About the day » Friday May 5, 1972Calender converter

• Leonora Stodel, Brent, Greater London, Middlesex, England
• Karina Maria Regina Stroink, Hengelo (0)
• Michelle Rosenlof, Provo, Utah County, Utah, United States of America († 2008)
• Claus van Aken, Zoersel (B) († 1993)
• Martin Drenth

• Christiaan Josef Smeets (79), Heerlen
• Arnoldus Meermans (65), Hasselt (B)
• Ambrosius Johannes Swinkels (89), Mierlo,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Acylino de Mello Carvalho (33), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• "Françoise" Marie Léonie Octavie de Merode (52), Bruxelles
• Christiaan Josef Smeets (79), Heerlen
• Barend Troost (74)
• Burton Clifford DYE (62)
• Barteld Kort (77), Jubbega Schurega
• Anna, Maria van Wesenbeeck (55), Essen

• 1969 » Pieter Muller, South African rugby player
• 1970 » Kyan Douglas, American television host and author
• 1970 » Todd Newton, American game show host
• 1971 » Harold Miner, American basketball player
• 1971 » Mike Redmond, American baseball player and manager
• 1972 » Žigmund Pálffy, Slovakian ice hockey player
• 1972 » James Cracknell, English rower
• 1972 » Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1975 » Meb Keflezighi, American runner
• 1976 » Dieter Brummer, Australian actor

• 1959 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1971 » Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)
• 1983 » Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)
• 1983 » John Williams, English-American actor (b. 1903)

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 15 » Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
• April 10 » Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
• May 2 » In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers.
• May 4 » The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
• November 23 » The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.

The temperature on May 5, 1972 was between 10.3 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.