About the day » Sunday June 11, 1972Calender converter

• Arvid Riem, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1998)
• Jan Gevers
• Karin Josefina Maria (gemini) Prinsen, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1972)
• Bertus Boudewijn Cnossen († 1974)
• Monique Theresia Maria (gemini) Prinsen, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1972)
• Jeroen Alfonsus Maas
• Stephen Wayne Thompson, Greenbrae, Marin County, California († 1972)
• Michael van Bokhoven, Auckland, Nieuw Zeeland († 2020)

• Besty Lucy Mac Gillarvry (81), Den Haag
• Betsij Lucij Mac Gillavry (81), `s-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Johanna Hendrika Massuger (85), Nijmegen
• Anna Aleida (Annie) Eijnwachter (53), 's-Gravenhage
• Berend Kist (82)
• Cornelia Anthonia van Rijn (82), Wijk Bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Anthonia van Rijn (82), Wijk bij Duurstede, Nederland
• Cora May Vernon (81), Kaufman, Kaufman, Texas, United States
• Anna Maria Rentink (84), Lichtenvoorde,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius C.A.M. Martens (26), Gilze en Rijen

• 1969 » Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player († 2002)
• 1969 » Olaf Kapagiannidis, German footballer
• 1969 » Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer
• 1971 » Kenjiro Tsuda, Japanese voice actor
• 1971 » Liz Kendall, British politician
• 1971 » Mark Richardson, New Zealand cricketer
• 1971 » Vladimir Gaidamașciuc, Moldovan footballer
• 1972 » Stephen Kearney, New Zealand rugby league player and coach
• 1973 » José Manuel Abundis, Mexican footballer and coach
• 1974 » Fragiskos Alvertis, Greek basketball player, coach, and manager

• 1962 » Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)
• 1963 » Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)
• 1965 » José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
• 1965 » Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1898)
• 1976 » Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (b. 1893)
• 1979 » John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)

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.
• March 22 » In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
• April 10 » Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
• April 16 » Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 23 » The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, surviving by cannibalism.

The temperature on June 11, 1972 was between 6.4 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.