Famous People Who Died in 1972

• Alinsky, Saul

  The father of community organizing

• Atlas, Charles

  Mail-order bodybuilding expert

• Bush, Prescott

  The father of president George Bush

• Clayton Powell, Adam Jr.

  The Harlem preacher who was a congressman from 1945 to 1970

• Clemente, Roberto

  The first Hispanic in the Baseball Hall of Fame

• Escher, M.C.

  Mind-bending artist of "Hand With Reflecting Sphere"

• Fleischer, Max

  The creator of Betty Boop cartoons

• Gilbreth, Lillian

  The engineer and efficiency expert and mom of 'Cheaper by the Dozen'

• Hoover, J. Edgar

  Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1924-72

• Jackson, Mahalia

  Gospel singing legend

• King Edward VIII

  King of England who abdicated to marry a divorced American

• Moore, Marianne

  Tricorn hat-wearing modernist poet

• Pound, Ezra

  The early-20th-century poet who wrote The Cantos

• Robinson, Jackie

  The man who broke baseball's color barrier

• Truman, Harry S.

  President of the United States, 1945-53

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