19 – Mohammad Al-Abbasi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and 45th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1914)
  January 24 – Jerome Cowan, American actor (b. 1897)
  January 25 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal and Luftwaffe officer (b. 1892)
  January 27 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer (b. 1911)
  January 29 – Hugh McDermott, British actor and golfer (b. 1908)
  January 30 – Prince Sisowath Watchayavong, 5th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1891)
  January 31 – King Mahendra of Nepal (b. 1920)
caption: King Frederick IX of Denmark
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