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• Marco Dokter, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2004)
• Jan Peter van der Bijl, Heeg, Friesland, Nederland († 2001)

• Antonius Cornelius Zehenpfenning (79), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Antje Joekes Elzenga (80), Kollum, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Gestel (55), Deventer
• Antje Jannetje van der Elst (72), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Anna Coleta Keersmaekers (84), Mol (België)
• Adriaan Boudewijn Pijnenburg (45), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Halfweeg (90), Schoorl
• Arthur R Goss (75), New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Elizabeth Vos (71), De Cocksdorp (Texel, NH)
• Aza Goudriaan (64), papendrecht (zuid holland)

• 1968 » Billy Crudup, American actor
• 1969 » Sugizo, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1970 » Beck, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 » Sylvain Gaudreault, Canadian educator and politician
• 1970 » Todd Martin, American tennis player and coach
• 1971 » Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player and coach
• 1972 » Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 » Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor
• 1972 » Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
• 1974 » Hu Liang, Chinese field hockey player

• 1965 » Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (b. 1881)
• 1968 » Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882)
• 1971 » Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer and politician (b. 1936)
• 1973 » Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Education Minister of Israel (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)
• 1979 » Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
• 1979 » Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

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 15 » Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
• February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
• May 15 » In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become president.
• September 30 » Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
• December 19 » Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
• December 26 » Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

The temperature on July 8, 1972 was between 12.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 10.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.