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• Fatima bouyaziden, Zeist
• Damond Mark Dotson, Tyler, Smith, Texas, The United States of America († 2022)
• Ingrid van de Sande († 1980)
• Joan Martijn SMITHUIS, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Remon Rieu, Haarlem († 1989)

• Charles W A JENSON (77), Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia
• Christine Katherine Charlotte Bormann (81), St Louis, MO
• Christiaan Albert Timmer (75), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Aren Hollaar (85), Middelharnis, gemeente Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Petrus Klercq (66), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Adrianus Hellemons (64), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Petrus Klercq de (66), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Alphonse Coene (74), Borgerhout
• Annigje van de Graaf (79), Papendrecht
• Bep Schijven (53), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1969 » Thomas Jane, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 » Lea Salonga, Filipino actress and singer
• 1971 » Super Caló, Mexican wrestler
• 1972 » Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
• 1972 » Michael Chang, American tennis player and coach
• 1973 » Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 » Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist († 2013)
• 1973 » Scott Phillips, American drummer and producer
• 1974 » Chris Moyles, English radio and television host
• 1974 » James Blunt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1965 » Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)
• 1971 » Frédéric Mariotti, French actor (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
• 1973 » Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Winthrop Rockefeller, American colonel and politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
• 1976 » Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Florence Ballard, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1980 » Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, poet and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1982 » Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)

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 26 » JAT Fight 367 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb, killing 27 of the 28 people on board the DC-9. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survives with critical injuries.
• February 21 » The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
• April 13 » The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
• May 15 » In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become president.
• 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.
• July 23 » The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.

The temperature on February 22, 1972 was between 2.6 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.