About the day » Tuesday May 2, 1972Calender converter

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

• Arie Cornelis Spek (44), Rotterdam
• Abraham Vonk (56), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bathilde Adolfine Godela Mathilde Emma Ascania van Westarp (84), Winsen (Luhe), Nedersaksen
• Anna Gertruda Baetzen (92)
• Arie BUIJN (85), Nijmegen
• Augustinus DAEMS (69), Beringen Belgie
• Adèle Mossel (84), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bathildis, Gräfin von Westarp (84), Winsen a.d.Luhe
• Adolf Sloof (74), Utrecht, Utrecht, nederland
• Anna Odell Potts Best [KsBs] (82), Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina

• 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)

• 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.
• March 3 » Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
• May 30 » The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
• June 23 » Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
• October 13 » Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. 28 survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.
• November 10 » Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

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.