About the day » Monday March 27, 1972Calender converter

• Marcel den Hartog, Amersfoort
• Robertus Evert Johannes (Robert) Driessen, Rotterdam
• Nathalia Yvette Batenburg, Hardenberg († 1972)
• Maria Wilhelmina Steenhouwer
• Robert Allen Frey, Ìowa († 1973)
• Valeska Hubar († 2024)

• Charles Ward
• Blanche Mitczky von Nems-Miticz (72)
• Anna Agnes Maria van de Weijer (79), Hilversum, Nederland
• Charles Clark Foster (90), Spirit Lake, Dickinson, Iowa, United States
• Alverda Louella Rowser (55)
• Adèle Daley Elias (75), Vancouver, BC (CA)
• Anthonij geerts (56), dordrecht
• Christiaan Russens (54), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant
• Catharina Jacoba Antoinetta Adriana van de Wouw (75), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Audie Cephus Lee (70), Volusia, Florida, United States

• 1970 » Brent Fitz, Canadian-American multi-instrumentalist and recording artist
• 1970 » Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
• 1970 » Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1970 » Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran († 2001)
• 1970 » Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1971 » David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver and sportscaster
• 1971 » Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1972 » Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler
• 1972 » Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 1973 » Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer

• 1967 » Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Vladimir Seryogin, Russian soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1968 » Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934)
• 1973 » Mikhail Kalatozov, Georgian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Eduardo Santos, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Arthur Bliss, English conductor and composer (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Georg August Zinn, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Hesse (b. 1901)
• 1977 » Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 » Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch airline pilot (b. 1927)
• 1977 » Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, and composer (b. 1896)

• 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 26 » JAT Fight 367 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb, killing 27 of the 28 people on board the DC-9. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survives with critical injuries.
• February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
• April 10 » Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
• April 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
• 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.
• December 14 » Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

The temperature on March 27, 1972 was between 4.4 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.