1972

Friday, 26 October 2012

Roxy Music - Virginia Plain (Live TOTP 1972)

Hold Your Head Up-Argent-1972-(Long Version)

David Bowie - Five Years Live on Old Grey Whistle Test 1972

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Aden
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Alabama
Alabama () is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland waterways. The state ranks 23rd in population with almost 4.6 million residents in 2006.
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Aldershot
Aldershot is a town in the English county of Hampshire, located on heathland about 60 km (37 miles) southwest of London. The town is administered by Rushmoor Borough Council. The town has a population of 33,840, whilst the Aldershot Urban Area, a loose conurbation (which also includes other towns, such as Camberley, Farnborough, and Farnham) has a population of 243,344, making it the thirtieth-largest urban area in the UK
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (; Dutch ) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, with an urban population of 1,364,422 and a metropolitan population of 2,158,372. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe, with a population of approximately 6.7 million.
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Bangladesh
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Belfast
Belfast () is the capital of and the largest city in Northern Ireland. It is the seat of devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly. It is the largest urban area in Northern Ireland, the second-largest city in Ireland and the 15th-largest city in the United Kingdom. It is the main settlement in the province of Ulster. The city of Belfast has a population of 267,500 and lies at the heart of the Belfast urban area, which has a population of 483,418. The Belfast metropolitan area has a total population of 579,276. Belfast is also the 100th-largest urban zone in the EU. Belfast was granted city status in 1888.
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Berlin
Berlin (; ) is the capital city of Germany and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Area, comprising 5 million people from over 190 nations. Geographically embedded in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's territory is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.
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Black Hills flood
The Black Hills Flood of 1972, in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota, USA, occurred on June 9, 1972. The extreme rainfall of around of rain in 6 hours sent Rapid Creek and other creeks overflowing and flooded many residential and commercial properties around the Black Hills. During the night of June 9, the Canyon Lake Dam became clogged with debris and failed, resulting in 238 deaths and 3,057 injuries. Several bodies were never found. There were over 1,335 homes and 5,000 automobiles destroyed. The value of the damaged property was over $160M 1972 in dollars.
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Bradford
Bradford () lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897. Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the wider metropolitan borough.
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Brazil
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Canberra
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Ceylon
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Chile
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Ciudad Perdida
Ciudad Perdida (Spanish for "Lost City") is the archaeological site of an ancient city in Sierra Nevada, Colombia. It is believed to have been founded about 800 A.D., some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu. This location is also known as Buritaca and the Native Americans call it Teyuna.
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Claudy
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Colombia
Colombia (), officially the Republic of Colombia (, ), is a constitutional republic in northwestern South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the northwest by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also shares maritime borders with Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico, the United States, and Spain.
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Colorado
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County Londonderry
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Czechoslovakia
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Derry
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Dublin
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East Germany
The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR), informally called East Germany by the West, was the socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany and in the East Berlin portion of the Allied-occupied capital city. The German Democratic Republic, which consisted geographically of northeast Germany rather than all of eastern Germany, had an area of 107,771 km2. (41,610 mi.2), bordering Czechoslovakia in the south, West Germany (officially: Federal Republic of Germany) in the south and west, the Baltic Sea to the north, and Poland in the east.
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Ecuador
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Everglades
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Faroe Islands
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Fars Province
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Florida
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Gulf of Tonkin
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Haiphong
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Hamburg
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Hanoi
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Honolulu
Honolulu () is the capital of and the most populous census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and the county are consolidated, known as the City and County of Honolulu, and the city and county is designated as the entire island. The City and County of Honolulu is the only incorporated city in Hawaii, as all other local government entities are administered at the county level. The population of the CDP was 371,657 at the 2000 census, while the population of the City and County was 909,863, making it the 57th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Honolulu is also the most populous state capital relative to state population. In the Hawaiian language, Honolulu means "sheltered bay" or "place of shelter".
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Idaho
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Iran
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Iraq
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Israel
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Laurel, Maryland
Laurel is a city in northern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located midway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Incorporated in 1870, the city maintains a historic district including its Main Street. The official 2007 population estimate for Laurel city was 21,619; adding the residents in Laurel's postal zip codes outside city limits, the population was 87,810 as of the 2000 census.
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Libya
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Lufthansa
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Luxembourg
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Managua
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Miami Beach
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Milwaukee
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Monza
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Mozambique
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Munich Massacre
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Munich massacre
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NASA
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Newry
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Nicaragua
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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North Vietnam
North Vietnam, also called the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) (), was a communist state that ruled the northern half of Vietnam from 1954 until 1976 following the Geneva Conference and laid claim to all of Vietnam from 1945 to 1954 during the First Indochina War, during which they controlled pockets of territory throughout the country.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK Census, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom.
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Okinawa
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Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court in England, commonly known as the Old Bailey from the street in which it stands, is a court building in central London, one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court. The Crown Court sitting at the Central Criminal Court deals with major criminal cases from Greater London and, in exceptional cases, from other parts of England. Part of the present building stands on the site of the medieval Newgate Gaol, on Old Bailey, a road which follows the line of the City of London's fortified wall (or bailey). It lies between Holborn Circus and St Paul's Cathedral.
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Osaka
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.
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Pakistan
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Palermo
Palermo (, Sicilian: Palermu, , from , Panormos, , Balharm) is a historic city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its rich history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Palermo is located in the northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Philippines
The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Pietà (Michelangelo)
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Pruitt–Igoe
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Puerto Rico
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Rabat
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Republic of China
The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia located off the east coast of mainland China. Subject to an ongoing dispute with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that has left it with limited formal diplomatic relations, the government of the Republic of China currently governs the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
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Republic of Minerva
The Republic of Minerva was one of the few modern attempts at creating a sovereign micronation on the reclaimed land of an artificial island in 1972. The architect was Las Vegas real estate millionaire and political activist Michael Oliver, who went on to other similar attempts in the following decade. Lithuanian-born Oliver formed a syndicate, the Ocean Life Research Foundation, which allegedly had some $100,000,000 for the project and had offices in New York and London. They anticipated a libertarian society with "no taxation, welfare, subsidies, or any form of economic interventionism." In addition to tourism and fishing, the economy of the new nation would include light industry and other commerce. According to Glen Raphael, "The chief reason that the Minerva project failed was that the libertarians who were involved did not want to fight for their territory." According to Reason, Minerva has been "more or less reclaimed by the sea."
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Reykjavík
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Saltillo
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Sevilla
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Somalia
Somalia ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Somalia (, ) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under communist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Ethiopia to the west. With the longest coastline on the continent, its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands.
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South Dakota
South Dakota () is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over 800,000. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of nearly 160,000, is South Dakota's largest city.
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Soviet Union
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Sri Lanka
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (commonly known as Sri Lanka (, , or ); ; , ) is a country and a sovereign state off souther coast of the Indian subcontinent. A island nation in South Asia, it was till 1972 known as Ceylon (, , or ). Sri Lanka is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
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Staines air disaster
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Taiwan
Taiwan, also known (especially in the past) as Formosa (from , "Beautiful Island"), is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It comprises most (99%) of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" is also a common name to refer to the entire country of the Republic of China.
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Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania (; phonetical: tan-zann-ei-a; or sometimes tan-zanneia; ) is a country in central East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.
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Tete
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The Pierre Hotel
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Tonga
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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Uganda
The Republic of Uganda ( or ) is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, which is also bordered by Kenya and Tanzania.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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Vietnam
Vietnam ( ; , ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (, ), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China (PRC) to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea, referred to as East Sea (), to the east. With a population of over 86 million, Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world.
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West Virginia
West Virginia () is a state in the Appalachian and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, and Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast. The capital and largest city is Charleston.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
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Yellow River
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Yugoslavia
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A-Mei
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Aaron Guiel
Aaron Colin Guiel (; born October 5, 1972 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a professional baseball outfielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He has also played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals (-) and New York Yankees (2006).
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Abeid Karume
Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume (1905–April 7, 1972), was the first President of Zanzibar. He obtained this title as a result of a popular revolution which lead to the deposing of the last Sultan in Zanzibar during January 1964. Three months later, the United Republic of Tanzania was founded as Tanzania, prompting Karume to become the first Vice President of the United Republic along with Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika as president. He was the father of Zanzibar's current president - Amani Abeid Karume.
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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Akim Tamiroff
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Aksel Larsen
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Alcazar (band)
Alcazar is a Swedish eurodance group which has established themselves as one of Sweden's most successful music groups with a string of hits since their debut single in 1999. Worldwide Alcazar had sold records over 12 million between 2001 and 2004. Alcazar have also had success around the world with their song "Crying at the Discoteque", having charted in countries such as USA, Brazil, Australia, Japan and most countries in Europe.
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Alen Peternac
Alen Peternac (born January 16, 1972 in Zagreb) is a former Croatian footballer.
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Alex Comfort
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Alexei Shirov
Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov (, ; born July 4, 1972) is a Latvian-born Spanish chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998. Shirov is also a well-regarded chess author.
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Alf-Inge Haaland
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Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and former singer. Her acting career began at age 8 with a National Tour of the musical Annie. Her childhood role as Samantha Micelli in the sitcom ''Who's the Boss? made her famous, and an eight-year stint as Phoebe Halliwell on the supernatural series Charmed brought her a new round of fame. She also starred on the ABC series Romantically Challenged'' as Rebecca Thomas.
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Amanda Peet
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress, who has appeared on film, stage, and television. After studying with Uta Hagen at Columbia University, Peet began her career in television commercials, and progressed to small roles on television, before making her film debut in 1995. Featured roles in films such as The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her recognition and she was named one of ''People's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 2000. Since then, she has appeared in a variety of films, including Something's Gotta Give (2003), Syriana (2005), and 2012'' (2009).
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Amitzur Shapira
Amitzur Shapira (; 1932 - September 6, 1972) was an Israeli short distance runners in the 1950s and a coach for the Israeli track and field team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. At the time of his death he was also one of the country's best track coaches.
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Anders Iwers
Anders Iwers is a Swedish bass player in the Heavy metal band Tiamat. He has been in and out of other Swedish death metal bands The Awesome Machine, Cemetary, and Mercury Tide. & Ceremonial Oath. Anders is the brother of Peter Iwers, bassist of In Flames in which Anders once was a part of.
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Andre Obrecht
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Andre Spitzer
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Andreas Baader
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Andreas Goldberger
Andreas Goldberger (born 29 November 1972 in Ried im Innkreis, Austria) is a former ski jumper. He was one of the best in his sport during the 1990s. His favorite type of hill to jump from is known as the 'ski-flying' hill, where jumpers have travelled distances in the range of 240 metres.
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Andreas Lundstedt
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Ang Christou
Ang Christou (born 16 January 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
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Angela Bloomfield
Angela Bloomfield (born 16 December 1972) is a New Zealand actress and director.
