About the day » Sunday February 6, 1972Calender converter

• Arno N J Somers, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Kimberly Sue Folkerts
• Alfred Boer, Vlagtwedde Groningen Nederland

• Adriana Christina Roth (85), Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Auke Hansma (62), Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart Knikker (83), Oldebroek, Gld. Nederland
• Annie Goodfellow (85)
• Anna Antonia Maria Poggeman (72)
• Annechiene Janke Brouwer (72), Hengelo (NL)
• Antonius Hubertus Nicolaas Van De Meeberg (75)
• Antonius Egbertus Boerkamp (85)
• Antonius Egbertus Boerkamp (85)
• Anna Josephina Rapaille (81), Heerlen

• 1969 » David Hayter, American actor and screenwriter
• 1969 » Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1969 » Tim Sherwood, English international footballer midfielder and manager
• 1970 » Per Frandsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1970 » Tim Herron, American golfer
• 1971 » Brad Hogg, Australian cricketer
• 1971 » Carlos Rogers, American basketball player
• 1972 » David Binn, American football player
• 1972 » Stefano Bettarini, Italian footballer
• 1974 » Aljo Bendijo, Filipino journalist

• 1958 » victims of the Munich air disaster
• 1963 » Piero Manzoni, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1933)
• 1964 » Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
• 1967 » Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
• 1972 » Julian Steward, American anthropologist (b. 1902)
• 1976 » Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 1976 » Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Hugo Montenegro, American composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Ben Nicholson, British painter (b. 1894)
• 1985 » James Hadley Chase, English-Swiss soldier and author (b. 1906)

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. 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.
• 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.
• May 15 » In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become president.
• July 1 » The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
• September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
• September 15 » A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
• November 10 » Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

The temperature on February 6, 1972 was between 1.2 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.