About the day » Tuesday March 14, 1972Calender converter

• Jeroen Borghuis († 1972)
• Sabiene Koch, Sittard,, Limburg, Nederland († 2002)
• Sandra Henrica Anna Petronella Meijvis
• Kristi Michelle Waugh, Sparta, Monroe County, Wisconsin († 2023)
• Patricia Breuker († 1975)

• Cornelia Coolen (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Laverman (82), Ljouwert, Friesland, Nederland
• Edelbroek (49), Utrecht
• Charles William Dinger (73)
• Archibald Hugh Bogle (89), Auckland, New Zealand
• Verhoeven Arthur Franciscus (66), Weelde, Antwerpen, België
• Cornelia Rijninks (82), Paasloo, Oldemarkt,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Drake (84), La Crosse, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Akke Heines van Assen (63), Harlingen
• Akke Assen van (63), Harns, Harlingen, Fr, Nederland

• 1968 » Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress
• 1969 » Larry Johnson, American basketball player and actor
• 1970 » Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Irom Chanu Sharmila, Indian poet and activist
• 1973 » Rohit Shetty, Indian film director and producer
• 1974 » Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 » Dmitri Markov, Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter
• 1975 » Steve Harper, English footballer and referee
• 1976 » Phil Vickery, English rugby player and sportscaster
• 1977 » Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and coach

• 1965 » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
• 1975 » Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1976 » Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (b. 1928)
• 1980 » Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1902)

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.
• March 2 » The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
• May 21 » Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
• May 26 » The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• September 29 » China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• November 11 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
• November 30 » Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.

The temperature on March 14, 1972 was between 1.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.