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Angela Davis
Angela Davis (b. January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist, philosopher, political activist and retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was the director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Davis was largely active during the Civil Rights Movement and was associated with the Black Panthers. Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons.
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Angham
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Angie Harmon
Angela Michelle "Angie" Harmon (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model and television/film actress. She became a well-known model in the 1990s and developed a career as a television star after roles on Baywatch Nights and Law & Order.
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Anika Noni Rose
Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American singer and actress. She is well known for her Tony Award winning performance in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change and her starring roles in the films Dreamgirls and The Princess and the Frog.
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Antonio Sabato Jr.
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Anwar Sadat
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Arab
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Ari Behn
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Arthur Bremer
Arthur Herman Bremer (born August 21, 1950) is an American convicted for an assassination attempt on U.S. Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on May 15, 1972 in Laurel, Maryland, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, for the rest of his life. Bremer was found guilty and sentenced to 63 years (53 years after an appeal) in a Maryland prison for the shooting of Wallace and three bystanders.
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Arturo Gatti
http://wn.com/Arturo_Gatti
Asha Gill
Asha Anand Gill (born July 3, 1972 in Pembury, Kent, England) is a Malaysia-based model, television host, deejay, veejay, writer, producer, film director, and women's rights activist. Her father is Indian and her mother is English with some French heritage.
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Ashot Nadanian
Ashot Nadanian (sometimes transliterated as Nadanyan; ; ; born September 19, 1972 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union) is an Armenian chess International Master (1997), theoretician and coach.
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Asta Nielsen
Asta Nielsen (11 September 1881 - 24 May 1972), was a Danish silent film actress who was one of the most popular leading ladies of the 1910s and one of the first international movie stars. Seventy of Nielsen's 74 films were made in Germany where she was known simply as Die Asta (The Asta). Noted for her large dark eyes, mask-like face and boyish figure, Nielsen most often portrayed strong-willed passionate women trapped by tragic consequences. Due to the erotic nature of her performances, Nielsen's films were heavily censored in the United States and her work remained relatively obscure to American audiences. She is credited with transforming movie acting from overt theatricality to a more subtle naturalistic style. Nielsen founded her own film studio in Berlin during the 1920s, but returned to Denmark in 1937 after the rise of Nazism in Germany. A private figure in her later years, Nielsen became a collage artist and an author.
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August Zaleski
August Zaleski (September 13, 1883 - April 7, 1972) was a Polish economist, politician, and diplomat. Twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, he served as the President of Poland within the Polish Government in Exile.
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Avi Nimni
Avi Nimni (born April 26, 1972) is Maccabi Tel Aviv's highest ever scorer and is regarded as one of Maccabi Tel Aviv's greatest players ever. Until 2006, he served as the captain of the Israeli national football team. His number eight (8) shirt has become so symbolic (despite him wearing the number sixteen as a youth, because Uri Malmilian wore the number 8) that the club has recently announced that his number will be retired at the end of this season..
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Bae Yong Joon
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Barron Miles
Barron Miles (born January 1, 1972 in Roselle, New Jersey) is a retired professional Canadian football player for the Canadian Football League. He is now a Defensive and Player Personnel Assistant for the BC Lions. Miles finished his career tied for second all-time in career interceptions with 66 and as the all-time leader in blocked kicks with 13.
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Ben Richards
Ben Richards (born 27 March 1972, in Rustington, Sussex) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Bruno Milligan in series 4 and 5 of the British TV drama ''Footballers' Wives and in series 1 and 2 of its spin-off ''. He also appeared in the final ever mini-episode of Footballers' Wives shown on 17 July 2006 as part of Sport Relief night.
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Bernard Ackah
Bernard Ackah (April 9, 1972) is a German-born, Japanese-based Ivorian taekwondo practitioner, kickboxer, mixed martial artist and comedian.
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Betty Blythe
Betty Blythe (September 1, 1893 – April 7, 1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba (1921).
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Betty Smith
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Billel Dziri
Billel Dziri (born 21 January 1972 in Alger) is an Algerian football player who is currently playing for USM Alger.
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is the lead vocalist, chief songwriter, and lead guitarist for the American punk rock band Green Day. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and sings for garage rock band Foxboro Hot Tubs when not working with Green Day.
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Birendra of Nepal
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Bob Barker
Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12, 1923) is an American former television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975. After holding the "Price is Right" job for 35 years and being in television for 50 years, Barker retired in June 2007.
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Bob Douglas
Robert L. "Bob" Douglas (November 4, 1882 - July 16, 1979) was the founder of the New York Renaissance basketball team. Nicknamed the "Father of Black Professional Basketball", Douglas owned and coached the Rens from 1923 to 1949, guiding them to a 2,318-381 record (.859). He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1972, the first African American enshrined.
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Bob Sapp
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Bobby Lee
Bobby Lee (born September 17, 1976) is an American actor and comedian, notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on the live comedy series MADtv.
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Boris Spassky
Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij; ; born January 30, 1937) is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from late 1969 to 1972.
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Brad Paisley
Bradley Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer-songwriter and country guitarist. His style crosses between traditional country and Southern rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references.
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Brad Patton
Brad Patton (born Joel Mangs 7 August 1972, in Melbourne, Australia), is a former gay porn star. Brad spent most of his time growing up in Sweden before being discovered by porn director Chi Chi LaRue. He currently lives in Amsterdam.
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Brad Radke
Brad William Radke (born October 27, 1972) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played his entire 12 season career with the Minnesota Twins. He officially announced his retirement from baseball on December 19, .
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Brad Zavisha
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Brian Donlevy
Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 5, 1972) was an Irish-born American film actor, noted for playing tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best known films are Beau Geste (1939) and The Great McGinty (1940). For his role as Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Brian Molko
Brian Molko (born 10 December 1972 in Brussels, Belgium) is a songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Placebo.
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Bruce Cabot
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Budi Putra
Budi Putra (born September 12, 1972 ) is a technology journalist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Prior to joining Yahoo! as Country Editor for Indonesia in October 2009, he was working as editor for Koran Tempo Daily and Tempo Interactive. After resigned from Tempo on March 2007, Budi writes tech posts for SlashPhone and runs a Jakarta-based Asia Blogging Network.
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Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known as Busta Rhymes (born May 20, 1972), is an American rapper, songwriter, and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes (from former NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes).
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C. Rajagopalachari
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari () (10 December 1878 - 25 December 1972), informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist, politician, writer, statesman and leader of the Indian National Congress who was the last Governor-General of India. He served as the Premier of the Madras Presidency, Governor of West Bengal, Minister for Home Affairs of the Indian Union and Chief Minister of Madras state. He was the founder of the Swatantra Party and was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. Rajaji vehemently opposed the use of nuclear weapons and was a proponent of world peace and disarmament. He was also nicknamed the Mango of Salem.
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Cameron Diaz
Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She gained fame in the 1990s with roles in the blockbuster films The Mask, ''My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary. Other notable film credits include Charlie's Angels, Vanilla Sky, Gangs of New York, and voicing Princess Fiona in the Shrek film series. Diaz received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in There's Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, and Gangs of New York''.
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Carl Stalling
Carl W. Stalling (November 10, 1891—November 29, 1972) was an American composer and arranger for music in animated films. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros., where he averaged one complete score each week, for 22 years.
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Carlos Delgado
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Carmen Electra
Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra, is an American glamour model, actress, television personality, singer, dancer and sex symbol. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game show Singled Out, on the TV series Baywatch, and dancing with the Pussycat Dolls, and has since had roles in the parody films Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie.
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Catherine Ndereba
Wincatherine Nyambura Ndereba (born July 21, 1972) is a world class Kenyan marathon runner. She won the Boston Marathon four times and silver medals in the Olympics in 2004 and 2008. Ndereba broke the women's marathon world record in 2001, running 2:18:47 at the Chicago Marathon. In 2008, Ndereba was described by a Chicago Tribune sportswriter as the greatest women's marathoner of all time.
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Chad I Ginsburg
Chad I Ginsburg (born April 24, 1972) is an American musician and music producer, best known for playing lead/rhythm guitar in the alternative rock band CKY.
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Chaney Kley
Chaney Kley (August 20, 1972 – July 24, 2007) was an American film and television actor.
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Chapman To
Chapman To Man-Chak is a Hong Kong actor, best known for specializing in comedic roles in films such as Infernal Affairs and Initial D.
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Charles Correll
Charles James Correll (February 2, 1890 - September 26, 1972) was an American radio comedian, best known for his work on the ''Amos 'n' Andy show with Freeman S. Gosden. Correll voiced the central character of Andy Brown, along with various supporting characters. Before teaming up with Gosden, Correll worked as a stenographer and a bricklayer. The two men met in Durham, North Carolina while working for the Joe Bren Producing Company. Both Correll and Freeman vacationed at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in the 1930s and would broadcast Amos 'n' Andy from there. From 1928 to 1934, the team never took a vacation away from their radio show. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Amos 'n' Andy'' on the air, the broadcast of March 19, 1958 was done by Correll and Gosden using their real voices and calling each other by their real names; this had never been done on the show before.
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Charlie Duke
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Charlie Haas
Charles "Charlie" Doyle Haas II (born March 27, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and former collegiate amateur wrestler best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment.
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Chen Yi (communist)
Chen Yi (; August 26, 1901 - January 6, 1972) was a Chinese communist military commander and politician.
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Chipper Jones
Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones, Jr. (born April 24, 1972, in DeLand, Florida) is a Major League baseball player for the National League's Atlanta Braves. Although initially a shortstop, he has spent most of his career as the starting third baseman for the Braves. In and , Jones primarily played left field, before returning to third base in 2004.
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Choky Ice
Choky Ice (born April 23, 1972) is a Hungarian pornographic actor, who worked as a model before entering the adult film industry in 1996. Since then he has starred in high budget movies such as Porn Wars Episode 2 and 3.
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Chris Candido
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Chris Grant
Christopher Lee "Chris" Grant (born 13 December 1972) is a former Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League, and a legend of the Western Bulldogs Football Club. He was born in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia.
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Claire Windsor
http://wn.com/Claire_Windsor
Clarence Earl Gideon
http://wn.com/Clarence_Earl_Gideon
Claudia Black
Claudia Lee Black (born 11 October 1972) is an Australian actress, known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in the science fiction television series Farscape and Vala Mal Doran in the science fiction series Stargate SG-1.
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Claudia Karvan
Claudia Karvan (born 19 May 1972, born in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actress popular for her roles in the television series The Secret Life of Us and Love My Way. She is also a producer and writer on Love My Way and played in the 2010 film Daybreakers as Audrey Bennett. She currently stars in the drama series Spirited.
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Claudia Pechstein
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Claudia Winkleman
Claudia Anne I. Winkleman (born 15 January 1972) is an English television presenter, radio personality and journalist.
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Clifford Irving
Clifford Michael Irving (born November 5, 1930) is an American author of novels and works of nonfiction, but best known for using forged handwritten letters to convince his publisher into accepting a fake "autobiography" of reclusive businessman Howard Hughes in the early 1970s. After Hughes denounced him and sued the publisher, Irving confessed the hoax and was subsequently sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but only served 17 months.
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Cole Youngblood
Cole Youngblood (sometimes credited as Kole Youngblood) is an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornography movies. Cole also appeared as Joe Di Santiago in Jean-Daniel Cadinot's French pornographic film "Coup de Soleil." While in the business, Cole also worked as a paramedic. His last film was made in 2000.
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Colin Charvis
Colin Charvis (born December 27, 1972) is a former captain of the Wales national rugby union team and also played for the British and Irish lions. A back row forward, Charvis was equally adept as a flanker or as the no. 8.
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Conchita Martínez
http://wn.com/Conchita_Martínez
Cory Lidle
http://wn.com/Cory_Lidle
Count of St Germain
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Craig Spearman
Craig Murray Spearman (born 4 July 1972 in Auckland) played 19 Tests and 51 One Day Internationals for New Zealand from 1995 - 2001.
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Cristina Scabbia
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Cristobal Balenciaga
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D'Lo Brown
Accie Conner (born October 22, 1973), better known by his ring name '''D'Lo Brown (also written D-Lo Brown'''), is an American professional wrestler. Arguably best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment, he is currently working as an agent for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
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Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American actor best remembered for his role as Eric "Hoss" Cartwright in the NBC western television blockbuster Bonanza.
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Dane Cook
Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18, 1972) is an American stand-up comedian and film actor. He has released five comedy albums: Harmful If Swallowed; Retaliation; '; '; and Isolated Incident. Retaliation became the highest charting comedy album in 28 years and went platinum. Cook performed an HBO special in the Fall of 2006, Vicious Circle, a straight-to-DVD special titled Rough Around The Edges (which is included in the album of the same name), and a Comedy Central special in 2009 titled Isolated Incident.
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Daniel Alfredsson
