About the day » Sunday March 12, 1972Calender converter

• Gabrielle Margaretha Adriana GEERTS, Dordrecht (NL) († 1972)
• Tanja Andrea Van der Veeke, Delft († 2006)
• André Sander Welling, Hilversum († 2014)
• Gabrielle Margaretha Adriana Geerts, Dordrecht, Nederland († 1972)
• Hans Dreijer, Arnhem († 2003)

• Andrew Faye Meyers (64), Humbold (Canada)
• Cornelis Nicolaas van 't Hoff (64), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Leeuwarden (78)
• Cornelia Maria van Vulpen (67), Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Cornelis Teeuwen (78), Rotterdam
• Catharina Johanna Elisabeth Schaapsmeerders (46), Uden
• Dina Margareta Olofsson (72), Gäddede, Frostviken, Jämtland (Z)
• Charles Carhart Jr (76), Coeymans, Albany County, New York, United States of America
• Antonius Nicolaas Uiterwijk (73), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Christiaan Mekke (65), Amsterdam, Nederland

• 1970 » Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter
• 1970 » Karen Bradley, British politician
• 1970 » Mathias Grönberg, Swedish golfer
• 1970 » Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 » Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper
• 1971 » Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper
• 1972 » Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player
• 1974 » Charles Akonnor, former Ghanaian footballer
• 1974 » Steve Price, Australian rugby league player
• 1974 » Walid Badir, former Israeli footballer

• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

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 10 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
• January 30 » The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
• May 21 » Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
• 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.
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.

The temperature on March 12, 1972 was between -4.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.