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• Janny Griffioen, Woerden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Tasha Kristine Sylvester († 1999)
• Shannon Marie Renker, of Connecticut, United States († 2007)
• Leslie Paul SAVORY, Hitchin, Hertfordshire († 2008)
• Cornelia Marchje Liane van der Gaag († 2014)

• Beatrice Hagopian [iWbWdi] (72), Napa County, California
• Anna Josepha Ladeur (78), Tegelen
• Alphonse Francois Nicolaes (47), Maastricht (Heer)
• Abel Jans Hoffman (94), Grand Haven, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Karolina den Ambtman (84)
• Adriana Theresia Fitters (49), Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Mooren (88), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Benjamin Willem Bussemaker (64), Lyon (Rhône-Alpes), Frankrijk
• Adriana Theresia (Zus) Fitters (49), Drunen,Noord Brabant,Holland
• Antonio Pereira Oliveira (56)

• 1971 » Aileen Quinn, American actress and singer
• 1971 » Bobby Hurley, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 » Elon Musk, South African-born American businessman
• 1971 » Fabien Barthez, French footballer
• 1971 » Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer
• 1971 » Ron Mahay, American baseball player and scout
• 1972 » Alessandro Nivola, American actor
• 1972 » Chris Leslie, English politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1972 » Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic
• 1972 » Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese-French mathematician and academic

• 1962 » Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903)
• 1965 » Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1975 » Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1978 » Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
• 1980 » José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b. 1958)

• 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 18 » The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
• 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.
• June 29 » The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
• August 11 » Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
• 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 June 28, 1972 was between 9.5 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.