About the day » Wednesday January 19, 1972Calender converter

• Jennie Sipkes Oppedijk, Bolsward, Gem. Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland († 2009)
• Maddy Zekhuis, Geesteren († 2004)
• Roy ter Haar, Albergen,, Overijssel, Nederland († 2012)
• Maria Adriana Johanna Faes, Alphen en Riel
• David Joseph Smith, Gateshead, Durham († 2002)
• Leonardo Michels, Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Hajo Cornelis Beucker Andreae, Leiden,Gemeente Leiden,South Holland,Netherlands († 1973)
• Jozef Hermsen († 1972)

• Anne Annema (65), Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Amadeus Jozef DE NYS (69), Beveren-Waas,9120,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Carl E. Winchell (74), Allegan (Allegan County) (Michigan)
• Albert Jan Reilink (98), Bathmen
• Catharina JOHANNES Draaisma (82), Oegstgeest, Nederland
• Adriana Bijl van der (76), Alphen ad Rijn, ZH, Nederland
• Aloisia Buchegger (73)
• Callie M Cothran (84)
• Bernard Gerrit van Teulingen (63), Den Helder
• Aafke van der Lei (80), Drachten

• 1970 » Steffen Freund, German footballer defensive midfielder and manager
• 1971 » John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 » Phil Nevin, American baseball player
• 1971 » Shawn Wayans, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Ron Killings, American wrestler and rapper
• 1972 » Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player and coach
• 1972 » Troy Wilson, Australian footballer and race car driver
• 1972 » Yoon Hae-young, South Korean actress
• 1973 » Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
• 1973 » Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer and coach

• 1963 » Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
• 1968 » Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1879)
• 1972 » Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
• 1973 » Max Adrian, Irish-English actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (b. 1889)
• 1976 » Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Moritz Jahn, German novelist and poet (b. 1884)
• 1980 » William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1898)

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. Wendy
11. Patricia
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 1 » Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• May 5 » Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
• September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
• September 11 » The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.
• November 8 » American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches, initially transmitting to 365 Teleservice Cable subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. First operating as a Northeastern U.S.-based regional service, HBO was one of the first cable-originated television channels. HBO's inaugural programming that evening consisted of its first event telecast—an NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks, and its first movie presentation—the 1971 Paul Newman–Henry Fonda film Sometimes a Great Notion.
• November 28 » Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.

The temperature on January 19, 1972 was between -3.5 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.