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• Patrick Bischop, Ixelles
• Paul Henricus Antonius Albertus van Duijnhoven, Uden († 1997)
• Arthur van Gansewinkel, Johannesburg (Zuid Afr)
• Sebastiaan Jozef Joh. Maria (Bas) Reinhoud († 2017)
• Marja Voulon, Haarlem, 2035, Nederland

• Charles William R Drake (45), Glendale, Ar Shady Grove Cemetery
• Augustinus Arthur Wijns (66), Leuven, België
• Adriana Theodora Maria Maas (43), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharinus Wijbenga (66)
• Catharina Zwaans (76), Cuijk
• Betty Jo Woods Barrett Beasley [iWkiPwk]Wk8 (41), Princeton, Gibson County, Indiana
• Adrianus Hoogervorst (74), Sassenheim
• Berendina Annes van der Veen (65), Leeuwarden
• Anthonie Weideman (64)
• Adrianus Vrijenhoek (80), Krimpen aan den IJssel

• 1971 » Darren Jessee, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1972 » Paul Gray, American bass player and songwriter († 2010)
• 1972 » Sergei Magnitsky, Russian lawyer and accountant († 2009)
• 1973 » Emma Caulfield, American actress
• 1973 » Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer
• 1974 » Nnedi Okorafor, Nigerian-American author and educator
• 1974 » Toutai Kefu, Tongan-Australian rugby player
• 1975 » Anouk, Dutch singer
• 1975 » Francesco Flachi, Italian footballer
• 1975 » Timo Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player

• 1961 » Joseph Carrodus, Australian public servant (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)

• 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.
• May 13 » Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
• May 21 » Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
• July 11 » The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
• August 22 » Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• October 29 » The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
• December 30 » Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

The temperature on April 8, 1972 was between 6.0 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.