Editing 1972 (section)

===February===
[[File:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]]]]
* [[February 2]] – [[Jessie Royce Landis]], American actress (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nissen|first1=Axel|title=Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties|date=2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786427468|pages=95–99}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] – [[Marianne Moore]], American poet (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Elizabeth|title=Twenty-first century Marianne Moore. Essays from a critical Renaissance|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Cham|year=2017|isbn=9783319651095|page=257}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] – [[Walter Lang]], American film director (b. [[1896]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Colin Munro MacLeod]], Canadian-American geneticist (b. [[1909]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Gavriil Popov (composer)|Gavriil Popov]], Soviet Russian composer (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 19]]
** [[John Grierson]], Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. [[1898]])
** [[Lee Morgan]], American jazz trumpeter and composer (b. [[1938]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Maria Goeppert Mayer]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1906]])<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1963/mayer/biographical/|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=April 9, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Walter Winchell]], American journalist (b. [[1897]])<ref>
{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,,910224,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204143240/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,,910224,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 4, 2013|title=Mrs. Winchell's Little Boy|date=March 26, 1972|work=Time Magazine|access-date=October 17, 2011}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Gottfried Fuchs]], German footballer (b. [[1889]])