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• Eelco Felser, Middelburg
• sabine zegers
• Mark Lormans, Weert (NL) († 2021)

• Dimphna Klous (79), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Herkes (78)
• Adriaan de Glopper (88), Zierikzee, Zeeland, Nederland
• Durkje JANSEN (82), Beetsterzwaag, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antonius Johannes van Vilsteren (69), Voorburg
• Alphonse Marie Joseph François Antoine Ghislain de POTTER (89), Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode, 21014, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Cornelia Lena Toornvliet (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Antonius Dekkers (62), Blerick, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Christina Johanna Bovenschen (70)
• Anna Maaike de Zeeuw (Zeeuw,de Seeuw,de Seeu) (48)

• 1965 » Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author and academic
• 1966 » Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer and manager
• 1966 » Sharon Cuneta, Filipino singer and actress
• 1967 » A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist
• 1968 » John Singleton, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1969 » Norman Reedus, American actor and model
• 1970 » Julie Chen, American television journalist, presenter, and producer
• 1970 » Radoslav Látal, Czech footballer and manager
• 1973 » Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player
• 1976 » Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player

• 1966 » Jean Lurçat, French painter (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1901)
• 1974 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 1990 » Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 » Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938)

• 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.
• July 11 » The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
• September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
• September 4 » Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
• October 11 » A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.
• November 28 » Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
• December 26 » Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

The temperature on January 6, 1972 was between -1.2 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.