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• levenloos kind VERMEER († 1972)

• Adriana Maria van Loon (89), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Aleida Fokkina Lich (68), Oude Pekela
• Barend Hendrik Schotvanger (75), Haarlem, NH, Nederland
• Cornelia Warmenhoven (17), Leiden
• Anneke Johannes Herrema (29), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Augustina Maria Witte (68), Doetinchem, Netherlands
• Clement John Sharkey (75), Montebello,Los Angeles Co.,CA
• Christina Jacoba Eises Sonnega (93), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis Oosterman (23), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hultermans (69)

• 1969 » Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1969 » Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player
• 1971 » Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
• 1971 » Patty Jenkins, American film director and screenwriter
• 1972 » Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1973 » Amanda Stretton, English race car driver and journalist
• 1973 » Ana Cristina Oliveira, Portuguese model and actress
• 1973 » Russell Bawden, Australian rugby league player
• 1974 » Andy Gomarsall, English rugby player
• 1975 » Tracey Crouch, English politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics

• 1962 » Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (b. 1917)
• 1965 » Constance Bennett, American actress and producer (b. 1904)
• 1966 » Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
• 1969 » Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
• 1974 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1980 » Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
• 1986 » Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Qudrat Ullah Shahab, Pakistani civil servant and author (b. 1917)

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.
• January 26 » JAT Fight 367 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb, killing 27 of the 28 people on board the DC-9. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survives with critical injuries.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 11 » The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system begins passenger service.
• September 24 » Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
• September 30 » Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.

The temperature on July 24, 1972 was between 14.5 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 19.6 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.