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• Natalie Posthumus, Amsterdam
• Inge Warnez, Roeselare († 1973)

• Cornelis van Oort
• Christiaan Theuns (79), Beek
• Charles Leonard Kittrell [[KB 0123 FgcCrabOTNBu]]9 "Charley" (80), Morgan County, Tennessee ql
• Engelbertus van Demen (70), Ravenstein
• Edward Workman (81), Fulton Township Cemetry, Fulton, Whiteside County, Illinois (USA)
• Andries Jansen (85), Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Chauncey Carroll Severns (63), Bolivar, Polk, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Alius H. Faber (85), Marshall Calhoun Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Margaretha Brand (79), Rhede
• Engelbertus van Demen (70), Ravenstein, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

• 1970 » Adrian Fenty, American lawyer and politician, 6th Mayor of the District of Columbia
• 1970 » Mark Reckless, English politician
• 1970 » Ulf Ekberg, Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1971 » Carole Thate, Dutch field hockey player
• 1971 » Craig Brewer, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 » Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor
• 1971 » Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1972 » Ewan Birney, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK
• 1972 » Heather Mizeur, American lawyer and politician
• 1972 » Rick Short, American baseball player

• 1961 » Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (b. 1895)
• 1972 » Janet Munro, English actress and singer (b. 1934)
• 1974 » Nikolay Kuznetsov, Soviet naval officer (b. 1904)
• 1976 » João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911)
• 1982 » Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan activist and politician (b. 1927)
• 1983 » Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani poet, historian, and politician (b. 1914)
• 1983 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer and actress (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Burr Tillstrom, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1917)

• 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 8 » Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
• April 22 » Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
• May 13 » Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
• 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.
• November 21 » Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic.
• December 30 » Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

The temperature on December 6, 1972 was between 9.4 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.