About the day » Monday January 24, 1972Calender converter

• Miranda Behlulli, Hellevoetsluis, Neth
• Adrianus Johannes Simon Groen, Harenkarspel
• Ilse Aerts, Geel († 2012)
• Herman Cornelis (Herco) Terweij, Utrecht

• Betty Larene CANNON (45), California, United States of America
• Aaltje Haverland (72)
• Antje Oebeles van der Kooi (79), Bergum
• Antje Oebeles van der Kooi (79), Bergum
• Antonetta Antonia Maria WILLEMSEN (70), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje van der Kooi (79), Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van Dongen (84), Rotterdam
• Antonius Op De Kamp (88)
• Carrie Evans, Pitt County N. Carolina
• Aart Groenendijk (55), Heinenoord, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1969 » Yoo Ho-jeong, South Korean actress
• 1970 » Matthew Lillard, American actor
• 1970 » Neil Johnson, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1970 » Roberto Bonano, Argentine footballer
• 1971 » José Carlos Fernandez, Bolivian footballer
• 1972 » Beth Hart, American blues-rock singer and piano player
• 1974 » Cyril Despres, French rally racer
• 1974 » Ed Helms, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Melissa Tkautz, Australian actress and singer
• 1974 » Rokia Traoré, Malian singer

• 1962 » Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1962 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Stanley Lord, English naval captain (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Winston Churchill, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1966 » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Caresse Crosby, American fashion designer and publisher, co-founded the Black Sun Press (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Bill W., American activist, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1973 » J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)
• 1975 » Larry Fine, American comedian (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (b. 1918)

• 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.
• April 16 » Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• July 1 » The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
• August 22 » Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• November 29 » Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
• 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 January 24, 1972 was between 0.3 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.