About the day » Wednesday February 9, 1972Calender converter

• Arjan Heerink, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1972)
• Tom Wanders, Ulft
• jessie antonia maria (jessie) van de waarenburg, meijel
• Erwin Dreijling, Arnhem († 1978)
• Carlo Tesser, Wognum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1972)

• Anna Hubertina Clermonts (81), Maastricht
• Adriana Elizabeth Boesbergen (76), Gouda
• Anna Catharina van Dinther (73), Nijmegen
• Ada Louisa Buttfield (89), Norwood, South Australia, Australia
• Carl Edwin CRAM (82), Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States
• Egbertus Lares (54), Deventer
• "Brigitte" Agnes Mabella Dorothea Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (83), Wien, Autriche
• Cornelis FNCz do Slothouber (65), Arnhem
• Anna Hubertina Clermonts (81), Maastricht
• Ariaantje Wolvetang (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1970 » Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 » Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1971 » Matt Gogel, American golfer
• 1972 » Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1973 » Colin Egglesfield, American actor
• 1973 » Makoto Shinkai, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1973 » Svetlana Boginskaya, Belarusian gymnast
• 1974 » Amber Valletta, American model
• 1974 » Brad Maynard, American football player
• 1974 » Jordi Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1965 » Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and educator (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (b. 1884)
• 1969 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1981 » M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)

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 1 » Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• February 22 » The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
• March 1 » The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
• May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
• July 23 » The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• December 29 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.

The temperature on February 9, 1972 was between -1.2 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.