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• Heidi Willems, Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1991)
• Jacquelien Luesink, Delfzijl
• Mathias Gerhards Krumm († 1979)
• JEAN FRANCOIS ELIAS, TOULOUSE († 1991)
• Jason Scott BUTLER († 2010)
• Nancy Kuyken, Lommel, Limburg, België († 1988)

• Adrianus Joannes Verhoeven (68), Tilburg
• Albertus Hop (24), Soest
• Annechien Winkelman (71), Enschede
• Anna Maria Cecilia Bertilia van den Assum (54), Dongen
• Aletta Lambertha WEST (74), Arnhem
• Bastiaan Nugteren (51), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Cornelis ZAAIJER (93), Middelharnis
• Antonius Theodorus (Anton) de Bruijn (45), Baarn
• Arnoldus Theodorus van Gendt (92), Cuyck, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Annie van den Assum (54), Dongen

• 1967 » Brian Michael Bendis, American author and illustrator
• 1967 » Daler Mehndi, Indian Punjabi singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1969 » Edward Norton, American actor
• 1969 » Mark Kuhlmann, German rugby player and coach
• 1970 » Jason Furman, American economist and politician
• 1970 » Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor and producer
• 1971 » Richard David James, English musician composer
• 1971 » Patrik Andersson, Swedish footballer
• 1974 » Nicole Krauss, American novelist and critic
• 1977 » Paraskevas Antzas, Greek footballer

• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• 1979 » Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1990 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (b. 1913)

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.
• February 1 » Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• March 1 » The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
• May 6 » Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
• May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
• August 22 » Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• December 11 » Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

The temperature on August 18, 1972 was between 10.2 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.