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• Ietje Moes († 1972)
• Jeanine Isabelle Henriëtte Keuker
• Cameron Mitchelle Mulder, jackson, MN
• Monique Jacoba Maria Kroon, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland

• Cornelis Brink (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Cornelia Maria Koolen (30), Ossendrecht,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Couwenberg (61), Waalwijk
• Cornelis de BORST (84), Den haag
• Raaymakers Carolus Leopold (85), Mortsel, Antwerpen, België
• Bessie Looper (78)
• Anna Helena - Maria Helena Roesler (73)
• Aart Wenneker (64), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Agnita Kramer (75), Huizen, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Beurden (79), Heerlen

• 1970 » Tim Story, American director and producer
• 1971 » Allan Nielsen, Danish international footballer, midfielder and manager
• 1971 » Annabeth Gish, American actress
• 1972 » Common, American rapper and actor
• 1973 » Bobby Jackson, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 » Edgar Davids, Surinamese born Dutch international footballer midfielder and manager
• 1974 » Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player and sportscaster
• 1975 » Mark Clattenburg, English football referee
• 1976 » Danny Masterson, American actor and producer
• 1976 » Troy Hudson, American basketball player and rapper

• 1962 » Anne Acheson, Irish sculptor († 1882)
• 1965 » Fan Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1882)
• 1965 » Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1972 » Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 » Ole Haugsrud, American sports executive (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Paul Citroen, German-Dutch illustrator and educator (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Odette Hallowes, French nurse and spy (b. 1912)

• 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.
• March 1 » The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
• July 1 » The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
• July 21 » The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
• August 11 » Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
• 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 23 » A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.

The temperature on March 13, 1972 was between -2.3 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.