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• Muriel Cécile Detournay, Ixelles († 2011)
• Cornelis Johannes Adrianus Labee, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Geertruida van Heiningen († 2015)
• Michael Stephan Koelemij, Haarlem († 2006)
• Daniëlle Jozefina Johanna van der Laan, Beers

• Annes Duinkerken (58)
• Arie Lugtigheid (69), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annes Duinkerken (58)
• Antonia Groffen (64), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Kroon (77), IJsselmuiden
• Adrianus Kouwenberg (64), Nieuw Ginneken
• Anna Clasina Elisabeth Lütge (85), Velden am Wörthersee (Karintië)
• Alphons Bardoel (69), Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Maria van der Tol (75)
• Carolus Ludovicus Pauwels (90), Mariakerke

• 1968 » Brian d'Arcy James, American actor and musician
• 1968 » Judith Hoag, American actress and educator
• 1968 » Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 » Claude Béchard, Canadian politician († 2010)
• 1969 » Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1969 » Tōru Hashimoto, Japanese lawyer and politician
• 1970 » Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
• 1970 » Melanie Paschke, German sprinter
• 1971 » Matthew Good, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 » George Hincapie, American cyclist

• 1964 » Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1967 » Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor (b. 1906)
• 1969 » Moise Tshombe, Congolese accountant and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Nestor Mesta Chayres, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1978 » Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1979 » Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1945)
• 1980 » Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Russell Drysdale, English-Australian painter (b. 1912)

• 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.
• May 21 » Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
• July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
• September 9 » In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
• September 24 » Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
• November 8 » American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches, initially transmitting to 365 Teleservice Cable subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. First operating as a Northeastern U.S.-based regional service, HBO was one of the first cable-originated television channels. HBO's inaugural programming that evening consisted of its first event telecast—an NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks, and its first movie presentation—the 1971 Paul Newman–Henry Fonda film Sometimes a Great Notion.

The temperature on June 29, 1972 was between 6.2 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.