Daniel Alfredsson (born December 11, 1972) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player. He is the captain of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is considered a leader by example and has been compared to former Detroit Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman in his value to the Senators. A right winger with the Senators, Alfredsson usually plays on the first line, which was formerly nicknamed the 'CASH' or 'Pizza' line with centre Jason Spezza and left winger Dany Heatley, before Heatley's trade to the San Jose Sharks. He has traditionally been the fourth forward on the ice in the role of pointman on Ottawa's powerplay. He is one of the league's top two-way scorers, and he holds the Senators' franchise records for goals (375), assists (617), and points (992) with 1001 games played. He has played for Sweden internationally thirteen times, including the 2006 gold medal winning Olympic squad.
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Danny Whitten
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Darren Anderton
Darren Robert Anderton (born 3 March 1972 in Southampton) is a retired English footballer who spent most of his career with Tottenham Hotspur as a midfielder. He played 30 times for the England national football team, scoring 7 goals.
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Darren Hayes
Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is a UK based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes debuted in 1996 as the frontman and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden propelled them to superstardom. It spawned the singles "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", and the airplay number-one "Truly Madly Deeply". The duo followed the success of their debut album with Affirmation (1999), which also produced several hits such as "I Knew I Loved You", "The Animal Song" and "Crash and Burn". Savage Garden sold more than 23 million albums worldwide before parting ways in 2001.
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David Mark Berger
http://wn.com/David_Mark_Berger
Debra Stephenson
Debra Stephenson (born 4 June 1972 in Kingston upon Hull) is an English actress, comedian, impressionist and singer.
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Demir Demirkan
Demir Demirkan (born August 12, 1972 in Adana, Turkey) is a Turkish musician, Eurovision Song Contest winning composer, formerly guitarist for thrash metal band Mezarkabul. Demir Demirkan started his music life when he was 13 and played guitar with various groups in college. Demir Demirkan also wrote television jingles and composed soundtracks for television and films.
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Denis Žvegelj
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Deniz Gezmiş
http://wn.com/Deniz_Gezmiş
Derartu Tulu
Derartu Tulu (born March 21, 1972 in Bekoji, Arsi oromo, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian long distance track, road and marathon athlete.
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Derian Hatcher
Derian Hatcher (born June 4, 1972 in Sterling Heights, Michigan) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is the younger brother of former NHL player Kevin Hatcher.
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Dick Sargent
Dick Sargent (April 19, 1930 – July 8, 1994) was an American actor, notable as the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on the television series Bewitched. The actor took the name Dick Sargent from a Saturday Evening Post illustrator/artist of the same name.
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Dita Von Teese
Dita Von Teese (born September 28, 1972) is an American burlesque artist, model and actress.
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Dorothy Dalton
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Doug Russell
Doug Russell is the host of The Doug and Mike Show weekday mornings from 5a-9a CDT on WSSP in Milwaukee. Russell joined WSSP in January 2007 after leaving Sporting News Radio. When Russell first joined SNR in 2000, he anchored the Sporting News Flash on weeknights and weekends, while writing for SportingNews.Com. In March 2002, Russell co-hosted The Morning Show. Russell then hosted Sporting News Central PM edition.
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Drew Bledsoe
Drew McQueen Bledsoe (born February 14, 1972) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League, best known as the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots from 1993-2001. During the 1990s and early 2000s, he was perceived to be the face of the Patriots franchise. Bledsoe, a Pro Bowler, All-American for the Washington State Cougars and #1 overall draft pick in the 1993 NFL Draft, announced his retirement from the sport on April 11, 2007.
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Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972) is an American actor and former professional wrestler. He is also known by his former ring name The Rock and is occasionally credited as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
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Eby J. Jose
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Ed O'Bannon
'''Edward Charles O'Bannon, Jr.''' (born August 14, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is a retired American basketball player, who was a star power forward for the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, where he was known as "Ed-O", but had a less-than-illustrious career as a professional basketball player. He is the older brother of former Detroit Pistons guard Charles O'Bannon (with whom he shares the same first and middle names, in reverse order), who also played college basketball at UCLA.
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Eddy Merckx
Cyclist
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Edmund Wilson
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Edward Earle
Edward Earle (16 July 1882 – 15 December 1972) was a Canadian film actor. He appeared in almost 400 films between 1914 and 1956.
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Edward VIII
#redirectEdward VIII of the United Kingdom
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Eliezer Halfin
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Elissa (singer)
Elissar Zakaria Khoury () (born October 27, 1972 in Deir el Ahmar, Lebanon), known as Elissa () is a Lebanese singer with multiple Arabic and International awards. She is one of the most well-known female singers in the Arab world and considered as one of the best selling female artists in the Middle East.
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Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley (born July 28, 1972) is an American television, movie, and theatre actress. Her most notable roles were in the television series Saved by the Bell, as brainy feminist Jessie Spano, and the 1995 Paul Verhoeven movie Showgirls, as exotic dancer Nomi Malone.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
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Elizabeth Montgomery
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Elvis Stojko
Elvis Stojko, MSC, MSM (born March 22, 1972) is a Canadian figure skating world champion.
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Emerson Fittipaldi
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition.
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Eric Dane
Eric William Dane (born November 9, 1972) is an American actor. After appearing in television roles throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he became known for playing Dr. Mark Sloan on the series ''Grey's Anatomy, and has recently branched into film, co-starring in Marley & Me and Valentine's Day''.
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Etan Patz
http://wn.com/Etan_Patz
Eugene Cernan
Eugene "Gene" Andrew Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a retired United States Navy officer and a former NASA astronaut and engineer. He has been into space three times: as co-pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966; as lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969; and as commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972. In that final lunar landing mission, Cernan became "the last man on the moon" since he was the last to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module during its third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA). (While crewmate Harrison Schmitt was "the last man to arrive on the moon" as Cernan left the module first). Cernan was also a backup crew member for the Gemini 12, Apollo 7 and Apollo 14 missions.
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Evhen Tsybulenko
Evhen Tsybulenko () (born 21 October 1972 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is a Professor (2005) and Chair of International and Comparative Law department at Tallinn Law School of Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), founder and first Head of TUT Human Rights Centre. He is also an adjunct (visiting) professor and Senior visiting mentor of Joint Command and General Staff Course (JCGSC) at Baltic Defence College.
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Ewen Bremner
Ewen Bremner (born 23 January 1972) is a Scottish actor.
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Ezra Hendrickson
Ezra Hendrickson (born January 16, 1972 in Layou, St. Vincent) is a retired Vincentian footballer. He is currently an assistant coach with Seattle Sounders FC.
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Ezra Pound
http://wn.com/Ezra_Pound
Ferde Grofé
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Ferdinand Marcos
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Ferenc Gyurcsány
http://wn.com/Ferenc_Gyurcsány
Ferit Melen
Ferit Sadi Melen (1906, Van - September 3, 1988, Ankara) was a Turkish civil servant, politician and Prime Minister of Turkey.
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Fernando Amorsolo
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Francis Chichester
Sir Francis Charles Chichester KBE (17 September 1901 – 26 August 1972), aviator and sailor, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day overall.
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Frank Tashlin
http://wn.com/Frank_Tashlin
Françoise Yip
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Frode Estil
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Gene Cernan
http://wn.com/Gene_Cernan
George H. Plympton
: Not to be confused with George Plimpton
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George McGovern
George Stanley McGovern (born July 19, 1922) is a historian, former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to Richard Nixon. As a decorated World War II combat veteran, McGovern was known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
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George Sanders
http://wn.com/George_Sanders
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S. president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. A 1972 assassination attempt left him paralyzed; he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He is best known for his Southern populist, pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he renounced later in life.
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Georges Pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (; 5 July 1911 2 April 1974) was a French politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974.
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Gerald M. Edelman
http://wn.com/Gerald_M_Edelman
Geri Halliwell
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Gil Hodges
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Gino Conforti
Gino Conforti (born January 30, 1932) is an American actor best known for his television roles.
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Gisela Richter
Gisela Marie Augusta Richter (August 14, 1882 – December 24, 1972), was a classical archaeologist and art historian.
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Gretchen Mol
Gretchen Mol (born November 8, 1972) is an American actress.
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Gustav Holst
Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodor von Holst, 21 September 187425 May 1934) was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (; born September 27, 1972) is an American actress.
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H. R. Haldeman
Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman (publicly known as H. R. Haldeman; October 27, 1926–November 12, 1993) was an American political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and for his role in events leading to the Watergate burglaries and the Watergate scandal — for which he was found guilty of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. He was imprisoned for 18 months for his crimes. In the popular press, Haldeman was sometimes erroneously identified as "H. Robert Haldeman." In the White House, he had several nicknames, such as "The Brush" for his distinctive flattop haircut, "the President's son-of-a-bitch," for his rigid ways and "the Berlin Wall" as a play on his German-American background.
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Hale Boggs
Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr. (February 15, 1914 – undetermined; presumably October 16, 1972, not declared dead until January 3, 1973) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. He was the House Majority Leader.
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Hans Erich Apostel
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Harlow Shapley
Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American astronomer.
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Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, a former NASA astronaut, University Professor and a U.S. Senator for one term.
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Harry S. Truman
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Harry Truman
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Hassan II of Morocco
http://wn.com/Hassan_II_of_Morocco
Havergal Brian
William "Havergal" Brian (29 January 187628 November 1972), was a British classical composer.
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Heinrich Böll
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Helen Traubel
http://wn.com/Helen_Traubel
Hendrick Ramaala
Hendrik Ramaala (born 2 February 1972 in GaMalepo, Pietersburg) is a South African long-distance runner, the winner of the 2004 New York City Marathon and 2004 Mumbai Marathon. He also has two silver medals from the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 1998 and 1999. In 2006 he also won the men's Great North Run. He is a two-time national champion in the 5.000 metres.
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Henri Coandă
http://wn.com/Henri_Coandă
Henry de Montherlant
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (; born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought out by many following presidents.
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Herbert Boyer
Herbert W. Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is a recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, and co-recipient of the 1996 Lemelson-MIT Prize and a co-founder of Genentech. He served as Vice President of Genentech from 1976 through his retirement in 1991.
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Hermann Maier
Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972, in Altenmarkt im Pongau) is a former Austrian alpine ski racer.
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Hisashi (musician)
http://wn.com/Hisashi_(musician)
Holger Meins
Holger Klaus Meins (born October 26, 1941 in Hamburg - November 9, 1974) was a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s and died on hunger strike in prison.
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Howard Hughes
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Hubert Lamb
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Idi Amin
http://wn.com/Idi_Amin
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky (May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972), born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (, ), was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914.
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Il Mi Chung
http://wn.com/Il_Mi_Chung
Imelda Marcos
Imelda R. Marcos (born Imelda Remedios Visitacion Romualdez on July 2, 1929) is a Filipino politician and wife of 10th Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Upon the ascension of her husband to political power, she held various positions to the government until 1986. She is the first politician elected as member of the Philippine legislature in three geographical locations (Manila, Leyte, Ilocos Norte). In 2010, she was elected to become a member of the House of Representatives to represent Ilocos Norte's second district. She is sometimes referred to as the Steel Butterfly or the Iron Butterfly. She is often remembered for symbols of the extravagance of her husband's political reign such as her collection of 2700 pairs of shoes.
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Infernus
Roger Tiegs (born on June 18, 1972), better known by his stage name, Infernus, is a Norwegian black metal musician and a Satanist. He is the sole founding member and chief ideologist of the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth, which was formed in 1992, as well as the founder and head of Forces of Satan Records. He is mainly a guitarist, but has also participated as bassist, drummer and vocalist on several recordings released both by Gorgoroth and other bands. For the bulk of Gorgoroth's existence he has been the primary song-writer, and much of his compositional skills, though rooted deep in black metal, hearken a very classical feel (many songs off the albums Antichrist and Under the Sign of Hell showcase these musical traits).
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Irene van Dyk
Irene van Dyk, MNZM (born 21 June 1972 in Vereeniging, South Africa) is one of the world's best-known netball players and the most capped player of all time.
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Isabel Jewell
Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress most active in the 1930s and early 1940s.
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Ismail Yasin
Ismail Yasin (also credited as Ismail Yasseen; ) (September 15, 1915-May 24, 1972) was an Egyptian comedian/actor. He is famous for a series of films with his name in the title.
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Ivy Queen
Ivy Queen (born March 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican-American Latin Grammy nominated reggaeton composer and singer. She is most commonly known as "La Reina del Reggaeton" (The Queen of Reggaeton). She is among the few female artists in the reggaeton genre.
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Iztok Čop
http://wn.com/Iztok_Čop
J. Arthur Rank
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J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
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Jaak Mae
Jaak Mae (born February 25, 1972) is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 1994. He won a bronze in the 15km event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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Jackie Robinson
http://wn.com/Jackie_Robinson
Jakob Martin Strid
Jakob Martin Strid (born 1972) is a Danish cartoonist, who is known throughout Denmark for his successful series Strid in the Danish newspaper Politiken.
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James Cracknell
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James F. Byrnes
James Francis Byrnes (May 2, 1882 April 9, 1972) was an American statesman from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives (1911–1925), as a Senator (1931–1941), as Justice of the Supreme Court (1941–1942), as Secretary of State (1945–1947), and as the 104th Governor of South Carolina (1951–1955). He therefore became one of very few politicians to be active in all three branches of the federal government while also being active in state government. He was also a confidant of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was one of the most powerful men in American domestic and foreign policy in the mid-1940s.
