About the day » Thursday July 13, 1972Calender converter

• Darby Wulffers, Newton, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Robbert van Brummelen, Gilze en Rijen († 1973)
• Jason Johannes Grobben, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States († 1972)
• Brian Keith Day, Ashdown (Little River County), Arkansas († 1997)
• Lars Luijsterburg, Huijbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1985)
• Dean Leslie (Squeaker) MARTIN, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia († 2004)
• Renk Diepstra, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1993)
• Theo VAN HEUSDEN, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Darby D. Wulffers, Newton, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Sabine Antonia Cornelia Maria Loomans, Valkenswaard, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1972)

• Cornelia Mosselman (85), Schagerbrug
• Berend Andries Scholte (84), Boelenslaan
• Albert Erwin Simons (66), Amsterdam
• Arnoldus Adrianus Olsthoorn (82), Schiedam
• Bertus van Exter (84)
• Cornelius Johannes Van Tonder (78)
• Adriaan Baauw (76), Vlaardingen
• Albertha Risseeuw (63), Oostburg (Sluis), Zeeland, Nederland
• "Marthe" Marie Marguerite Claire Kirgener de Planta (44), Rombas, Moselle, France
• Adolf Theodoor Johan Middelkoop (44), Kortenhoef

• 1969 » Brad Godden, Australian rugby league player
• 1969 » Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian, and physician
• 1969 » Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan political scientist and politician
• 1970 » Andrei Tivontchik, German pole vaulter and trainer
• 1971 » Mark Neeld, Australian footballer and coach
• 1972 » Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler
• 1974 » Deborah Cox, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1974 » Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
• 1975 » Diego Spotorno, Ecuadorian actor
• 1975 » Mariada Pieridi, Cypriot singer-songwriter

• 1965 » Photis Kontoglou, Greek painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1970 » Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Willy Fritsch, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (b. 1884)
• 1976 » Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (b. 1915)
• 1979 » Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1980 » Seretse Khama, Botswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)

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 29 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
• June 17 » Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process.
• June 30 » The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
• July 11 » The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
• August 14 » An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany, due to an in-flight fire, killing 156.
• December 13 » Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.

The temperature on July 13, 1972 was between 7.6 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.