Oskar Matute

Spanish politician.

Born October 5th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Barakaldo. ^[ref]

David Bakradze

Georgian politician and diplomat.

Born July 1st, 1972 (age 53 years) in Tbilisi.

Andreas Dackell

Swedish ice hockey player.

Born December 29th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Gävle.

Édson Ribeiro

Athletics competitor.

Born December 8th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Bandeirantes.

Alexei Fedorov

Belarusian chess player.

Born August 5th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Mogilev.

Félix Cárdenas

Road bicycle racer.

Born November 24th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Encino.

Stevan Pletikosić

Serbian sport shooter.

Born March 14th, 1972 (age 54 years) in Kragujevac.

Vyacheslav Zahorodnyuk

Ukrainian figure skater.

Born August 11th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Odesa.

Pavlo Shkapenko

Ukrainian footballer (1972–2023).

Born December 16th, 1972 in Zaporizhzhia.

Died April 17th, 2023 at 50 years old in Kyiv. ^[ref]

Pavel Liška

Czech actor.

Born June 29th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Liberec. ^[ref]

Christoph Hochhäusler

German film director.

Born July 10th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Munich.

Lindita Arapi

Albanian author, journalist and writer.

Born June 30th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Lushnjë.

Alexei Popogrebski

Russian film director and screenwriter (born 1972).

Born August 7th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Moscow.

Bojana Gregorić

Croatian actress.

Born February 17th, 1972 (age 54 years) in Zagreb.

Igor Kudelin

Basketball player.

Born August 10th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Taganrog. ^[ref]

Takuya Kimura

Japanese baseball player (1972–2010).

Born April 15th, 1972 in Miyazaki. ^[ref]

Died April 7th, 2010 at 37 years old in Hiroshima Municipal Stadium (subarachnoid hemorrhage). ^[ref]

Iva Prandzheva

Bulgarian athlete.

Born February 15th, 1972 (age 54 years) in Plovdiv.

Matthew Breeze

Australian soccer referee.

Born June 10th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Sydney.

Benedek Jávor

Hungarian biologist, environmentalist, politician.

Born July 2nd, 1972 (age 53 years) in Budapest.

Miroslav Hlinka

Czechoslovak ice hockey player (1972–2014).

Born August 30th, 1972 in Trenčín.

Died September 14th, 2014 at 42 years old in Banská Bystrica (hanging to death).

Uvis Helmanis

Latvian basketball player (born 1972).

Born June 10th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Talsi.

Mustapha Adib

Lebanese academic, diplomat, politician.

Born August 30th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Tripoli.

Steinar Ege

Norwegian handball player.

Born April 10th, 1972 (age 54 years) in Kristiansand.

Yevhen Nyshchuk

Ukrainian theater and cinema actor.

Born December 29th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Sam Griffiths

Australian equestrian.

Born May 27th, 1972 (age 53 years) in Melbourne.