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Jan-Carl Raspe
Jan-Carl Raspe (July 24, 1944 - October 18, 1977) was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction.
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Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. After 15 years of retirement, she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law followed by Georgia Rule two years later. She also produced and starred in several exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995.
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Janet Munro
Janet Munro (28 September 1934 – 6 December 1972) was a British actress.
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Janne Blomqvist
http://wn.com/Janne_Blomqvist
Jaromír Jágr
http://wn.com/Jaromír_Jágr
Jean Dujardin
Jean Dujardin (born 19 June 1972 in Rueil-Malmaison) is a French actor and comedian.
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Jean McConville
Jean McConville (1934 - December 1972) was a woman from Northern Ireland who, in 1972, was abducted and killed by the Provisional IRA, who subsequently claimed that she had been passing information on republican activities to British security forces.
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Jean-Bédel Bokassa
http://wn.com/Jean-Bédel_Bokassa
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as the President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865.
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Jennie Garth
Jennifer Eve "Jennie" Garth (born April 3, 1972) is an American actress, best known for starring in the prominent role of Kelly Taylor throughout the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. She is also known for starring as Valerie Tyler in What I Like About You.
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Jenny Berggren
Jenny Cecilia Berggren (born 19 May 1972) is a Swedish vocalist and former lead singer in Swedish pop band Ace of Base. As of 2010, she is also embarking on a solo career with her debut album My Story, released October 13, 2010.
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Jenny McCarthy
Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy (born November 1, 1972) is an American adult model, comedian, actress, author and activist. She began her career as a Playboy magazine model in 1993, before launching a television and film acting career. Most recently, she has written books about parenting, and has become an activist promoting controversial claims that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy is effective against autism.
http://wn.com/Jenny_McCarthy
Jerome Bettis
Jerome Abram "The Bus" Bettis (born February 16, 1972) is a retired American football halfback for the NFL's Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. Bettis is considered one of the best big backs ever due to his amazing footwork and sheer power, and is currently fifth on the National Football League's all-time rushing list. Bettis weighed 250 pounds at 5'10". He retired in 2006 after a Super Bowl victory at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, his place of birth. Bettis attended Mackenzie High School in Detroit, and the University of Notre Dame.
http://wn.com/Jerome_Bettis
Jessie Royce Landis
Jessie Royce Landis (November 25, 1896 - February 2, 1972) was an American actress.
http://wn.com/Jessie_Royce_Landis
Jesus Christ
http://wn.com/Jesus_Christ
Jim Druckenmiller
James David Druckenmiller, Jr. (born September 19, 1972 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is a retired American football quarterback.
http://wn.com/Jim_Druckenmiller
Jimmy Carr
James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr (born 15 September 1972) is a British and Irish comedian and Humourist, known for his deadpan delivery and dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television.
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Jimmy Wallington
James "Jimmy" Wallington (September 15, 1907 - December 22, 1972) was an American radio personality.
http://wn.com/Jimmy_Wallington
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.
http://wn.com/Joan_Baez
Joe Calzaghe
Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE (born 23 March 1972) is a former Welsh professional boxer. He was rated by Ring magazine as pound for pound one of the top 10 boxers in the world and was rated as the second best pound for pound boxer on the planet by the BBC before he retired. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record, becoming only the fourth European boxer, after Terry Marsh, Michael Loewe and Sven Ottke, to retire as an undefeated world champion. After his retirement, Ricky Hatton described him as "the best British fighter we've ever had".
http://wn.com/Joe_Calzaghe
Joe Horn
Joseph Horn (born January 16, 1972 in ) is a retired American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and also played for the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at Itawamba Community College.
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John Bardeen
http://wn.com/John_Bardeen
John Berryman
http://wn.com/John_Berryman
John Cho
http://wn.com/John_Cho
John Grierson
John Grierson (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" to describe a non-fiction film.
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John Heidenreich
http://wn.com/John_Heidenreich
John Hicks
http://wn.com/John_Hicks
John Litel
http://wn.com/John_Litel
John Wojtowicz
John Stanley Wojtowicz (March 9, 1945 - January 2, 2006) was an American bank robber whose story inspired the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
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Joi Lansing
Joi Lansing (April 6, 1929 - August 7, 1972) was a model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer.
http://wn.com/Joi_Lansing
Jon Kitna
Jon K. Kitna (born September 21, 1972 in ) is an American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1997. He played college football at Central Washington.
http://wn.com/Jon_Kitna
Jonathan Coachman
Jonathan William Coachman (born August 12, 1972), also known as "The Coach", is a former professional wrestling color commentator. He is also a former college basketball player, and football play-by-play announcer. He is best known for his work with World Wrestling Entertainment, where he spent nine years as a commentator, interviewer, and occasional wrestler.
http://wn.com/Jonathan_Coachman
Jonathon Prandi
Jonathon Prandi (born August 11, 1972) is an American male fashion model, actor and IT-consultant. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and grew up in Miami, Florida. Jonathon Prandi has been modeling for fashion shows, catalogs and magazines and has appeared in training videos and fitness- and training magazines such as ''Men's Health, Men's Workout, and Exercise for Men''.
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Jos Verstappen
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Josh Duhamel
http://wn.com/Josh_Duhamel
José Limón
http://wn.com/José_Limón
Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972), known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.
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Judith Godrèche
http://wn.com/Judith_Godrèche
Jules Jordan
Jules Jordan (born Ashley Gasper) is an American pornographic movie director, actor, and producer. Originally his movies were distributed under John Stagliano's adult video company, Evil Angel. In early 2006 his company Jules Jordan Video began handling its own distribution. His official website was launched in August 2007 by Premium Multimedia.
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Julie Benz
Julie M. Benz (May 1, 1972) is a American actress, best known for her role as Rita Morgan on Dexter, for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. She currently stars in the series, No Ordinary Family. Among her previous well-known roles was Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ''Angel.
http://wn.com/Julie_Benz
Jun Lana
Jun Lana (born October 10, 1972), born as Rodolfo R. Lana, Jr., is a Filipino playwright and two-time FAMAS award-winning screenwriter. The winner of 11 Palanca Awards for Literature, he became the youngest member of the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Junichi Suwabe
http://wn.com/Junichi_Suwabe
Junko Takeuchi
http://wn.com/Junko_Takeuchi
Karel Poborsky
http://wn.com/Karel_Poborsky
Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban (born June 7, 1972) is an actor from New Zealand.
http://wn.com/Karl_Urban
Katja Seizinger
Katja Seizinger (born May 10, 1972, in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia), a former alpine ski racer, is the most successful alpine skier from Germany. She won three Olympic gold and two bronze medals, and won the World Cup championship three times (two in overall standings). She was also voted as Germany's sportswoman of the year three times over.
http://wn.com/Katja_Seizinger
Kehat Shorr
Kehat Shorr (1919 - September 6, 1972) was the shooting coach for the 1972 Israeli Olympic team. He was one of the 11 members of Israel's Olympic team who were taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Black September operatives at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was seen once during the hostage crisis, standing next to fellow coach Andre Spitzer at a second-floor window of their besieged building while terrorists trained guns on the pair.
http://wn.com/Kehat_Shorr
Keith Wood
Keith Gerard Mallinson Wood (born 27 January 1972, Killaloe, County Clare) and educated at St Munchin's College, Limerick is a former international rugby union footballer who played for Ireland, the Lions, Garryowen, Harlequins and Munster.
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Kelly Richardson
Kelly Richardson (born August 2, 1972 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada) is an artist whose media-based practice focuses on the idea of mixed realities; part 'real', part fantasy.
http://wn.com/Kelly_Richardson
Kelly Slater
http://wn.com/Kelly_Slater
Ken Hirai
is a Japanese R&B; and pop singer. Since his debut, Hirai has worked as a model, actor, composer, lyricist, singer, and spokesperson.
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Ken Ryker
Ken Ryker, born August 17, 1972, in Jeonju, Korea, is the stage name of an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay, straight and bisexual pornographic movies. He was raised in Texas, but now resides in California.
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Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51.
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Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911 - January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists, the Beats, and Surrealists. Patchen's ambitious body of work also foreshadowed literary art-forms ranging from reading poetry to jazz accompaniment to his late experiments with visual poetry (which he called his "picture poems").
http://wn.com/Kenneth_Patchen
Kerry Collins
Kerry Michael Collins (born December 30, 1972 in ) is an American football quarterback for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers with the fifth overall pick of the 1995 NFL Draft (first draft choice in franchise history). He is currently the backup to Vince Young.
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Kevin Plank
Kevin A. Plank (born August 13, 1972, Kensington, Maryland) is an American entrepreneur and businessperson best known for founding Under Armour, a sports apparel brand.
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Kim Ji-soo
Kim Ji-soo (born Yang Sung-yoon, 24 October 1972) is a South Korean actress.
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Kim Joo-hyuk
Kim Joo-hyuk (born 3 October 1972) is a South Korean actor.
http://wn.com/Kim_Joo-hyuk
Kim Myung-min
http://wn.com/Kim_Myung-min
King Edward VIII
http://wn.com/King_Edward_VIII
King of Jordan
http://wn.com/King_of_Jordan
Klaus Schnellenkamp
http://wn.com/Klaus_Schnellenkamp
Klára Dobrev
http://wn.com/Klára_Dobrev
Koriki Chōshū
http://wn.com/Koriki_Chōshū
Kurt Waldheim
http://wn.com/Kurt_Waldheim
Kwame Nkrumah
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 - 27 April 1972) was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism. He was the first President of Ghana, the first Prime Minister of Ghana and a founding member of the Organization of African Unity. Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966, and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.
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Lance Reventlow
Lance Reventlow, born Lawrence Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow (February 24, 1936 – July 24, 1972) was a wealthy playboy, entrepreneur, and racing driver.
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Lane Chandler
http://wn.com/Lane_Chandler
Laszlo Toth
http://wn.com/Laszlo_Toth
Laurie Holden
Heather Laurie Holden (born December 17, 1972) is a Canadian-American actress and human rights activist.
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Le Huynh Đuc
http://wn.com/Le_Huynh_Đuc
Leo G. Carroll
Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English-born actor. He was best known for his roles in several Hitchcock films and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and "Topper".
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Leo Ku
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Leon Neil Cooper
http://wn.com/Leon_Neil_Cooper
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (, ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He was probably best known to the public as the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, for conducting concerts by many of the world's leading orchestras, and for writing the music for West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town, and On the Town. Bernstein was the first classical music conductor to make numerous television appearances between 1954 and 1989. He had a formidable piano technique and as a composer also wrote symphonies and other concert music. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
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Leonid Brezhnev
http://wn.com/Leonid_Brezhnev
Lester B. Pearson
http://wn.com/Lester_B_Pearson
Lisa Leslie
Lisa Deshaun Leslie-Lockwood (born July 7, 1972, in Gardena, California) is a retired American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner. The number seven pick in the 1997 inaugural WNBA draft, she followed a superb career at the University of Southern California with seven WNBA All-Star appearances and two WNBA championships over the course of eleven seasons with the Los Angeles Sparks, before retiring in 2009. Leslie, a 6'5" center, is the first player to dunk in a WNBA game. She was considered a pioneer and cornerstone of the league during her WNBA career.
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Louella Parsons
Louella Parsons (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) was an American gossip columnist who, for many years, was an influential arbiter of Hollywood mores, often feared and hated by the individuals, mostly actors, whose careers she could negatively impact via her radio show and newspaper columns.
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Louis Leakey
http://wn.com/Louis_Leakey
Luís Figo
http://wn.com/Luís_Figo
M. C. Escher
http://wn.com/M_C_Escher
Malky Mackay
Malcolm George "Malky" Mackay (born 19 February 1972, in Bellshill) is a Scottish former footballer, who played as a central defender. During his career Mackay played for Queen's Park, Celtic, Norwich City, West Ham and finally Watford, where he is currently employed as manager. He also played five times for the Scottish national football team.
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Manny Ramírez
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (; December 26, 1893 September 9, 1976) was a Han Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theoretical contribution to Marxism-Leninism, military strategies, and his brand of Communist policies are now collectively known as Maoism.
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Marcel Wouda
Marcel Reinier Wouda (born 23 January 1972 in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant) is a former Dutch swimmer, who became Holland's first world champion when he won the world title in the 200 m individual medley at the FINA 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia. He is currently the coach of Olympic Champions Maarten van der Weijden and Hinkelien Schreuder at the Nationaal Zweminstituut Eindhoven.
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Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Rutherford DBE (May 11, 1892 – May 22, 1972) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. She is best-known for her 1960s performances as Miss Marple in several films based loosely on Agatha Christie's novels.
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Margaret Webster
Margaret Webster (March 15, 1905 - November 13, 1972) was an American-born theater actress, producer and director. Through her parents, she held dual USA/UK citizenship.
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She is the second female laureate in physics, after Marie Curie.
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Marilyn Maxwell
Marilyn Maxwell (August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972), born Marvel Marilyn Maxwell, was an American actress and entertainer.
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Mariusz Czerkawski
http://wn.com/Mariusz_Czerkawski
Mark Gasser
Mark Gasser (; born 1972 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is a British concert pianist.
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Mark Owen
Mark Owen (born 27 January 1972) is an English singer-songwriter. He is a member of pop-rock band Take That. The band were successful during the early 1990s and have enjoyed more success since their reunion in 2005.
http://wn.com/Mark_Owen
Mark Slavin
Mark Slavin (January 31, 1954 – September 6, 1972), was an Israeli Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and victim of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
http://wn.com/Mark_Slavin
Martin Bormann
http://wn.com/Martin_Bormann
Martin Brodeur
Martin Pierre Brodeur (; born May 6, 1972) is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the New Jersey Devils. In his 19-year tenure with the Devils, he has led the team to three Stanley Cup championships and has taken them to the playoffs every year but one. Brodeur has won two Olympic gold medals with Team Canada in the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, as well as several other medals with the team in other international competitions.
http://wn.com/Martin_Brodeur
Martin Dies, Jr.
Martin Dies, Jr. (November 5, 1900 – November 14, 1972) was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. His father, Martin Dies, was also a member of the United States House of Representatives.
http://wn.com/Martin_Dies_Jr
Martiros Saryan
Martiros Saryan () ( — 5 May 1972) was an Armenian painter.
http://wn.com/Martiros_Saryan
Marvin Harrison
Marvin Daniel Harrison (born August 25, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft. He played college football at Syracuse.
http://wn.com/Marvin_Harrison
Masakazu Morita
http://wn.com/Masakazu_Morita
Matt Bloom
Matthew Jason "Matt" Bloom (born November 14, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, currently wrestling for New Japan Pro Wrestling under the ring name Giant Bernard. He is currently one half of the IWGP Tag Team Champions with partner Karl Anderson. Between 1997 and 2004, Bloom wrestled for World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring names Prince Albert, Albert, and A-Train.
http://wn.com/Matt_Bloom
Matt Brandstein
