page_title: 1972
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 / Births / September
caption_attribution_description: Dita Von Teese Cannes 2007
context_page_description: 1972 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
  Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.
context_section_description: September 2 – Sergejs Žoltoks, Latvian hockey player (d. 2004)
  September 4 – Françoise Yip, Chinese-Canadian actress
  September 6
  Idris Elba, English actor
  Anika Noni Rose, American actress
  September 8
  Giovanni Frezza, Italian actor
  Os du Randt, South African rugby player
  Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor
  September 10
  Bledar Sejko, Albanian guitarist, composer, and singer
  Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
  Rio Tahara, Japanese snowboarder
  September 12
  Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-American online activist, writer and blogger (d. 2015)
  Budi Putra, Indonesian journalist, writer and blogger
  September 13 – Kelly Chen, Hong Kong actress and singer
  September 15
  Queen Letizia of Spain
  Jimmy Carr, British comedian
  September 16
  Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician (d. 2019)
  Alessandro "Lord Vampyr" Nunziati, Italian singer, record producer and writer (Theatres des Vampires, Cain, Lord Vampyr's Shadowsreign)
  Vebjørn Rodal, Norwegian Olympic athlete
  September 17 – Bobby Lee, Asian-American comedian
  September 19
  Jim Druckenmiller, National Football League quarterback
  Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player, theoretician and coach
  September 20 – Victor Ponta, 3-Time Prime Minister of Romania
  September 21
  Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)
  Erin Fitzgerald, Canadian-American voice actress
  September 23
  Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (d. 2006)
  Galit Gutman, Israeli female model
  September 25 – Emma Hannigan, Irish author (d. 2018)
  September 26
  Beto O’Rourke, American politician, representative of Texas 16th congressional district
  Shawn Stockman, American singer and musician (Boyz II Men)
  September 27 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
  September 28
  Guta Stresser, Brazilian actress
  Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist, model, and businesswoman
  September 30
  Ari Behn, Norwegian author (d. 2019)
  José Lima, Dominican baseball player (d. 2010)
  Shaan, Indian singer
caption: Dita Von Teese
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