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• Franciscus Severinus Petrus Buijk, Woensdrecht,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)
• Monique Bouma († 1985)

• Cornelis van Straaten (93), Amsterdam (NH/NL)
• Adriana Groenenberg (78)
• Anna Maria Philippina Leonora van der Rij (73), Den Haag
• Catharina van Roon (77)
• Cornelis Jozias Manneke (62), Groede
• Amalia Rijkschroeff (69), Maastricht, Nederland
• Antonius Verver (66)
• Chrissina Johanna Leijssenaar (79), Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus Wirken (66)
• Andries Jannes Goossen (89), Roden

• 1971 » Francesco Toldo, Italian footballer
• 1971 » Jüri Reinvere, Estonian-German composer and poet
• 1971 » Mine Yoshizaki, Japanese illustrator
• 1971 » Rachel McQuillan, Australian tennis player
• 1971 » Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor and singer
• 1972 » Sergejs Žoltoks, Latvian ice hockey player († 2004)
• 1973 » Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer and manager
• 1973 » Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
• 1973 » Lee Steele, English footballer
• 1973 » Monica Seles, Serbian-American tennis player

• 1966 » Giles Cooper, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1966 » L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
• 1969 » José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (b. 1911)
• 1969 » Kliment Voroshilov, Ukrainian-Russian marshal and politician, 3rd Head of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1881)
• 1974 » Max Weber, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French author, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Wallace Harrison, American architect, co-founded Harrison & Abramovitz (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Marty Feldman, English actor and comedian (b. 1933)

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.
• 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 21 » The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
• July 21 » The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
• August 3 » The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• November 11 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
• December 18 » Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.

The temperature on December 2, 1972 was between 6.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.