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• Token Carmen Mae Cook, Vancouver, BC, Canada († 1977)
• Token Carmen Mae COOK, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada († 1977)
• Gerrit Jan Fokkert († 2021)
• Jamie Allan Schmalzbauer, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada († 1977)

• Berentjdtje van der Kooi (90), Oostermeer, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederlan
• Catharina Maria Jozefa Antonia Jacoba IJzermans (75)
• Catharina Maria Josephina Antoinette Jacqueline Ijzermans (75), Venlo
• Assuerus Terwisscha van Scheltinga- (66), Oude Schouw, Nederland
• Baden Kitchener Roberts Badcock (71), Westbury, Tasmania, Australia
• Anna Maria Kaal (73), Venlo
• Catharina Maria Jozefa Antonia IJZERMANS (75), Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Assuerus Reins Terwisscha Van Scheltinga (66), Sneek
• Berendtje Klazes van der Kooi (90), -
• Carolina Johanna Zeldenrijk (77), Breda

• 1971 » Alan Stubbs, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1971 » Phil Bennett, English race car driver
• 1971 » Takis Gonias, Greek footballer and manager
• 1972 » Anders Iwers, Swedish bass player
• 1972 » Daniel Cavanagh, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Jarrod Moseley, Australian golfer
• 1972 » Ko So-young, South Korean model and actress
• 1972 » Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
• 1972 » Ryu Si-won, South Korean actor and singer
• 1973 » Jeff B. Davis, American comedian, actor, and singer

• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)
• 1973 » Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1973 » Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1973 » François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1973 » Margaret Wilson, American missionary and author (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)

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. David
16. Johan

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.
• 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.
• May 8 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
• May 15 » In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become president.
• June 18 » Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S. Trident crashes two minutes after take off from London's Heathrow Airport.
• December 19 » Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.

The temperature on October 6, 1972 was between 4.2 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.