About the day » Thursday November 2, 1972Calender converter

• Martine Johanne van der Wal, Leiden, zuid-Holland, nederland
• Lisette Schoonens († 2005)

• Bartel Jacob de Jonge (72), Zierikzee Schouwen-Duiveland Zeeland Nederland
• Cornelia Lutgarda Josephine Gribnau (80), Gaanderen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aafje Bosma (73)
• Arie Breed, Fairview, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Barendina van Engelen (82), Hilversum
• Charles Augusta Johnson (79), SAN DIEGO, SAN DIEGO, CA
• Cornelis Johannes de Keyzer (61), Halsteren,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Verkuijl (87), Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barendina VAN ENGELEN (81), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Beryl Elizabeth (Betty) CHENOWETH (47), Camberwell, Victoria, Australia

• 1972 » Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer and coach
• 1972 » Marion Posch, Italian snowboarder
• 1972 » Samantha Womack, British actress, singer and director
• 1972 » Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 » Ben Graham, Australian footballer
• 1973 » Marisol Nichols, American actress
• 1974 » Nelly, American rapper
• 1974 » Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
• 1974 » Prodigy, American rapper († 2017)
• 1974 » Sofia Polgar, Hungarian chess player

• 1963 » Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Ngô Đình Nhu, Vietnamese activist, archivist, politician, and tactical strategist (b. 1910)
• 1966 » Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1966 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1970 » Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal (b. 1895)
• 1971 » Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
• 1975 » Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (b. 1914)

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 13 » Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
• May 6 » Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
• July 11 » The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
• September 4 » The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. As of 2018, it is the longest running game show on American television.
• November 8 » American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches, initially transmitting to 365 Teleservice Cable subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. First operating as a Northeastern U.S.-based regional service, HBO was one of the first cable-originated television channels. HBO's inaugural programming that evening consisted of its first event telecast—an NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks, and its first movie presentation—the 1971 Paul Newman–Henry Fonda film Sometimes a Great Notion.
• November 28 » Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.

The temperature on November 2, 1972 was between 6.4 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.