972

972 (CMLXXII) was a leap year beginning on Monday of the Julian calendar, in effect on that date.

Births

• Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona.
• 27 March - Roberto II of France.
• Fujiwara no Michinobu, Japanese poet and courtier.
• Gregorio V, Pope of the Catholic Church from 996 to 999.

Deaths

• Liutprando de Cremona, historian Medieval.
• Sviatoslav I, Prince of Kiev.
• September 6 - John XIII, Pope of the Catholic Church.