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• Lynda Anne Scardino, New Orleans, Louisiana († 2004)
• Yvonne van der Graaf, 's-Gravenhage
• Hubertus van Outheusden, Breda († 2010)
• Ralf Antonius Petrus Maria SPRONK, Heerlen († 2008)
• Henricus Ludovic Bennenbroek, Someren († 2001)

• Antonia Doorenbos (92), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Abram Paulus Koole (84)
• Beata Claase (74), Valkenswaard
• Auguste Helene Ihlow (78)
• Alle Van Der Veen (60), Point Pleasent Beach, Ocean, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Antje van der Meulen (70), Rhenen
• Cornelia Maria Josephina van Opstal (77), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Antonius Rolink (96), Denekamp
• Blanche Maria Rogmans (69), Bloemfontein in de Republiek Zuid-Afrika
• Alida Jannetta Pieternella Bullee (79), leerdam

• 1970 » Louis Theroux, Singaporean-English journalist and producer
• 1970 » Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
• 1971 » Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper and coach
• 1971 » Tony Stewart, American race car driver
• 1972 » Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1972 » Christophe Dominici, French rugby player
• 1972 » Michael Diamond, Australian shooter
• 1973 » Nathan Long, Australian rugby league player
• 1974 » Allison Amend, American novelist and short story writer
• 1974 » Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Indian film director, writer and actor

• 1956 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
• 1961 » Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
• 1971 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)

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 17 » Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
• 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.
• April 22 » Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
• July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
• August 22 » Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• October 11 » A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.

The temperature on May 20, 1972 was between 6.9 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.