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• Erwin de Leeuw
• Elisabeth Sophia van den Boogaard, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1994)
• Christiana Alexandri, Limassol (Cyprus)
• Remko Snoeijs, Breda († 2018)
• Berthelien Schonewille, Nieuwlande, Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1972)
• Iris Manon Al († 2021)

• Albertus Quirinus Schoordijk (62), Losser, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Stehouwer (66), Rotterdam
• Dionysius Alphonsus Bens (83), Geel, België
• Catharina de Kroon (74), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Hendrika Heijmans (84), Leiden
• Ada Dick Godbey [WkWkWk-sWks4]Wk1 (73), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Andreas Jakob van der Ven (66), Kleve, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Christina Mens (78), Enkhuizen
• Anna Petronella Odilia Driessen (63), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Clasina Johanna Vogelaar (62), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland

• 1969 » Andrew Breitbart, American journalist, author, and publisher († 2012)
• 1969 » Gabriel Batistuta, Argentinian footballer
• 1970 » Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor († 2000)
• 1970 » Yasuyuki Kazama, Japanese racing driver
• 1971 » Harald Brattbakk, Norwegian footballer and pilot
• 1971 » Michael C. Hall, American actor and producer
• 1972 » Christian Ziege, German footballer
• 1973 » Óscar Pérez Rojas, Mexican footballer
• 1973 » Andrew DeClercq, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 » Walter McCarty, American basketball player and coach

• 1959 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1966 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
• 1970 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)
• 1981 » Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American engineer and businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1908)

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.
• April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
• April 13 » Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
• April 25 » Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
• May 8 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
• June 8 » Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
• September 4 » The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. As of 2018, it is the longest running game show on American television.

The average temperature on February 1, 1972 was -3.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.