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• Elizabeth Bridget Josephine Roderick, Camberwell, London, England († 1973)
• Sandra Ruyloft, Kolwezi, Congo († 2012)
• Ray van Hoorn, Maastricht,6201,Limburg,Nederland
• Martinus Johannes Maria van Hasselt, Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)

• Anna Maria Overmars (77)
• Cornelia Luijken (72), Breda
• Anna Margaretha Heijne (86), Schoonebeek
• Angélica Selhorst (82), Armazém, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Cornelis van Verseveld (71), Erichem
• Benjamin 'Aaron' Rodriguez Pareira
• Anna Cornelia Hubertina Borkelmans (75), Maaseik, Provincie Limburg, België
• Dirk Douwe Groen (88), Rotterdam
• Anna Margaretha Heijne (Heijnen, Heine) (86), Schoonebeek, 7761, Nederland
• Christiaan Bols (67), Hoogeveen

• 1971 » Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1971 » Leslie Grossman, American actress
• 1971 » Midori Gotō, Japanese-American violinist and educator
• 1971 » Neil Fallon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 » Simon Charlton, English footballer and manager
• 1972 » Cristian Dulca, Romanian footballer
• 1972 » Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Maxi Mounds, American nude big-bust model and pornographic actress
• 1972 » Persia White, American actress
• 1972 » Rodolfo Falcón, Cuban swimmer

• 1967 » Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (b. 1893)
• 1970 » Ülo Sooster, Estonian painter (b. 1924)
• 1971 » Mikhail Yangel, Soviet missile designer (b. 1911)
• 1972 » Johnny Mantz, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1973 » Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
• 1973 » Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1973 » Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (b. 1891)
• 1975 » Vladimir Herzog, Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1937)
• 1976 » Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (b. 1903)

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.
• January 11 » East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• 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.
• February 22 » The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
• March 2 » The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
• May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
• November 21 » Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic.

The temperature on October 25, 1972 was between 2.7 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.