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• Jason Leonard van de Kuijt, Hamilton, ON (CA) († 2001)
• Annemarie Elisabeth Janine van Wengerden († 1972)
• Miranda Aleida Kok, Amersfoort († 2010)
• Nati morto, Itapeva, São Paulo, Brasil († 1972)
• Anna H.H.M. Teeuwen, Weerselo (o) († 2009)
• John de Mol, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Johanna Hendrica Maria van den Udenhout, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1972)

• Antionius van Erp (88)
• Afra Catharina Veul (72)
• Augusta Raes (74), Rochester, Monroe, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Maria Carpentier (84), Saint-Mards-de-Fresne, Friesland, Nederland
• Arend Marten Castelein (91), Sneek
• Adrianus Timmers (67), Veghel
• Augusta de Pourtalès (86)
• Abel Polderman (86), Dordrecht, Nederland
• Aleida Hoek (76), Almelo
• Carolus Ludovicus Josephus van GUCHT (84), Merchtem, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgie

• 1970 » Dominic Purcell, English-born Irish-Australian actor and producer
• 1971 » Denise Richards, American model and actress
• 1972 » Billie Joe Armstrong, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer
• 1972 » Lars Göran Petrov, Swedish singer and drummer
• 1972 » Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
• 1972 » Taylor Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1972 » Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model and businesswoman
• 1973 » Goran Bunjevčević, Serbian FR Yugoslavia international footballer, defender († 2018)
• 1973 » Raphaël Ibañez, French rugby player
• 1974 » Kaoru, Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1962 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1970 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1972 » Friday Hassler, American race car driver (b. 1935)
• 1977 » Janani Luwum, Ugandan archbishop and saint (b. 1922)
• 1979 » William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)

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 11 » East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• April 6 » Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
• May 5 » Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
• May 30 » In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• 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.
• December 30 » Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

The temperature on February 17, 1972 was between 3.3 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.