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• Ralf Antonius Petrus Maria SPRONK, Heerlen († 2008)
• Henricus Ludovic Bennenbroek, Someren († 2001)
• Lynda Anne Scardino, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Hubertus van Outheusden, Breda († 2010)
• Yvonne van der Graaf, 's-Gravenhage

• Anna Harriet Straiton (60), Matsqui, British Columbia, Canada
• Blair Edward Crissey (48), VETERANS HOSPITAL
• Angelique de Koning (2)
• Christiaan, Johannes van Gerdingen, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Joanna Philippart (81)
• Arnold Benjamin Levi (66), Amsterdam
• Antje Tjibbes Gelders (86), Los Angeles
• Antje van der Meulen (70), Rhenen
• Antonia Doorenbos (92), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Antoinetta Elisabeth, Nettie Ceelen (47), Voorburg

• 1970 » Louis Theroux, Singaporean-English journalist and producer
• 1970 » Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
• 1971 » Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper and coach
• 1971 » Tony Stewart, American race car driver
• 1972 » Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1972 » Christophe Dominici, French rugby player
• 1972 » Michael Diamond, Australian shooter
• 1973 » Nathan Long, Australian rugby league player
• 1974 » Allison Amend, American novelist and short story writer
• 1974 » Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Indian film director, writer and actor

• 1956 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
• 1961 » Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1964 » Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
• 1971 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)

• 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 15 » In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become president.
• May 21 » Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
• June 15 » Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
• June 30 » The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
• September 15 » A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
• 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.

The temperature on May 20, 1972 was between 6.9 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.