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• NN Doornbos, Groningen († 1972)
• Leendert Adrianus Domburg, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)

• Clara Buchholz (84), Parkersburg, Butler Co., Iowa
• Antoinette de Rochechouart de Mortemart (79)
• Amé Bracke (35), Sluiskil, Zeeland, Nederland
• Christiaan Markus (82), Hilversum
• Adriana Johanna van Loenen (10), Leidschendam
• Albert Logtenberg (71), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antoinette Maria Virginia Victoria van Rochechouart de Mortemart (79), Senlis, Picardië
• Cornelia Hopmans (60), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anneke (Anke) Moed (76), Hoensbroek, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antoinette de Rochechouart (79)

• 1970 » Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager
• 1970 » Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper
• 1970 » Neera Tanden, American lawyer and policy analyst
• 1970 » Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 » Joe Bravo, American jockey
• 1972 » Bente Skari, Norwegian skier
• 1972 » James Duval, American actor and producer
• 1973 » Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
• 1973 » Mark Huizinga, Dutch martial artist
• 1973 » Tim Stimpson, English rugby player

• 1961 » Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (b. 1880)
• 1965 » Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
• 1966 » Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Erna Mohr, German zoologist (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 1973 » Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
• 1979 » Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)

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.
• March 30 » Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
• June 23 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
• June 30 » The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
• September 5 » Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
• October 11 » A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.
• December 18 » Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.

The temperature on September 10, 1972 was between 7.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.