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• Twan Wijnen, Maasbree († 1999)
• Garth Antonio BROMFIELD, Top Hill, St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica († 1980)
• Serge van der Weijden, Amsterdam
• Pieternella Kleine, Wieringermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Juan Jose RUANO ABAD, Madrid (SP)
• Roland Girardet, Paris († 2005)
• Wilhelmus Hendrikus (Wilbert) Jaspers, Gennep († 1996)
• Teetske Frouke van Gorcum, Eerbeek, Gelderland, Nederland

• Alida Maria Jeanette van Beresteyn (78), Zeist,Gemeente Zeist,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Catharina van Roessel (54), Oisterwijk, Nederland
• Bauke Tiberius Willems Koopmans (84), Joure, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham baron Calkoen (72), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Amy Ann May Poke (88), Tasmania, Australia
• Barbara Margaretha Agatha Klasing (86), Alkmaar
• Barbara Margaretha Agatha Klasing (86), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Buijs (87), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Calkoen (72), 's-Gravenhage
• Aart Wouter van Nugteren (81), Ridderkerk

• 1969 » Cory Booker, African-American lawyer and politician
• 1969 » Darcey Bussell, English ballerina
• 1971 » Olari Elts, Estonian conductor
• 1972 » Almedin Civa, Bosnian footballer and coach
• 1972 » Nigel Barker, English photographer and author
• 1973 » Duško Adamović, Serbian footballer
• 1973 » Sébastien Lareau, Canadian tennis player
• 1973 » Sharlee D'Angelo, Swedish bass player and songwriter
• 1974 » Frank Catalanotto, American baseball player
• 1974 » Richard Johnson, Australian footballer

• 1961 » Roy Del Ruth, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1962 » A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bangladeshi-Pakistani lawyer and politician, Pakistani Minister of the Interior (b. 1873)
• 1965 » Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 1967 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand farmer, founded the Eastwoodhill Arboretum (b. 1884)
• 1969 » René Barrientos, Bolivian soldier, pilot, and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
• 1970 » Arthur Shields, Irish rebel and actor (b. 1896)
• 1972 » Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (b. 1909)
• 1973 » Carlos Menditeguy, Argentinian race car driver and polo player (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1988 » Fred Bear, American hunter and author (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.
• February 3 » The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
• May 26 » The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• June 20 » Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
• July 23 » The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• August 11 » Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
• November 29 » Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.

The temperature on April 27, 1972 was between 2.3 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.