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Who died in April 1972

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah

19091972

Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary who led Ghana to independence and championed Pan-Africanism

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

18991972

Japanese novelist and short story writer, known for his spare, lyrical prose and as the first Japanese Nobel laureate in Literature

Heinrich Lübke

Heinrich Lübke

18941972

German politician and engineer who served as President of West Germany from 1959 to 1969

Franz Halder

Franz Halder

18841972

German general and chief of staff who directed Operation Barbarossa and was instrumental in the radicalisation of warfare on the Eastern Front, later contributing to the myth of the clean Wehrmacht