Matt Brandstein (born January 29, 1972) is an American writer and occasional Bollywood film actor. He is most known for his writing of the popular Jewish children's comic book series Mendy and the Golem. Brandstein often employs the use of his Hebrew name Moshe in honor of his Jewish heritage.
http://wn.com/Matt_Brandstein
Matt Dawson
http://wn.com/Matt_Dawson
Matt Kenseth
Matthew Roy "Matt" Kenseth (born March 10, 1972) is an American stock car driver. Matt currently drives the #17 Crown Royal Ford in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for Roush Fenway Racing. He is a Daytona 500 champion, having won a rain-shortened race in 2009, the first Daytona 500 win for the Roush Fenway Racing team. Kenseth followed that up with a win at California Speedway moving his win list up to 18 in Sprint Cup.
http://wn.com/Matt_Kenseth
Matthias Ettrich
Matthias Ettrich (born 14 June 1972 in Bietigheim-Bissingen, southern Germany) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to the KDE and LyX projects.
http://wn.com/Matthias_Ettrich
Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, singer, and popular vaudeville entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", "Valentine", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls". His trademark was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with his tuxedo (dinner jacket).
http://wn.com/Maurice_Chevalier
Max Fleischer
http://wn.com/Max_Fleischer
Max Theiler
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 – August 11, 1972) was a South African/American virologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever.
http://wn.com/Max_Theiler
Maya Rudolph
Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress and singer best known for her comedic roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2000-2007. She most recently appeared in the 2010 films Grown Ups and MacGruber.
http://wn.com/Maya_Rudolph
Mechele Linehan
http://wn.com/Mechele_Linehan
Mia Hamm
Football biography 2
http://wn.com/Mia_Hamm
Michael Chang
Michael Te-Pei Chang (; born February 22, 1972, in Hoboken, New Jersey) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He is best remembered for becoming the youngest-ever male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17.
http://wn.com/Michael_Chang
Michelangelo
http://wn.com/Michelangelo
Miguel Del Toro
http://wn.com/Miguel_Del_Toro
Mike Bucci
Michael "Mike" Bucci (born June 5, 1972) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. Bucci is probably best known for his appearances in Extreme Championship Wrestling as Nova, Super Nova and "Hollywood" Nova and World Wrestling Entertainment as Simon Dean.
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Mike Dirnt
Mike Dirnt (born May 4, 1972 as Michael Ryan Pritchard) is an American musician who is currently the bassist and backing vocalist for the American rock band Green Day. While at school, he would play "air-bass." While pretending to pluck the strings, he made the noise, "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt," so his schoolmates started to call him "Mike Dirnt".
http://wn.com/Mike_Dirnt
Mike Lieberthal
http://wn.com/Mike_Lieberthal
Mike Smith (actor)
Mike Smith (born August 27, 1972) is a Canadian actor and musician, most famous for playing Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys.
http://wn.com/Mike_Smith_(actor)
Mikis Theodorakis
Mikis (Michael) Theodorakis () (b. July 29, 1925, Greek island of Chios) is one of the most popular Greek song-writers & composers. He is particularly well known for his songs and for his scores in the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973).
http://wn.com/Mikis_Theodorakis
Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen (b. October 6 1898, Menominee, Michigan–d. October 28 1972, Los Angeles) was an American director, art director, and costume designer. He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments.
http://wn.com/Mitchell_Leisen
Morgan (singer)
Marco Castoldi better known by his stage name Morgan (born in Milano, Italy on 23 December 1972) is an Italian singer, musician and multi-instrumentalist. He is also a judge for three years in the Italian version of The X Factor winning the first three series through acts he mentored, Aram Quartet (series 1 - 2008), Matteo Becucci (series 2 - 2008-9) and Marco Mengoni (in series 3 - 2009).
http://wn.com/Morgan_(singer)
Moshe Weinberg
Moshe Weinberg (sometimes Weinberger) (1939 - September 5, 1972) was the coach of the Israeli international wrestling team as well as being the coach of Hapoel Tel Aviv. He was the Israeli youth champion in wrestling and also the adult champion for a period of 8 years. He began his career in Hapoel Haifa, later becoming a certified coach at Wingate Institute.
http://wn.com/Moshe_Weinberg
Muttiah Muralitharan
http://wn.com/Muttiah_Muralitharan
Mónica Santa María
http://wn.com/Mónica_Santa_María
Naoko Takahashi
is a Japanese long-distance runner competing mainly in the marathon. She is widely known for her victory in the women's marathon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, a performance that stands as the current Olympic record. At the 2001 Berlin Marathon, Takahashi became the first woman to break the 2 hour 20 minute barrier while setting a world record. That record was broken just one week later by Catherine Ndereba. In the women's marathon event (and not counting multiple records set by the same athlete), she still holds the 7th best time and the 3rd best Japanese marathon performance behind Yoko Shibui (2:19:41) and Mizuki Noguchi (2:19:10). She is related to former Morning Musume leader Hitomi Yoshizawa. She announced her retirement in October 2008.
http://wn.com/Naoko_Takahashi
Natasha Kaplinsky
Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972 in Brighton) is an English newsreader, currently employed by Five.
http://wn.com/Natasha_Kaplinsky
Nathan Buckley
Nathan Charles Buckley (born 26 July 1972) is a former professional Australian rules football player, commentator and coach, best known as for his time as captain of the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.
http://wn.com/Nathan_Buckley
Nawal Al Zoghbi
http://wn.com/Nawal_Al_Zoghbi
Nelson Frazier, Jr.
Nelson Frazier, Jr. (born February 14, 1972) is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring names Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V, and King V. He is best known for his work with (the) World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E). He is currently signed with All Japan Pro Wrestling.
http://wn.com/Nelson_Frazier_Jr
Nicole Eggert
Nicole Elizabeth Eggert (born January 13, 1972) is an American actress. Notable roles include Jamie Powell in the television series Charles in Charge and Summer Quinn in the TV Series Baywatch. She was most recently a contestant on the VH1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club.
http://wn.com/Nicole_Eggert
Nolan Bushnell
http://wn.com/Nolan_Bushnell
Norbert Rózsa
swimmer
http://wn.com/Norbert_Rózsa
Olof Palme
http://wn.com/Olof_Palme
Os du Randt
Jacobus Petrus du Randt, better known as Os du Randt (born 8 September 1972 in Elliot, South Africa), is a former South African rugby union who retired as the most-capped forward in the history of the Springboks (a record since surpassed by current Springboks John Smit and Victor Matfield). For most of his career, he played in the domestic Currie Cup for the Free State Cheetahs, though he spent one season with the Blue Bulls. In Super Rugby, he represented the Free State Cheetahs when South Africa sent its top Currie Cup teams to the competition instead of franchised sides, later represented the Cats franchise (now known as the Lions), spent one season with the Bulls before returning to the Cats, and still later played for the Vodacom Cheetahs. He ended his career as one of the last remaining international-level players from the amateur era of the sport and the last active member of the 1995 World Cup-winning squad. His final match was the 2007 Rugby World Cup final, which the Springboks won, with du Randt playing the entire 80 minutes.
http://wn.com/Os_du_Randt
Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.
http://wn.com/Oscar_Levant
Pae Gil-Su
Pae Gil-Su (, also written Pae Kil Su, born March 4, 1972) is a North Korean gymnast.
http://wn.com/Pae_Gil-Su
Paige Hemmis
Paige Hemmis (born March 17, 1972 in Wisconsin, United States) is an American television personality, particularly as a host of the series .
http://wn.com/Paige_Hemmis
Patrick Rafter
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Paul Adcock
Paul Malcolm Adcock (born 2 May 1972) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a forward.
http://wn.com/Paul_Adcock
Paul Berg
Paul Berg (born on June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1943, received his B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State University in 1948 and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1952. He is a member of the Beta Sigma Rho fraternity (now Beta Sigma Beta). In 1980 he shared half of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the team of Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. All three were recognized for their important contributions to basic research in nucleic acids. His studies as a postgraduate involved the use of radioisotope tracers in intermediary metabolism. This resulted in the understanding of how foodstuffs are converted to cellular materials, through the use of isotopic carbons or heavy nitrogen atoms. Paul Berg's doctorate paper is now known as the conversion of formic acid, formaldehyde and methanol to fully reduced states of methyl groups in methionine. He was also one of the first to demonstrate that folic acid and B12 cofactors had roles in the processes mentioned.
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Paul Hausser
http://wn.com/Paul_Hausser
Pavel Kotla
Pavel Kotla (born 5 June 1972, Szczecin, Poland) is a Polish conductor. Privately son of Ryszard Kotla.
http://wn.com/Pavel_Kotla
Peter O'Toole
'''Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole' (born 2 August 1932) is an Irish actor of stage and screen who achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia''. He went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most competitive Academy Award acting nominations without a win. He has won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA, an Emmy and was the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in 2003 for his body of work.
http://wn.com/Peter_O'Toole
Pierre Brasseur
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor.
http://wn.com/Pierre_Brasseur
Qu Yunxia
Qu Yunxia (; born 25 December 1972) is a Chinese Olympic athlete who specialized in the 1500 metres.
http://wn.com/Qu_Yunxia
R. Sargent Shriver
http://wn.com/R_Sargent_Shriver
Radosław Majdan
http://wn.com/Radosław_Majdan
Ralph Craig
Ralph Cook Craig (June 21, 1889 – July 21, 1972) was an American athlete, winner of the sprint double at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
http://wn.com/Ralph_Craig
Rebecca Romijn
http://wn.com/Rebecca_Romijn
Reginald Owen
Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was a English character actor known for playing in many film roles in British and American movies and later in television programs. He was born as John Reginald Owen in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England.
http://wn.com/Reginald_Owen
Richard Chanfray
Richard Chanfray (Lyon, 1940 - Saint Tropez, July 14, 1983) was a French public figure in the 1970s. He claimed to be the Comte de Saint-Germain and appeared in numerous European television shows claiming to transmute lead into gold.
http://wn.com/Richard_Chanfray
Richard Chelimo
Richard Chelimo (24 February 1972 – 15 August 2001) was a Kenyan athlete, and a former world and world junior record holder over 10,000 m. However, he is best known as the silver medallist in the controversial 10,000 m at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
http://wn.com/Richard_Chelimo
Richard M. Nixon
http://wn.com/Richard_M_Nixon
Richard McCoy, Jr.
Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr. (December 7, 1942 – November 10, 1974) was an American aircraft hijacker.
http://wn.com/Richard_McCoy_Jr
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974, having formerly been the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was the only President to resign the office as well as the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
http://wn.com/Richard_Nixon
Rio Tahara
http://wn.com/Rio_Tahara
Rivaldo
http://wn.com/Rivaldo
Robbie McEwen
Robbie McEwen (born June 24, 1972 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer, for the Katusha team on the UCI ProTour, specializing in sprint finishes. As a triple winner of the Tour de France's green jersey sprinters' classification, at his peak he was considered one of the fastest sprinters in the world.
http://wn.com/Robbie_McEwen
Robert Casadesus
Robert Casadesus (April 7, 1899 in Paris – September 19, 1972 in Paris) was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus.
http://wn.com/Robert_Casadesus
Robert E. Dolan
Robert Emmett "Bobby" Dolan (August 3, 1908 – September 26, 1972) was a Broadway conductor, composer and arranger beginning in the 1920s. He moved on to radio in the 1930s, and then went to Hollywood in the early 1940s as a musical director for Paramount. He scored, arranged, and conducted many musical and dramatic films in the 1940s and 1950s and produced three musicals. At the end of his career, he returned to the stage – the place where he began.
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Robert E. Lee
http://wn.com/Robert_E_Lee
Robert Webb (actor)
Robert Webb (born 29 September 1972) is a British actor, comedian and writer, and one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell.
http://wn.com/Robert_Webb_(actor)
Roberto Clemente
http://wn.com/Roberto_Clemente
Rochelle Hudson
http://wn.com/Rochelle_Hudson
Rodney Harrison
Rodney Scott Harrison (born December 15, 1972 in ) is a retired American football safety. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the fifth round of the 1994 NFL Draft, after playing college football at Western Illinois.
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Rodney R. Porter
http://wn.com/Rodney_R_Porter
Roman Genn
Roman Genn (born May 17, 1972, Moscow) is an American artist. He is most well known for his illustrations for the conservative magazine National Review, of which he is a contributing editor. Genn grew up in Moscow and moved to the United States in 1991. While living in the USSR he was repeatedly arrested for publicly exhibiting anti-government caricatures.
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Romi Park
http://wn.com/Romi_Park
Ron Ziegler
Ronald Louis "Ron" Ziegler (May 12, 1939 – February 10, 2003) was White House Press Secretary and Assistant to the President during United States President Richard Nixon's administration.
http://wn.com/Ron_Ziegler
Ronald Cheng
Ronald Cheng Chung-Kei is a Hong Kong cantopop singer and movie actor.
http://wn.com/Ronald_Cheng
Ruben Bagger
http://wn.com/Ruben_Bagger
Rubens Barrichello
http://wn.com/Rubens_Barrichello
Salah Hissou
Salah Hissou () (born January 16, 1972 in Ait Taghia) is a long-distance runner from Morocco, who won the gold medal over 5000 m at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville. With 26:38.08 he also set a world record over 10,000 m in Brussels in 1996 and won a bronze medal over 10,000 m at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
http://wn.com/Salah_Hissou
Sally Priesand
Sally Jane Priesand (born June 27, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio) is America's first ordained female rabbi.
http://wn.com/Sally_Priesand
Salvador Allende
http://wn.com/Salvador_Allende
Samantha Womack
Samantha Zoe Womack ( Janus; born 2 November 1972) is an English actress and singer. She is currently known for playing the role of Ronnie Mitchell in EastEnders. She is notable for her part as Mandy Wilkins in Game On, and also represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991.
http://wn.com/Samantha_Womack
Sammi Cheng
Sammi Cheng Sau-Man is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress. Having enjoyed much success in the Hong Kong music industry, Sammi has been known as a diva. Her albums have sold more than 25 million copies through Asia-pacific. Most notably in the 1990s, she was dubbed by the media as the "new cantopop queen". On top of her celebrity status, Sammi's fortune is often reported by the local press. Many a times with income from outside the entertainment industry such as advertising and miscellaneous sources. In 2000 she was estimated to have a net worth of more than HK$100 million. In a 2002 publication, Cheng was listed as the highest paid female entertainer in Hong Kong, accompanying Jackie Chan who was the highest paid male entertainer at the time.
http://wn.com/Sammi_Cheng
Sarah Cawood
Sarah Cawood (born August 6, 1972 in London) is an English television presenter. She grew up in the Cambridgeshire village of Maxey.
http://wn.com/Sarah_Cawood
Sean Daley
http://wn.com/Sean_Daley
Sean Waltman
Sean Michael Waltman (born July 13, 1972) is an American professional wrestler who most recently worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Waltman is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) under the ring names 1-2-3 Kid and X-Pac, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under the ring name Syxx and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Syxx-Pac and also under his real name.
http://wn.com/Sean_Waltman
Seo Taiji
Seo Taiji albums including Best Of, etc.:
http://wn.com/Seo_Taiji
Seán Mac Stíofáin
http://wn.com/Seán_Mac_Stíofáin
Shaan (singer)
http://wn.com/Shaan_(singer)
Shaquille O'Neal
'''Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal ( ; born March 6, 1972), nicknamed "Shaq'''" ( ), is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Boston Celtics. Standing tall and weighing , he is one of the heaviest players ever to play in the NBA. Throughout his 18 year career, O'Neal has used his size and strength to overpower opponents for points and rebounds. After the retirement of Lindsey Hunter on March 5, 2010, O'Neal became the oldest active player in the NBA.
http://wn.com/Shaquille_O'Neal
Sharkey Bonano
Joseph "Sharkey" Bonano (he sometimes billed himself as Sharkey Banana or Sharkey Bananas) (April 9, 1904 – March 27, 1972) was a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist.
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Sharon Leal
Sharon Leal (born October 17, 1972) is an American actress.
http://wn.com/Sharon_Leal
Shawn Green
Shawn David Green (born November 10, 1972 in Des Plaines, Illinois) is a former Major League Baseball player.
http://wn.com/Shawn_Green
Shoichi Yokoi
http://wn.com/Shoichi_Yokoi
Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly ()() (born 8 July 1972) is a former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. Born into an affluent family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish. He started his career by playing in state and school teams. Currently, he is the 5th highest run scorer in ODIs and was the 5th person in history to cross the 10,000 run landmark and only the 2nd Indian to cross that landmark after Sachin Tendulkar. Wisden ranked him the sixth greatest one day international (ODI) batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan.
http://wn.com/Sourav_Ganguly
Spencer Howson
Spencer Howson is the "Breakfast" radio presenter on 612 ABC Brisbane, an ABC Local Radio station in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 2010 is Spencer's twentieth year in radio and fourteenth consecutive year on 612 ABC Brisbane.
http://wn.com/Spencer_Howson
Spiro Agnew
http://wn.com/Spiro_Agnew
Sportsperson
A sportsperson (gendered as sportsman or sportswoman) or athlete is a person trained to compete in a sport involving physical strength, speed or endurance. Sportspeople may be professional or amateur.
http://wn.com/Sportsperson
