About the day » Wednesday November 1, 1972Calender converter

• John Ray Kittrell <K BdTxBI |||>0 fr 1, Cooke County, Texas († 1972)
• Anneke Koerts Hellinga, Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1972)
• ronnie henricus (ron) basten, helden
• Jonah Ray Kittrell <K BdTxBI>0 fr 1, Cooke County, Texas
• Fransiscus Maria Laurentius Kicken, Meerssen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Roy Kennis
• James Ray Kittrell <K BdTxBI |||>0 fr 1, Cooke County, Texas († 1972)
• Mark Marinus Johannes Edelbroek, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• John Ray Kittrell <K BdTxBI ||| FgTXBu>0 fr 1, Cooke County, Texas († 1972)
• Daniëlle Govaerts († 1973)

• Bonno de Goederen (79), Rotterdam
• Anna Elisabeth Schilling (65), Velsen, Nederland
• Arie De Nekker (58)
• Adrianus Marinus van den Kleijenberg (60), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Gils (76), Raamsdonksveer
• Antje VAN DER NEUT (87), Boskoop,Zuid-Holland,NEDERLAND
• Bonno Goederen de (79), Rotterdam
• Alijda van Kolfschooten (85)
• Anna Maria Quasten (73), Amsterdam, Nederland
• AALBERT VAN DE SCHEUR (79), Lienden

• 1969 » Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1970 » Sherwin Campbell, Barbadian cricketer
• 1972 » Jenny McCarthy, American actress and model
• 1972 » Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1972 » Toni Collette, Australian actress
• 1973 » Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Indian model and actress.
• 1973 » Geoff Horsfield, English footballer and manager
• 1974 » V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
• 1975 » Bo Bice, American singer and musician
• 1975 » Keryn Jordan, South African footballer († 2013)

• 1962 » Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Georgios Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 134th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Robert MacArthur, Canadian-American ecologist and academic (b. 1930)
• 1972 » Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (b. 1902)
• 1982 » James Broderick, American actor and director (b. 1927)
• 1982 » King Vidor, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1983 » Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch-Swiss musicologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Norman Krasna, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)

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.
• January 11 » East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• May 13 » The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
• May 30 » In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• July 23 » The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
• November 10 » Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

The temperature on November 1, 1972 was between 2.6 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.