About the day » Sunday December 3, 1972Calender converter

• Ronald Jurrie Jetienus (Ronnie) Hobers, Emmen
• Winniefred Wiedeman († 2014)
• Winifred Wiedeman († 2014)
• Robert Mulders († 2010)

• Alberta Francisca de Winter (61)
• Cornelis Gouda (84), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Aagje Kleijn (80), Oudenbosch
• Bulah Mildred Canter (89), McCracken, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Armand Petrus Van Reusel (57)
• Barend van Harskamp (65), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bethie Willie Youngblood (80), Logan Cnty, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Billie Jason Webb [Bu] (56)
• Arie Straatman (43), Nij Beets, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Claude Elmo Robbins (74), Luling, Caldwell, Texas

• 1970 » Lindsey Hunter, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 » Paul Byrd, American baseball player
• 1971 » Frank Sinclair, English-Jamaican footballer and manager
• 1971 » Heiko Herrlich, German footballer and manager
• 1971 » Henk Timmer, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1971 » Vernon White, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
• 1972 » Danilo Goffi, Italian runner
• 1973 » Charl Willoughby, South African cricketer
• 1973 » Holly Marie Combs, American actress and producer
• 1973 » MC Frontalot, American rapper

• 1956 » Alexander Rodchenko, Russian sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1908)
• 1967 » Harry Wismer, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1913)
• 1972 » William Manuel Johnson, American bassist (b. 1872)
• 1973 » Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico, 1952-1958 (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Emile Christian, American trombonist, cornet player, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1979 » Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Oswald Mosley, English lieutenant, fascist, and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Walter Knott, American farmer, founded Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889)
• 1984 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)

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 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.
• April 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
• May 30 » The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• June 29 » The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.

The temperature on December 3, 1972 was between 4.0 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.