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Celebrities who died at age 72

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The list Celebrities who died at age 72 includes John Wayne, Peggy Lipton, Tura Satana, Joan Crawford and Noreen Corcoran. The list consists of 9,566 members.
  • 1.

    John Wayne
    American film actor
    John Wayne
    Overview: Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker who became a popular icon through his starring roles ...
    Date of birth: 26 May 1907
    Date of death: 11 June 1979
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)
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    Male actors of Scottish descent 224T
    Male actors of Irish descent 682T
    Male actors of English descent 380T
  • 2.

    Peggy Lipton
    American, Actress
    Peggy Lipton
    Overview: Margaret Ann Lipton (August 30, 1946 – May 11, 2019) was an American actress, model, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining ...
    Date of birth: 30 August 1946
    Date of death: 11 May 2019
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Deaths from colorectal cancer in California 92T
    Jewish American memoirists 103T
    Jewish American non-fiction writers 1,471T
  • 3.

    Tura Satana
    Japanese American actress (1938–2011)
    Tura Satana
    Overview: Tura Satana (July 10, 1938 – February 4, 2011) was a Japanese American actress, vedette and exotic dancer. From 13 film and television credits, some of her work includes the exploitation film Faster ...
    Date of birth: 10 July 1938
    Date of death: 4 February 2011
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    American dancers of Japanese descent 10T
    American burlesque performers 80T
    American vedettes 36T
  • 4.

    Joan Crawford
    American actress (190?–1977)
    Joan Crawford
    Overview: Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, c. 1904–1908 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was ...
    Date of birth: 23 March 1905
    Date of death: 10 May 1977
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    20th-century American memoirists 507T
    20th-century memoirists 870T
    20th-century American businesswomen 600T
  • 5.

    Noreen Corcoran
    Retired actress and dancer in Chatsworth, California
    Noreen Corcoran
    Overview: Noreen M. Corcoran (born October 20, 1943) is a former actress and dancer best known for her costarring role in the television sitcom Bachelor Father, as the teenager Kelly Gregg, the niece of wealthy ...
    Date of birth: 20 October 1943
    Date of death: 15 January 2016
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    2016 deaths 9,448T
    Singers from Massachusetts 227T
    Actresses from Massachusetts 176T
  • 6.

    Skeeter Davis
    Singer-songwriter
    Skeeter Davis
    Overview: Skeeter Davis (born Mary Frances Penick; December 30, 1931 – September 19, 2004) was an American country music singer who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She ...
    Date of birth: 30 December 1931
    Date of death: 19 September 2004
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
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    Singer-songwriters from Kentucky 122T
    21st-century American women singers 3,013T
    20th-century American women singers 2,186T
  • 7.

    Cilla Black
    English actress and singer
    Cilla Black
    Overview: Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author.
    Date of birth: 27 May 1943
    Date of death: 2 August 2015
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    People from Vauxhall, Liverpool 2T
    Actresses of Irish descent 597T
    Rory Storm and the Hurricanes members 7T
  • 8.

    Virginia Hill
    American, Actress
    Virginia Hill
    Date of birth: 8 August 1929
    Date of death: 3 February 2002
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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  • 9.

    Janice Rule
    Actress
    Janice Rule
    Overview: Mary Janice Rule (August 15, 1931 – October 17, 2003) was an American actress "at her most convincing playing embittered, neurotic socialites". She studied psychoanalysis in her later life, earning a PhD ...
    Date of birth: 15 August 1931
    Date of death: 17 October 2003
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Actresses of Irish descent 597T
    People from Norwood, Ohio 20T
    Actresses from Ohio 122T
  • 10.

    Telly Savalas
    American actor (1922–1994)
    Telly Savalas
    Overview: Aristotelis Savalas (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Σαβάλας; January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994), known professionally as Telly Savalas, was an American actor and singer whose career spanned four decades. Noted for ...
    Date of birth: 21 January 1922
    Date of death: 22 January 1994
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    20th-century American male singers 1,895T
    20th-century male singers 6,336T
    United States Army non-commissioned officers 410T
  • 11.

