About the day » Thursday February 10, 1972Calender converter

• Daniel Catharina Willem America, Heerlen († 1999)
• Johannes Schaap, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1972)
• Corina Louise Spronk, Alphen aan de Rijn
• Luc Laebens, Kortrijk († 2017)
• Anita Tuit, Pompton Plains, New Jersey (USA) († 2016)

• Alberta Diana HUNLOKE
• Aaltje van der Meulen (81), Burgum, Nederland
• Andreas Wilhelmus Claessens (82), Maastricht
• Alberta Hunloke (74)
• Arthur N Thompson (59), Shell Rock, Butler County, Iowa
• Albertus Weeda (89), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alexandra Leonarda van Bergen (72), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Petrus Schouten (61), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria Schapers (82), Rotterdam
• Verbunt (81), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1970 » Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author
• 1970 » Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author
• 1970 » Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan international footballer, central defender and manager
• 1971 » Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer († 2015)
• 1972 » Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer
• 1973 » Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician
• 1974 » Elizabeth Banks, American actress
• 1974 » Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1974 » Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
• 1974 » Ty Law, American football player

• 1956 » Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
• 1960 » Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1966 » Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (b. 1899)
• 1967 » Dionysios Kokkinos, Greek historian and author (b. 1884)
• 1975 » Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1910)
• 1992 » Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
• 1993 » Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1929)

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.
• January 30 » The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
• February 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
• March 20 » The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
• April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
• December 7 » Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
• December 23 » A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.

The temperature on February 10, 1972 was between -1.0 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.