Stanford Moore
Stanford Moore (September 4, 1913 – August 23, 1982) was a U.S. biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 (with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease and for contributing to the understanding of the connection between the chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule.
http://wn.com/Stanford_Moore
Stanley N. Cohen
http://wn.com/Stanley_N_Cohen
Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe (August 25, 1902 – April 4, 1972) was a German-born composer.
http://wn.com/Stefan_Wolpe
Steve McManaman
Steven McManaman (born 11 February 1972 in Bootle, England) is a retired English footballer who played as a midfielder and winger. His career included spells at two of European football's most successful clubs, Liverpool and Real Madrid. He also played for Manchester City.
http://wn.com/Steve_McManaman
Steven Fischer
Steven Thomas Fischer (born June 10, 1972) is an American film director and producer. Fischer is an Emmy Award nominated filmmaker who works primarily on documentaries. Among his many accolades, Fischer's work has been honored by the Directors Guild of America, The New York Festivals, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, and Marquis Who's Who in Entertainment. He was accepted into the Directors Guild of America at age 24 with the production of his first nationally distributed promotional documentary, This is CLEARCorps, for and about AmeriCorps. Fischer's creative films have touched many themes and genres, from the animated Wally the Green Monster cartoons that appeared on Score Card, a sports magazine show produced by noted New York television producer Mort Kasman (Sports Legends with Tom Seaver, Lorne Greene's World of Amazing Animals) to Silence of Falling Leaves, Fischer's foreign language tribute to Polish POWs murdered in World War Two during the Katyn Forest Massacre.
http://wn.com/Steven_Fischer
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, which the general survived, albeit with the loss of an arm to amputation. However, he died of complications of pneumonia eight days later. His death was a severe setback for the Confederacy, affecting not only its military prospects, but also the morale of its army and of the general public.
http://wn.com/Stonewall_Jackson
Stoney Case
Stoney Jarrod Case (born July 7, 1972 in Odessa, Texas) is a quarterback in the Arena Football League, and a former National Football League quarterback with four teams.
http://wn.com/Stoney_Case
Sung Kang
http://wn.com/Sung_Kang
Sylvia Crawley
Sylvia Crawley (born September 27, 1972 in Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.) is a former collegiate and professional women's basketball forward, licensed minister and motivational speaker. She is currently the head women's basketball coach of the Boston College Eagles.
http://wn.com/Sylvia_Crawley
Sōichirō Hoshi
http://wn.com/Sōichirō_Hoshi
Tag Adams
Tag Adams (formerly appearing as Chet Roberts) (born 1972 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA), is the stage name of a pornographic actor appearing in gay pornography.
http://wn.com/Tag_Adams
Taiwan
Taiwan, also known (especially in the past) as Formosa (from , "Beautiful Island"), is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It comprises most (99%) of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" is also a common name to refer to the entire country of the Republic of China.
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Takafumi Horie
is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Livedoor, a website design operation that grew into a popular internet portal. After being arrested on accusations of securities fraud in 2006, he severed all connections with the company. He was granted bail, and the trial began on September 4, 2006. On March 16, 2007, Horie was sentenced to imprisonment of 2 years and 6 months.
http://wn.com/Takafumi_Horie
Takako Fuji
http://wn.com/Takako_Fuji
Takashi Fujii
, born March 10, 1972 in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese comedian and singer who belongs to the Japanese entertainment conglomerate Yoshimoto Kogyo and is the popular host of Matthew's Best Hit TV (as the character , and various other related shows on TV Asahi, a major television network in Japan.
http://wn.com/Takashi_Fujii
Takuya Kimura
(born November 13, 1972), nicknamed Kimutaku, is a Japanese singer and actor. He is also a member of the Japanese idol group SMAP. Most of the TV dramas he starred in produced high ratings in Japan. He has become one of the most well-known and successful actors/singers/entertainers in Japan and Asia.
http://wn.com/Takuya_Kimura
Talal of Jordan
Talal I bin Abdullah () 26 February 1909 - 7 July 1972) was King of Jordan from 20 July 1951 until forced to abdicate due to health reasons (reported as schizophrenia) on 11 August 1952.
http://wn.com/Talal_of_Jordan
Tami Stronach
Tamara Stronach (born July 31, 1972 in Tehran, Iran) is a dancer and choreographer who has also worked as an actress.
http://wn.com/Tami_Stronach
Tamil people
Tamil people (), also called Tamils or Tamilians, are a linguistic and ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. They speak Tamil (), with a recorded history going back two millennia. Emigrant communities are found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Canada, and the UK. The Tamils are mostly Hindus with sizable Christian and Muslim populations.
http://wn.com/Tamil_people
Tammy Lynn Sytch
Tamara Lynn Sytch (born December 7, 1972) is an American professional wrestling manager, personality and occasional wrestler. She achieved her greatest success as Sunny for the World Wrestling Federation during the 1990s, and is widely considered as one of the first Divas. She also performed under her own name in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and Ring of Honor.
http://wn.com/Tammy_Lynn_Sytch
Ted Dabney
Ted Dabney is the often uncredited co-founder of Syzygy and Atari. While working at AMPEX Ted met Nolan Bushnell and the two jointly created Syzygy with their first product being Computer Space which was manufactured and sold by Nutting Associates. Following Computer Space Ted Dabney's video circuit that was created for Computer Space was used by Al Alcorn to create Pong with assistance from Ted and Nolan. Ted remained out of the public eye after departing Atari and his role in creating the first commercially produced coin-op video game as well as Syzygy and Atari was often omitted or marginalized with several myths attached. Ted appeared on the [http://www.retrogamingroundup.com RetroGaming Roundup podcast] in October of 2010 and told his story in a two hour interview. A transcript of the interview is hosted on the RetroGaming Roundup site as well as [http://www.computerspacefan.com/Ted.htm ComputerSpaceFan].
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Tedd Pierce
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Telford Taylor
Telford Taylor (February 24, 1908 - May 23, 1998) was an American lawyer best known for his role in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S. actions during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Terran Sandwith
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Terrell Davis
Terrell Lamar Davis (born October 28, 1972, in San Diego, California) is a former American football running back who played for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League from 1995 to 2001. Davis was drafted by the Broncos in the sixth round (196th pick overall) of the 1995 NFL Draft. Davis is the Denver Broncos all-time leading rusher, with 7,607 rushing yards. As a player, he was given the nickname "T.D." by players, fans and the media; this denoted both the initials of his first and last name as well as being an abbreviation for touchdown.
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Thandie Newton
Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is an English actress. She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness, Run, Fat Boy, Run, , Crash, RocknRolla, 2012, and W.
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The Notorious B.I.G.
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Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard (born 10 January 1972) is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. He comes from Flateby in Enebakk.
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Thomas Eagleton
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Tom Neal
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Tomokazu Seki
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Toni Collette
Antonia "Toni" Collette (born 1 November 1972) is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish.
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Tony Boselli
Don Anthony "Tony" Boselli, Jr. (born April 17, 1972 in Modesto, California) is a former American football offensive tackle. He spent nearly all of his professional career playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL).
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Tony Ray-Jones
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Tracee Ellis Ross
: For the soap opera actress and Star Search winner, see Tracey Ross.
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Tré Cool
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Tyson Cane
Tyson Cane (born May 17, 1972) is an African-American gay pornographic actor who appeared in pornographic films and magazines in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He then moved on to create his own short-lived film production company. He currently works as a director.
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Ulrike Meinhof
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Van Darkholme
Van Darkholme (born October 4, 1972) is a Vietnamese American gay pornographic actor, director, and photographer.
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Vesna Vulović
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Vicky Leandros
Vicky Leandros (born Vassiliki Papathanasiou, 23 August 1949, now legally Vassiliki, Baroness von Ruffin) is a Greek singer with a long international career.
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Victor Milner
Victor Milner, A.S.C. (December 15, 1893 - October 29, 1972) (sometimes Victor Miller) was an American cinematographer. He was nominated for ten cinematography Academy Awards, winning once for 1934's Cleopatra. Milner worked on more than 130 films, including dramas (Broken Lullaby), comedies (Unfaithfully Yours), film noir (Dark City), and Westerns (The Furies).
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Vietnam War
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Vincent Zhao
Zhao Zhuo (born April 10, 1972), better known as Vincent Zhao or Zhao Wenzhuo, sometimes credited as Chiu Man-cheuk, is a Chinese actor and martial artist. Zhao is best known playing the role of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung in the Once Upon a Time in China film and television series.
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Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Venediktovich Scherbo (or Shcherbo) (, ), born 13 January 1972 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, is a Belarusian and former Soviet artistic gymnast. Arguably the greatest or most successful male gymnast of all time, he is the only male gymnast ever to have won a world or olympic title on all 8 events: at the 1992 Olympics, he won 6 of 8 events (team, all-around, and 4 of 6 event finals - more golds at a single Olympics than any other gymnast in Olympic history); and at various World Championships throughout his competitive years, he collectively won every event.
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Vladimir Durković
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Vladimir Vorobiev
Vladimir Anatolievich Vorobiev (b. November 2, 1972 in Cherepovets, Soviet Union) is a professional ice hockey forward. He was selected in the tenth round of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, 240th overall, by the New York Rangers. The vast majority of his career has been spent in the Russian Super League, and he currently plays for Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the Kontinental Hockey League which replaced the RSL in 2008.
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Walter Lang
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Warren Kealoha
Warren Paoa Kealoha (March 3, 1904 – September 8, 1972) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and 1924 Summer Olympics.
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Warren Sapp
Warren Harrison Sapp (born December 19, 1972) is a retired American football player who played defensive tackle in the National Football League. He played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders during his 13 year professional career, and college football for the University of Miami Hurricanes. He was then drafted by the Buccaneers in the 1995 NFL Draft as the 12th overall pick. He spent nine seasons with the team where he earned seven trips to the Pro Bowl and a Super Bowl ring in 2002. He moved to the Raiders in 2004.
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Wayne Brady
Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an actor, singer, comedian and television personality, known for his work as a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and as the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show. He was the host of FOX's ''Don't Forget the Lyrics!, and currently hosts the 2009 revival of Let's Make a Deal''.
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Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German-American rocket scientist, engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States during and after World War II. A one-time member of the Nazi party and a commissioned SS officer, von Braun would later be regarded as the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century in his role with the United States civilian space agency NASA.
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Wesley Ruggles
Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director.
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Wil Wheaton
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series and Gordie LaChance in the film Stand by Me. As a writer, he is best known as a voice for the geek community and for his weblog, Wil Wheaton Dot Net.
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William Boyd (actor)
William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972) was an American film actor best known for portraying Hopalong Cassidy.
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William Dieterle
William Dieterle (July 15, 1893, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, – December 9, 1972, Ottobrunn) was a German actor and film director, who worked in Hollywood for much of his career.
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William H. Stein
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Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (; 18 December 1913 - 8 October 1992), was a German politician, Chancellor of West Germany 1969–1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 1964–1987.
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Wyclef Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean (, ; born October 17, 1969)[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2012369,00.html Wyclef Dumped From Haiti's Presidential Ballot] - TIME, 21 Aug 2010. "Before he announced on August 5 that he was running for President of Haiti, Wyclef Jean was still listing his age as only 37 years old. But after declaring himself a presidential candidate, the Haitian-American hip-hop star also decided to come clean and confirm that he was really 40." is a Haitian musician, record producer and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group, the Fugees.
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Wynne Evans
Wynne Evans (born 27 January 1972) is a Welsh tenor. He is popularly known for both playing and singing the role of Gio Compario in the Gocompare.com insurance adverts on television in the United Kingdom.
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Yakov Springer
Yakov Springer (ca. 1921 – September 6, 1972), was a wrestler and a weightlifting coach and judge, but is best known as one of the victims of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Yang Yong-eun
Yang Yong-eun (, born 15 January 1972), or Y. E. Yang, is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour, where he has won twice, including the 2009 PGA Championship.
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Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
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Yoon Chan
Yoon Chan (born 3 January 1972) is a South Korean actor.
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Yossef Gutfreund
Yossef Gutfreund (1932 - September 6, 1972) was an Israeli wrestling judge for his country's 1972 Olympic team. He was murdered in the Munich massacre by Black September terrorists along with 10 other members of the Israeli team.
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Yossef Romano
Yossef Romano (; April 15, 1940 – September 5, 1972) was a Libyan-born, Jewish Israeli weightlifter with the Israeli team that went to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He was the second of eleven Israeli team members murdered in the Munich massacre by Black September terrorists during that Olympics. He was the Israeli weight-lifting champion in the light and middle-weight divisions for nine years.
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Ze'ev Friedman
'''Ze'ev Friedman''' (June 10, 1944 - September 6, 1972), was an Israeli flyweight weightlifter. A member of the Israeli Olympic team, he was murdered by terrorists in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
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Zhang Guohua
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Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane () (born 23 June 1972) is a retired French World Cup-winning footballer of Kabyle (Algerian) Muslim heritage.
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Urdu: lang|ur|, , ) (January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the fourth President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. He was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan. His daughter Benazir Bhutto also served twice as prime minister. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007.
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Şebnem Ferah
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1972 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1972 MCMLXXII
Ab urbe condita	2725
Armenian calendar	1421 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	6722
Bahá'í calendar	128–129
Bengali calendar	1379
Berber calendar	2922
British Regnal year	20 Eliz. 2 – 21 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2516
Burmese calendar	1334
Byzantine calendar	7480–7481
Chinese calendar	辛亥年十一月十五日 (4608/4668-11-15) — to — 壬子年十一月廿六日 (4609/4669-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1688–1689
Ethiopian calendar	1964–1965
Hebrew calendar	5732–5733
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2028–2029
- Shaka Samvat	1894–1895
- Kali Yuga	5073–5074
Holocene calendar	11972
Iranian calendar	1350–1351
Islamic calendar	1391–1392
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 47 (昭和47年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4305
Minguo calendar	ROC 61 民國61年
Thai solar calendar	2515
Unix time	63072000–94694399
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Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) 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. (If its begin and end are defined using mean solar time (the legal time scale) then its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908).^[1]

