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• Johnnie Loonstra, Deventer
• John Paul Bucholz, Armour († 1990)
• Harriet harry Veneman, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Luanne Marie Louwerse († 1972)
• Hendrik Richard Lenters († 2016)
• Luanne Marie Louwerse († 1972)

• Christina Hendrika Den Drijver (75), Dordrecht
• Anna Maria Smeulders (84), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christina Hendrika den Drijver (75), Dordrecht
• Antje Jetzes Punter (74), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Punter (74), Sneek
• Berend Meems (68), Tange, Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Christiaan van der Paal (82), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• August Nicholas Joseph Buchheit (70), Missouri
• Berend Johannes Brouwer (64), Bellingwolde
• Catharina Zijlstra (67), -

• 1969 » Judah Friedlander, American comedian and actor
• 1970 » Joakim Berg, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 » Alan Tudyk, American actor
• 1971 » Franck Comba, French rugby player
• 1972 » Ismaïl Sghyr, French-Moroccan long-distance runner
• 1973 » Andrey Mizurov, Kazakhstani road bicycle racer
• 1973 » Vonda Ward, American boxer
• 1974 » Anne Charrier, French actress
• 1974 » Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer and politician
• 1974 » Heath Streak, Zimbabwean cricketer

• 1965 » Alice Herz, German activist (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (b. 1893)
• 1968 » Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (b. 1907)
• 1968 » Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1971 » Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1971 » Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Pie Traynor, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1975 » T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
• 1977 » Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1917)

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 8 » Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
• January 10 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
• March 30 » Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
• 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.
• 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 16, 1972 was between 0.5 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.