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• Astrid Adriana Cornelia van Elst, Utrecht
• Thibaud France Benoît Jacqueline van LIDTH de JEUDE
• Monique Martine Jacqueline Markus, Woerden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• John Tieck, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2002)
• Arnold Tuitman, Veendam
• Hermanna Frederika Baas, Bunschoten-Spakenburg, Utrecht, Nederland

• Adriana Jantina Dam (43)
• Cornelia Catharina Maria van den Eng (66), Gouda
• Adelheid Lubbers (83), Nieuw-Schoonebeek, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arie van den Berg (83), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Anne (Harry) Sipkes Bosch (75), Davis County, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• DeVera E. Edzards (57), Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• Cornelis Johannes van Haastrecht (58), Nieuwe Wetering, Netherlands
• Antonia Berendina Pierik (77), Goor, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Caroline Petronella Steenvorden (88)
• Antonius Hermanus Veenhuis (62), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1957 » Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore politician; 5th Senior Minister of Singapore
• 1958 » Kurt Rambis, American basketball player and coach; four-time NBA Finals champion
• 1962 » Birgit Fischer, German kayaker; winner of eight Olympic gold medals
• 1963 » Paul O'Neill, American baseball player and sportscaster; five-time World Series champion
• 1967 » Ed Balls, British politician; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1968 » Oumou Sangaré, Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician
• 1971 » Sean Astin, American actor, director and producer
• 1974 » Dominic Raab, British politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1981 » Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer; the most successful Asian player with 19 career trophies
• 1982 » Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player; winner of the 2015 US Open

• 1963 » Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895)
• 1964 » Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1887)
• 1964 » Grace Metalious, American author (b. 1924)
• 1970 » Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and academic (b. 1903)
• 1971 » Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1897)
• 1978 » Daniel James, Jr., American general and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1980 » Robert Hayden, American poet and academic (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Tennessee Williams, American playwright, and poet (b. 1911)

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.
• 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.
• May 30 » In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• June 30 » The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
• August 3 » The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
• November 21 » Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic.

The temperature on February 25, 1972 was between -0.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.