Editing 1972 (section)

===August===
[[File:Max Theiler nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Max Theiler]]]]
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* [[August 8]] – [[Andrea Feldman]], American actress (b. [[1948]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Ernst von Salomon]], German writer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Ernst von Salomon Dead; West German Author, 69|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/10/archives/ernst-yon-salomor-dead-i-west-g2_ror-69.html|access-date=November 18, 2021|work=The New York Times|date=August 10, 1972|location=Bonn}}</ref>
* [[August 11]] – [[Max Theiler]], South African-born American virologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 14]]
** [[Oscar Levant]], American pianist and actor (b. [[1906]])
** [[Jules Romains]], French poet and writer (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Pierre Brasseur]], French actor (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Pierre Brasseur|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=August 10, 2024|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Brasseur}}</ref>
* [[August 19]] – [[Rudolf Belling]], German sculptor (b. [[1886]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Juan Manuel Gálvez]], 39th [[President of Honduras]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Jinichi Kusaka]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Francis Chichester|Sir Francis Chichester]], British sailor and aviator (b. [[1901]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Prince William of Gloucester]] (b. [[1941]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2536000/2536275.stm|title=1972: Prince William killed in plane crash|publisher=BBC News|work=On This Day|access-date=April 28, 2011|date=August 28, 1972}}</ref>
* [[August 29]] – [[René Leibowitz]], French composer (b. [[1913]])