About the day » Wednesday June 14, 1972Calender converter

• patricia h.j. (patricia) engels, helden-dorp
• Jeroen Bernard Johan Baars, Alkmaar
• Jami Lynn van Ryswyk († 2001)
• levenloos geboren dochtertje († 1972)

• Albertus Adrianus de Monye (102), Rijnsburg, Netherlands
• Claudius Tolman (73), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America
• Cornelis Willems (87), Sint Anthonis
• anna maria geziena kuyper (80), Gemeente Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alice Jane Cawley (86), Eastbourne, East Sussex. England
• Carolina Berendina Cecilia Bruens (81), Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Auke Hondema (75), Harlingen, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Cuijpers (79), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Gijsberta Bottram (8), Bergeijk
• Arentje Velthuizen (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1969 » Éric Desjardins, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1970 » Heather McDonald, American comedian, actress, and author
• 1971 » Bruce Bowen, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1971 » Ramon Vega, Swiss footballer
• 1972 » Claude Henderson, South African cricketer
• 1972 » Danny McFarlane, Jamaican hurdler and sprinter
• 1972 » Dominic Brown, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1972 » Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist and engineer, founded KDE
• 1972 » Rick Brunson, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 » Sami Kapanen, Finnish-American ice hockey player and manager

• 1968 » Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
• 1972 » Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Alan Reed, American actor, original voice of Fred Flintstone (b.1907)
• 1977 » Robert Middleton, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1979 » Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1980 » Charles Miller, American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1939)
• 1986 » Alan Jay Lerner, American composer and songwriter (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Stanisław Bareja, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (b. 1900)

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 30 » The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
• March 22 » The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
• March 30 » Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
• April 6 » Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
• August 22 » Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.

The temperature on June 14, 1972 was between 9.4 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.