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• Ingrid Josephina Maria van Vlijmen, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Michael Dain Newhouse, Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Alfred Alton Franklin III <K ObUSS>1 "Trip", Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida († 2011)

• Aantje van den Heuvel (78), Streefkerk
• Antonius Vos (60), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christian W Schaa (67)
• Catharina Hillegonda Enschede (82)
• Anna van der Lee (73), Waalwijk
• Agnes Maria Catharina Hulsmans (84)
• Catharina Hillegonda Enschedé (82), Amsterdam
• Claude WELLS (62)
• Arie Simon Hoogendam (75), Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Johan Bassant (79), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1970 » Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 » Derrick Green, American singer
• 1971 » Gary Barlow, English singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1971 » Ger McDonnell, Irish mountaineer and engineer († 2008)
• 1971 » Jung Woong-in, South Korean actor
• 1971 » Questlove, American drummer, DJ, and producer
• 1971 » Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna
• 1972 » Nikki Haley, American accountant and politician, 116th Governor of South Carolina
• 1973 » Queen Mathilde of Belgium
• 1973 » Stephen Crabb, Scottish-Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales

• 1962 » Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922)
• 1971 » Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, 151st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)
• 1980 » William Roberts, English soldier and painter (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
• 1984 » Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)

1. Jan
2. Richard
3. Johannes
4. Marco
5. Peter
6. Jeroen
7. Robert
8. Michael
9. Patrick
10. Ronald
11. Pieter
12. Hendrik
13. Marcel
14. Michel
15. Johan
16. David

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Johanna
4. Monique
5. Esther
6. Saskia
7. Miranda
8. Elisabeth
9. Bianca
10. Patricia
11. Wendy
12. Ingrid
13. Jennifer
14. Nicole
15. Karin
16. Anna

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
• February 3 » The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
• February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
• May 8 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
• May 21 » Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
• June 8 » Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
• December 23 » A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.

The temperature on January 20, 1972 was between -1.3 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain during 12.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.