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• Bas Dirks († 1993)
• Nicole Janine van Gasteren, Culemborg
• Johannes Trip, Groningen († 1999)
• Jeroen van Heeringen, Linschoten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1974)
• Sasja Baijens (Bayens), Vlaardingen
• Jeffery Neil Schrader, Wanganui, Manawatu, New Zealand († 2007)

• Antje van der Berg (51), Achlum
• Antonius van Grinsven (85), Eindhoven, NL
• Catharina Maria Koekkoek (79), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Maria Tukker (45)
• Bernarda Johanna Giesen (52), Eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnold Helmich van Heek (89)
• Adriana Johanna de Wit (86), Rijssen
• Arnold Helmig van Heek (89), Enschede
• Bouwe Tjeerds van Dijk (79), Wirdum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Arnold Helmich(Atje) van Heek (89), Enschede,Gemeente Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1969 » Jennifer Crittenden, American screenwriter and producer
• 1969 » Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
• 1971 » Alex Griffin, English bass player
• 1971 » Carla Gugino, American actress
• 1971 » Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
• 1972 » Amanda Marshall, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1972 » Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor
• 1973 » Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer
• 1973 » Vincent Cavanagh, English singer and guitarist
• 1974 » Kumi Tanioka, Japanese keyboard player and composer

• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
• 1971 » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1977 » Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
• 1977 » Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
• 1982 » Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)

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 24 » Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
• February 1 » Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• March 3 » Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
• May 6 » Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
• June 8 » Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.

The temperature on August 29, 1972 was between 9.3 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.