About the day » Monday March 20, 1972Calender converter

• Gerben IJpelaar, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2003)
• Marrit Karin Gerards Potma († 1975)
• ROBERT BERNARDUS MAAT, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Corine Jeltema, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 2020)
• Patrick Robert SPRONK, utrecht († 2017)
• Dean Christopher Richards HEMMINGS, Palmerston North, New Zealand († 1973)
• Sofie De Cock, Kinshasa († 1972)

• Arthur Leopold Vanderijse (76), Damme, België
• Adrianus Verhoeff (76), Krimpen aan de Lek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baukje Hanzes Kies (79), Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands
• Baukje Kies (79), Winschoten
• Annechien Stevens (79), Drouwenerveen, Borger
• Antonius Johannes Bolder (70)
• Adrianus Verhoeff (76)
• Adriana van Kampen (68), Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendricus Vermie (86), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Adams (81), Belsano, Cambria Co., Pennsylvania

• 1971 » Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player
• 1971 » Touré, American journalist and author
• 1972 » Alex Kapranos, English-Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1972 » Chilly Gonzales, Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1972 » Cristel Vahtra, Estonian skier
• 1972 » Greg Searle, English rower
• 1972 » Marco Sejna, German footballer
• 1973 » Natalya Khrushcheleva, Russian runner
• 1973 » Nicky Boje, South African cricketer
• 1973 » Talal Khalifa Aljeri, Kuwaiti businessman

• 1965 » Daniel Frank, American long jumper (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Johnny Morrison, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1968 » Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Falih Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1974 » Chet Huntley, American journalist (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 » Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)

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 4 » Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK.
• January 10 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
• January 30 » Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
• April 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
• July 23 » The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• August 16 » In an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

The temperature on March 20, 1972 was between -1.5 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (81%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.