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Main article: January 1972

January 1
- Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary General of the United Nations.
- Pierre Hotel Robbery: Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of The Pierre Hotel in New York City of at least $4 million.
January 3
- MGM's 1951 Show Boat is presented on television by NBC for the first time. This marks the first complete network telecast of any version of Show Boat (it had already been filmed as a part-talkie in 1929, and as a full-sound musical in 1936).
January 4
- The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395).
- Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge at the Old Bailey in London.
January 5 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
January 7
- An Iberian Airlines passenger plane crashes into a 250-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed.
- Howard Hughes speaks by telephone to denounce Clifford Irving's supposed biography of him.
January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor.
January 10 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns Bangladesh from Pakistan
January 13 – Prime Minister of Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia is overthrown in a military coup.
January 14 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark succeeds her father, King Frederick IX, on the throne of Denmark.
January 16 – Super Bowl VI: The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Miami Dolphins 24–3.
January 19 – The Libertarian enclave Minerva on a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation, declares independence. Soon neighboring Tonga annexes the area and dismantles the platform.
January 20
- – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announces that Pakistan will immediately begin a nuclear weapons programme.
- – Fears are growing about the economy of the United Kingdom, where unemployment is now exceeding 1 million for the first time since World War II.^[2]
January 21 – A New Delhi bootlegger sells wood alcohol to a wedding party; 100 die.
January 24 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam; he had spent 28 years in the jungle.
January 25 – Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Congresswoman, announces her candidacy for President.
January 26
- Yugoslavian air stewardess Vesna Vulović is the only survivor when her plane crashes in Czechoslovakia. She survives after falling 10,160 meters (33,330 feet) in the tail section of the aircraft.
- The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is set up on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra.
January 28 – Richard Chanfray claims he is the Count of St Germain on French television.
January 30
- Bloody Sunday: The British Army kills 14 unarmed nationalist civil rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
- Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
January 31 – King Birendra succeeds his father as King of Nepal.

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Main article: February 1972

February 2
- A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin, killing Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder.
- The German militant group Movement 2 June announces its support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. The British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.
February 3 – February 13 – The 1972 Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, Japan.
February 4 – Mariner 9 sends pictures from Mars.
February 5
- U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage.
- Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
February 9 – The British government declares a state of emergency over a miners' strike.
February 15
- President of Ecuador José María Velasco Ibarra is deposed for the fourth time.
- Phonorecords are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
February 17 – Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model-T when the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced.
February 18 – The California Supreme Court voids the state's death penalty, commuting all death sentences to life in prison.
February 19 – Asama-Sansō incident: Five United Red Army members break into a lodge below Mount Asama, taking the wife of the lodge keeper hostage.
February 21 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
February 21 – February 28 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.
February 22
- Aldershot bombing: An Official IRA bomb kills 7 in Aldershot, England.
- A Lufthansa plane is hijacked and taken to Aden. Passengers are released after a ransom of 16 million German marks is agreed.
February 23 – Angela Davis is released from jail. A Caruthers, California farmer, Rodger McAfee, helps her make bail.
February 24 – North Vietnamese negotiators walk out of the Paris Peace Talks to protest U.S. air raids.
February 26
- A coal sludge spill kills 125 people in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia.
- Luna 20 comes back to Earth with 55 grams (1.94 oz) of lunar soil.
February 28 – The Asama-Sanso incident ends in a standoff between 5 members of the Japanese United Red Army and the authorities, in which 2 policemen are killed and 12 injured.

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March 1
- The Thai province Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
- The Club of Rome publishes its report Limits to Growth.
March 2
- The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system.
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa becomes President of the Central African Republic.
March 3 – Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain in the U.S. state of Georgia.
March 4
- Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.
- The Organisation of the Islamic Conference Charter is signed (effective 28 February 1973).
March 5 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves the Greek Communist Party.
March 13
- The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China elevate diplomatic exchanges to the ambassadorial level after 22 years.
- Clifford Irving admits to a New York court that he had fabricated Howard Hughes' "autobiography".
March 16 – The first building of the Pruitt–Igoe housing development is destroyed.
March 19 – India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty.
March 22 – The 92nd U.S. Congress votes to send the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
March 24
- The Godfather is released in cinemas in the United States.
- The British government announces the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the introduction of 'Direct Rule' of Northern Ireland, after the Unionist government refuses to cede security powers.
March 25
- Après Toi sung by Vicky Leandros (music by Klaus Munro & Mario Panas, lyric by Klaus Munro & Yves Dessca) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 for Luxembourg.
- Bewitched starring Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick Sargent aired its final episode, "The Truth, Nothing but the Truth, So Help Me Sam" on ABC.
March 26
- An avalanche on Mount Fuji kills 19 climbers.
- The last trolleybus system in the United Kingdom closes in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire after over 60 years of operation.
- After fourteen years, the last of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts is telecast by CBS. This last concert is devoted to Gustav Holst's The Planets.
March 30 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

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April 7 – Vietnam War veteran Richard McCoy, Jr. hijacks a United Airlines jet and extorts $500,000; he is later captured.
April 10
- The U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare.
- A 7.0 Richter scale earthquake kills 5,000 people in the Iranian province of Fars.
- The 44th Annual Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
April 13 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
April 16
- Apollo 16 (John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke) is launched. During the mission, the astronauts achieve a lunar rover speed record of 18 km/h.
- Vietnam War – Nguyen Hue Offensive: Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
April 17 – The first Boston Marathon in which women are officially allowed to compete.
April 22 – Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax finish rowing across the Pacific.
April 26 – The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar enters service with Eastern Airlines.
April 27 – A no-confidence vote against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
April 29 – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, 13 Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and for using marijuana.