    Sigrid Valdis
    American actress
    Sigrid Valdis
    Overview: Patricia Annette Olson (September 21, 1935 – October 14, 2007), known by her stage name Sigrid Valdis, was an American actress. She was best known for playing "Hilda" in the American television series ...
    Date of birth: 21 September 1935
    Date of death: 14 October 2007
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    Actresses from Bakersfield, California 11T
    Actors from Bakersfield, California 15T
    Actresses from California 904T
  • 12.

    Kristin Harmon
    American actress and painter (1945–2018)
    Kristin Harmon
    Overview: Sharon Kristin Nelson (née Harmon; June 25, 1945 – April 27, 2018) was an American primitive painter, actress, and author, once married to the actor and musician Ricky Nelson.
    Date of birth: 2 June 1945
    Date of death: 26 April 2018
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    American women memoirists 842T
    2018 deaths 10,636T
    21st-century American women 17,256T
  • 13.

    James MacArthur
    American actor
    James MacArthur
    Overview: James Gordon MacArthur (December 8, 1937 – October 28, 2010) was an American actor best known for the role of Danny "Danno" Williams, the reliable second-in-command of the fictional Hawaiian State Police ...
    Date of birth: 8 December 1937
    Date of death: 28 October 2010
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Male actors from Greater Los Angeles 168T
    20th-century American male actors 9,543T
    American male stage actors 3,614T
  • 14.

    Christine Kaufmann
    German actress and businesswoman
    Christine Kaufmann
    Overview: Christine Maria Kaufmann ( 11 January 1945 – 28 March 2017) was a German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman. The daughter of a German father and a French mother, she won the Golden Globe Award ...
    Date of birth: 26 January 1945
    Date of death: 28 March 2017
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Businesspeople from Munich 33T
    2017 deaths 9,371T
    Actresses from Munich 76T
  • 15.

    Alexis Smith
    Actress
    Alexis Smith
    Overview: Margaret Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career ...
    Date of birth: 8 June 1921
    Date of death: 9 June 1993
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    Pin-up models 13T
    Deaths from brain cancer in California 142T
    Deaths from brain cancer in the United States 549T
  • 16.

    Marcello Mastroianni
    Italian actor (1924–1996)
    Marcello Mastroianni
    Overview: Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor, regarded as one of his country's most iconic male performers of the ...
    Date of birth: 28 September 1924
    Date of death: 19 December 1996
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    Italian prisoners of war in World War II 19T
    Volpi Cup for Best Actor winners 77T
    César Honorary Award recipients 88T
  • 17.

    Susannah York
    English film, stage and television actress (1939–2011)
    Susannah York
    Overview: Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011), known professionally as Susannah York, was an English actress. Her appearances in various films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and ...
    Date of birth: 9 January 1939
    Date of death: 15 January 2011
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners 96T
    Actresses from London 1,257T
    21st-century English actresses 1,157T
  • 18.

    Barbara McNair
    American singer and actress (1934–2007)
    Barbara McNair
    Overview: Barbara Jean McNair (March 4, 1934 – February 4, 2007) was an American singer and theater, television and film actress. McNair's career spanned over five decades appearing in television, film and stage ...
    Date of birth: 4 March 1934
    Date of death: 4 February 2007
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    20th-century American women singers 2,001T
    Musicians from Racine, Wisconsin 12T
    Female models from Illinois 60T
  • 19.

    Julie Gregg
    American actor
    Julie Gregg
    Overview: Julie Gregg (born Beverly Scalzo, January 24, 1937 – November 7, 2016) was an American television, film and stage actress.
    Date of birth: 24 January 1944
    Date of death: 7 November 2016
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    2016 deaths 9,448T
    Actresses from New York 471T
    American stage actresses 3,329T
  • 20.

    Linda Lewis
    British musician (1950–2023)
    Linda Lewis
    Overview: Linda Ann Fredericks (27 September 1950 – 3 May 2023), better known as Linda Lewis, was an English vocalist, songwriter and guitarist. She is the eldest of six children, three of whom also had singing ...
    Date of birth: 27 September 1950
    Date of death: 3 May 2023
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Vocalist
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century Black British women singers 157T
    20th-century Black British women singers 92T
    20th-century British guitarists 157T
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