About the day » Wednesday August 23, 1972Calender converter

• Foppe Tako Zoutman, Apeldoorn († 1973)
• Maarten Jacob Kant († 1997)
• Robert-Jan van Roshum († 1976)
• Denise Michelle EDWARDS, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1992)
• Elena Michaycovna Drel, Donetsk/Oekraïne

• Antonius Manders (85), Rotterdam
• Antonius Josephus Pas (54), Doetinchem
• Cornelis Kaijser (92), Terneuzen
• AREN DROOGER (81), NIEUWE TONGE
• Antonius Jopsephius Pas (54), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agnes Meijers (80), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis van Wendel (73), Pingjum (Sudwest-Fryslan), Friesland, Nederland
• Anastasia MATHUES (76), Tienen,3300,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE
• Ester Lee Bolden (68), Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States of America
• Clementina Aloïsia van Hese (88), Grembergen (OOST-VLAANDEREN) België

• 1971 » Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1971 » Gretchen Whitmer, 49th Governor of Michigan
• 1971 » Tim Gutberlet, German footballer
• 1972 » Anthony Calvillo, Canadian football player
• 1972 » Manuel Vidrio, Mexican footballer, coach, and manager
• 1972 » Mark Butcher, English cricketer and singer
• 1972 » Martin Grainger, English footballer and manager
• 1972 » Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1973 » Casey Blake, American baseball player
• 1973 » Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer

• 1962 » Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (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. 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 10 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
• 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.
• April 10 » Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
• April 22 » Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
• September 21 » Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos begins authoritarian rule by declaring martial law.
• October 11 » A race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.

The temperature on August 23, 1972 was between 7.5 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.