Editing 1972 in television (section)

==Deaths==
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! Date || Name || Age || Notability 
|-
|January 16
|[[Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.]]<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=Ross Bagdasarian, Actor, Song Writer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/01/19/archives/ross-bagdasarian-i-actor-song-writer.html?_r=0|work=[[The New York Times]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=19 January 1972}}</ref>
|align="center"|52
|Composer, creator of ''[[The Alvin Show]]''
|-
|May 12 
|[[Steve Ihnat]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/20/archives/teve-iitnat-actor-and-director-dead.html?_r=0 |title=Steve Ihnat, Actor and Director, Dead |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=36 |date=May 20, 1972}}</ref>
|align="center"|37
|Actor (''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'')
|-
|May 13 
|[[Dan Blocker]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Blood clot in lung Kills Dan Blocker |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19720516&id=2OUzAAAAIBAJ&pg=7392,3387904|work=Lodi News-Sentinel|via=Google News Archive Search|date=May 16, 1972|access-date=January 8, 2022}}</ref>
|align="center"|43
|Actor (Hoss Cartwright on ''[[Bonanza]]'')
|-
|October 16
|[[Leo G. Carroll]]
|align="center"|85
|English actor (''[[Topper (TV series)|Topper]]'', ''[[Going My Way (TV series)|Going My Way]]'', ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'')
|-
|December 26
|[[Harry S. Truman]]
|align="center"|88
|Politician and 33rd [[President of the United States]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Byrne |first=Kerry |date=2022-12-23 |title=On this day in history, December 26, 1972, President Harry S. Truman dies after suffering from pneumonia |url=https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-dec-26-1972-president-harry-s-truman-dies-suffering-pneumonia |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}</ref>
|}