About the day » Tuesday June 13, 1972Calender converter

• Peter Nolan Jr, Queens County, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Paul Borgt, Urmond († 2003)
• Ingrid de Beurs, Alkmaar
• Antonet Josephina van Gerwen, Hedel, Gelderland, Nederland
• John Wieffering
• Charlotte Anny Marianne van den Berg, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Shairon La Cruz, Curacao
• Erick Rudolf Hoogcarspel, Lake Forest (USA) († 2020)
• Gabry Schager, Westzaan
• Antonio Marcos Schmitt, Gaspar, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1992)

• August Van Looy (53), Lier, België
• Albert Alphonse Auguste Cleys (70), Wattrelos, Nord-Pas-de-Calais,, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Vos (72), Emmen Drenthe Nederland
• Bauke Finnema (88)
• Antonius Jongenelis (77), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernhard Schattorie (92), Swalmen, LI.NL
• Areke van Vulpen (72), Eindhoven
• Anna Josephina Helena Francisca Peters (75), Hoensbroek
• Bernardina Anthonia van As (61), Overschie
• Schutte Johannes (77), Zaandam

• 1970 » Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
• 1970 » Rivers Cuomo, American rock musician, frontman of Weezer
• 1971 » Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player
• 1972 » Marek Jerzy Minakowski, Polish philosopher, historian, genealogist
• 1972 » Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler
• 1973 » Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1973 » Sam Adams, American football player
• 1973 » Stuart Karppinen, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1973 » Tanner Foust, American race car driver and television host
• 1973 » Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1958 » Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)
• 1965 » David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1965 » Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
• 1969 » Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1979 » Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)
• 1980 » Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• 1981 » Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and physician (b. 1896)
• 1984 » António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)

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 11 » East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• April 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon.
• May 5 » Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
• May 8 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
• 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.
• June 16 » The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station.

The temperature on June 13, 1972 was between 3.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.