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• Mirjam Kropmans, Rotterdam
• Henry Kap († 2009)
• Michelle Lei Dedic, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2015)

• Beulah Esther Smith (71), Kanawha, WV
• * Pieter den Outer (64), Rotterdam
• Bouwe van der Meulen (82), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Baas (76), Ridderkerk
• Bernardina Maria ter Linden (78)
• Adeline Françoise Bloem (47), 's-Gravenhage
• Alida Bol (69), Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Overbosch (40)
• Adrianus Jacobus Lansbergen (82)
• Anna Catharina Baselier (75), Wouw

• 1970 » Emmanuel Amunike, Nigerian footballer and manager
• 1970 » Rodney Dent, American basketball player
• 1971 » Dido, English singer-songwriter
• 1971 » Justin Trudeau, Canadian educator and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada
• 1972 » Mac Powell, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1972 » Qu Yunxia, Chinese runner
• 1973 » Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist and director
• 1973 » Chris Harris, American wrestler
• 1973 » Daisuke Miura, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1973 » Robbie Elliott, English footballer and coach

• 1963 » Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (b. 1881)
• 1975 » Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (b. 1906)
• 1979 » Jordi Bonet, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
• 1980 » Fred Emney, English actor and comedian (b. 1900)

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 10 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
• February 3 » The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
• February 18 » The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
• June 23 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
• July 23 » The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.

The temperature on December 25, 1972 was between -3.9 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.