About the day » Tuesday May 2, 1972Calender converter

• susanne a.p. bruijnen, helden-beringe
• Michel Latour, Blankenberge († 1972)
• Bianca Silvia Violetta Schriever, Ermelo († 1973)
• Antonius Jacobus Johannes Sven Amende († 2012)

• Adriaan Spapen (75), Baarle-Hertog (België)
• Angelus 'Alfons' DE KOCK (86), Ramsel
• Adriana van der Mast (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bathilde Adolfine Godela Mathilde Emma Ascania van Westarp (84), Winsen (Luhe), Nedersaksen
• Bernard Gröninger (82), Lindloh
• Anna Odell Potts Best [KsBs] (82), Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina
• Abel Sheely Ramirez (30), United States of America
• Antje Adriana Kroon (88), Franeker
• Abraham Vonk (56), 's Gravenhage
• Albertes Gosselman (78)

• 1970 » Marco Walker, Swiss footballer and coach
• 1971 » Fatima Yusuf, Nigerian sprinter
• 1971 » Musashimaru Kōyō, Samoan-American sumo wrestler, the 67th Yokozuna
• 1972 » Ahti Heinla, Estonian programmer and businessman, co-developed Skype
• 1972 » Dwayne Johnson, American-Canadian wrestler, actor, and producer
• 1972 » Paul Adcock, English footballer
• 1973 » Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German director and screenwriter
• 1974 » Andy Johnson, English-Welsh footballer
• 1974 » Horacio Carbonari, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1974 » Janek Meet, Estonian footballer

• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 » J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
• 1974 » James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)
• 1977 » Nicholas Magallanes, American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (b. 1922)
• 1979 » Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (b. 1891)
• 1980 » George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Norm Van Brocklin, American football player and coach (b. 1926)

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. Johan
16. David

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Johanna
4. Monique
5. Esther
6. Saskia
7. Miranda
8. Elisabeth
9. Bianca
10. Wendy
11. Patricia
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 14 » Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
• January 20 » Pakistan launched its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
• March 20 » The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
• April 16 » Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
• May 30 » In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.

The temperature on May 2, 1972 was between 9.0 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.