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May
- The Burundian Genocide against the Hutu begins; more than 500,000 Hutus die.
May 2 – Fire in a silver mine in Idaho kills 91.
May 5 – An Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo, Sicily; 115 die.
May 7 – General elections are held in Italy.
May 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the mining of Haiphong Harbor in Vietnam.
May 13 – Fire in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store in Osaka, Japan, kills 115.
May 15
- Okinawa is returned to Japan after 27 years of United States Military occupation.
- Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur Herman Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland political rally.
May 16 – The first financial derivatives exchange, the International Monetary Market (IMM), opens on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
May 18 – Four troopers of both SAS and SBS are parachuted onto the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, 1,000 miles (1,600 km) off Britain in the Atlantic, after a bomb threat and ransom demand, which turns out to be bogus.
May 19 – Three out of 6 bombs explode in the Springer Press building in Hamburg, Germany, injuring 17; the Red Army Faction claims responsibility.
May 21 – In Rome, Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's "Pietà" statue with a sledgehammer, shouting that he is Jesus Christ.
May 22
- Ceylon becomes the republic of Sri Lanka under prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified.
- Ferit Melen forms the new (interim) government of Turkey (35th government)
May 23 – The Tamil United Front (now known as Tamil United Liberation Front), a pro-Tamil organization, is founded.
May 24
- Rangers lift the Cup Winners Cup, defeating Dynamo Moscow in the final at the Nou Camp. Their supporters invade the pitch, with the team banned from defending the trophy the following season.
- A Red Army Faction bomb explodes in the Campbell Barracks of the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in Heidelberg, West Germany; 3 U.S. soldiers (Clyde Bonner, Ronald Woodard and Charles Peck) are killed.
- The Magnavox Odyssey video game system is first demoed, marking the dawn of the video game age; it goes on sale to the public in August.
May 26
- Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.
- The Watergate first break-in, the "Ameritas dinner", fails.
- Wernher von Braun retires from NASA, frustrated by the agency's unwillingness to pursue a manned trans-orbital space program.
- Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
May 27 – A second Watergate break-in attempt fails.
May 30
- The Angry Brigade goes on trial in the United Kingdom.
- Three Japanese Red Army members kill 24 and injure 100 in Lod Airport, Israel.

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June – Iraq nationalizes the Iraq Petroleum Company.
June 2 – Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Holger Meins and some other members of Red Army Faction are arrested in Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.
June 3 – Sally Priesand becomes the first female U.S. rabbi.
June 4 – Angela Davis is found not guilty of murder.
June 5 – June 16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Sweden
June 8 – Seven men and 3 women hijack a plane from Czechoslovakia to West Germany.
June 9 – The Black Hills flood kills 238 in South Dakota.
June 14 – June 23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S. East Coast.
June 15 – Ulrike Meinhof and Gerhard Müller of the Red Army Faction are arrested in a teacher's apartment in Langenhagen, West Germany.
June 15 – June 18 – The first U.S. Libertarian Party National Convention is held in Denver, Colorado.
June 16 – 108 die as two passenger trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France.
June 17
- Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
- The United States returns Okinawa, occupied and governed since the World War II Battle of Okinawa, to Japan.
- Chilean president Salvador Allende forms a new government.
June 18
- Staines air disaster: 118 die when a Trident 1 jet airliner crashes 2 minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
- West Germany beats the Soviet Union 3–0 to win Euro 72.
June 23 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C.I.A. to obstruct the F.B.I.'s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
June 26 – Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney co-found Atari.
June 28 – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam.
June 29 – Furman v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
June 30 – An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end the month.

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July – U.S. actress Jane Fonda tours North Vietnam, during which she is photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun.
July 1
- The Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters, to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.
- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms becomes independent from the IRS.
July 2 – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally.
July 4 – The first Rainbow Gathering is held in Colorado.
July 8 – The U.S. sells grain to the Soviet Union for $750 million.
July 10 – India's news agency reports that at least 24 people have been killed in separate incidents, in the Chandka Forest in India, by elephants crazed by heat and drought.
July 10 – July 14 – The Democratic National Convention meets in Miami Beach. Senator George McGovern, who backs the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam, is nominated for President. He names fellow Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate.
July 15 – The Pruitt–Igoe housing development is demolished in Saint Louis, Missouri.
July 18 – Anwar Sadat expels 20,000 Soviet advisors from Egypt.
July 21
- Bloody Friday: 22 bombs planted by the Provisional IRA explode in Belfast, Northern Ireland; nine people are killed and 130 seriously injured.^[3]
- Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee police for public obscenity, for reciting his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" at Summerfest.
- A collision between two trains near Sevilla, Spain kills 76 people.
July 23 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
July 25 – U.S. health officials admit that African-Americans were used as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.
July 29 – A national dock strike begins in Britain.
July 31 – The Troubles, Northern Ireland:
- Operation Motorman, 4:00 AM: British Army begins to regain control of the "no-go areas" established by Irish republican paramilitaries in Belfast, Derry ("Free Derry") and Newry.^[3]
- Claudy bombing (“Bloody Monday”), 10:00 AM: Three car bombs in Claudy, County Londonderry, kill nine. It becomes public knowledge only in 2010 that that a local Catholic priest was an IRA officer believed to be involved in the bombings but his rôle was covered up by the authorities.^[4]

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August 1 – U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, withdraws from the race after revealing he was once treated for mental illness.
August 4
- Arthur Bremer is jailed for 63 years for shooting George Wallace.
- Dictator Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months.
- A huge solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in U.S. It begins with the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels of activity until August 10.
August 10 – A brilliant, daytime meteor skips off the Earth's atmosphere due to an Apollo asteroid streaking over the western US into Canada.^[5]
August 12 – The last U.S. ground troops are withdrawn from Vietnam.
August 14 – An East German Ilyushin airliner crashes near East Berlin; all 156 onboard perish.
August 16 – As part of a coup attempt, members of the Royal Moroccan Air Force fire upon, but fail to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
August 21 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida renominates U.S. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for a second term.
August 22 – John Wojtowicz, 27, and Sal Naturile, 18, hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in Gravesend, Brooklyn, N.Y, an event later dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon.
August 26 – September 11 – The 1972 Summer Olympics are held in Munich, West Germany.

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September 1 – Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match at Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American to be world chess champion.
September 4 – The first episode of The Price Is Right is hosted on CBS by Bob Barker. Gambit and The Joker's Wild also premiere.
September 5 – September 6 – Munich Massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after 8 members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; 5 guerillas and 1 policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.
September 10 – The Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and becomes the youngest Formula One World Champion.
September 14 – West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations.
September 17 – Uganda announces that there are Tanzanian troops in its territory.
September 18 – São Paulo Metro is inaugurated in Brazil.
September 19 – A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London kills 1 diplomat.
September 21 – Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081^[6] placing the entire country under martial law.
September 24 – An F-86 fighter aircraft leaving an air show at Sacramento Executive Airport fails to become airborne and crashes into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor, killing 12 children and 11 adults.^[7]
September 25 – Norwegian EC referendum, 1972: Norway rejects membership in the European Economic Community.
September 27 – The Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China is signed in Beijing.
September 28 – The Canadian national men's hockey team defeats the Soviet national ice hockey team in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series (French: La Série du Siècle, Russian: Суперсерия СССР — Канада), 6–5, to win the series 4–3–1.
September 29 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan normalizes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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October – The government of former President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre formally introduces the Somali alphabet as Somalia's official writing script.^[8]
October 1
- The first publication reporting the production of a recombinant DNA molecule marks the birth of modern molecular biology methodology.^[9]
- Alex Comfort's bestselling manual The Joy of Sex is published.
October 2 – Denmark joins the European Community; the Faroe Islands stay out.
October 5 – The United Reformed Church is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.
October 6 – A train crash in Saltillo, Mexico kills 208 people.
October 8 – R. Sargent Shriver is chosen to replace Thomas Eagleton as the U.S. vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
October 12 – En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial riot involving more than 200 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk; nearly 50 sailors are injured.
October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14,000' in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive.
October 16
- A plane carrying U.S. Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana and 3 other men vanishes in Alaska. The wreckage has never been found, despite a massive search at the time.
- Rioting Maze Prison inmates cause a fire that destroys most of the camp.
October 17 – Elizabeth II visits Yugoslavia.
October 25
- The first female FBI agents are hired.
- Belgian Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in cycling in Mexico City.
October 26 – Following a visit to South Vietnam, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger suggests that "peace is at hand."
October 28 – The Airbus A300 flies for the first time.
October 29 – The Black September group hijacks a Lufthansa Boeing 727 over Turkey, demanding the release of 3 comrades still held for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games.
October 30
- U.S. President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
- A commuter train collision in Chicago kills 45, injures hundreds.

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Nixon's landslide victory in the electoral college during the 1972 Election.

The arcade version of Pong is released.

November
- At a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept of recombinant DNA. They publish their results in November 1973 in PNAS. Separately in 1972, Paul Berg also recombines DNA in a test tube. Recombinant DNA technology has dramatically changed the field of biological sciences, especially biotechnology, and opened the door to genetically modified organisms.
- The Nishitetsu Lions baseball club, part of the NPB's Pacific League, is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary of Nishi-Nippon Railroad. The team is renamed the Taiheiyo Club Lions.
November 5 – A group of Amerindians occupies the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
November 7 – U.S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide (the election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting).
November 11 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
November 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
November 16 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage^[10]
November 19 – Seán Mac Stíofáin, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving an interview to RTÉ.
November 22 – Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
November 28 – The last executions in Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers – were guillotined at La Sante Prison by chief executioner Andre Obrecht (already suffering from Parkinson's Disease). Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice was condemned to death anyway. President Georges Pompidou, in private an abolitionist, upheld both death sentences in deference to French public opinion.
November 29
- Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.
- The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the Amstel River in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands.^[11]
November 30
- Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning United States troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
- Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland.

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December 2 – Edward Gough Whitlam becomes the first Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years. He is sworn in on 5 December and his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War.
December 7
- Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last manned Moon mission to date, is launched.
- The Provisional Irish Republican Army kidnaps Jean McConville in Belfast.
- Imelda Marcos is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot him.
December 8
- United Airlines Boeing 737 from Washington National to Chicago Midway crashes short of the runway, killing 43 of 61 passengers and 2 people on the ground.
- Over $10,000 cash is found in the purse of Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt's wife.
- International Human Rights Day is proclaimed by the United Nations.
December 11 – Apollo 17 lands on the Moon.
- The film Man of La Mancha, based on the hit musical, begins a roadshow run in New York City. Most critics savage it, partly because the cast is made up of mostly non-singing actors who nevertheless sing in the film. The only actor to have his singing voice dubbed is Peter O'Toole, who stars as Cervantes and Don Quixote. Gino Conforti is the only member of the original cast to repeat his role. The film is a box office flop, but more than twenty years later, its reputation starts to improve when it is released on video and public response is enthusiastic.
December 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th Century.
December 15
- The Commonwealth of Australia ordains equal pay for women.
- The United Nations Environment Programme is established as a specialized agency of the United Nations.
December 16
- The Constitution of Bangladesh comes into effect.
- The Portuguese army kills 400 Africans in Tete, Mozambique.
December 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 17 returns to Earth, concluding the program of lunar exploration.
December 21
- East Germany and West Germany recognize each other.
- ZANLA troopers attack Altera Farm in north-east Rhodesia.
December 22
- Two small earthquakes are felt at about 9:30 and 10:15 local time in Managua, Nicaragua.
- Australia establishes diplomatic relations with China and West Germany.
- A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war (they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam).
December 23
- A 6.25 Richter scale earthquake in Nicaragua kills 5,000–12,000 people in the capital, Managua; President Somoza is later accused of pocketing millions of dollars worth of foreign aid intended for relief.
- The Pittsburgh Steelers win their first ever post-season NFL game, defeating the Oakland Raiders 13–7, on a last second play that becomes known as The Immaculate Reception.
December 24 – Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme compares the American bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres. The U.S. breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
December 25 – The Christmas bombing of North Vietnam causes widespread criticism of the U.S. and President Richard Nixon.
December 26 – Former United States President Harry S. Truman dies in Kansas City, Missouri.
December 28 – The bones of Martin Bormann are identified in Berlin.
December 29 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of 176 onboard.
December 31
- Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico while en route to deliver aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims.
- An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end the year.
- The US ban on the pesticide DDT takes effect.

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The International Year of the Book is designated by UNESCO.
The last major epidemic of smallpox in Europe breaks out in Yugoslavia.
The United Kingdom begin to train Special Air Service for anti-terrorist duties.
The first women are admitted to Dartmouth College.
Colombian looters find Ciudad Perdida but keep it a secret until the government reveals it in 1975.
The Yellow River dries up for the first time in known history.
Worship of Norse gods is officially approved in Iceland.
The Second Cod War breaks out between the United Kingdom and Iceland.
The Climatic Research Unit is founded by climatologist Hubert Lamb at the University of East Anglia.
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia bans the cultural organization Matica hrvatska, founded in 1842.