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• Leendert Adrianus Domburg, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• NN Doornbos, Groningen († 1972)

• Christiaan Theodorus Hemmink (67), Almelo, Nederland
• Antoinette de Rochechouart (79)
• Cornelia Hopmans (60), Bergen op Zoom
• Arend Hoeve (68), Bunschoten-Eemdijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis Andriesz van der Ende (71), Rotterdam
• Antonius Henricus Josephus Nelissen (66), Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Christiaan Prinsen (67)
• Anton Willem Hulleman (68), Den Haag
• Amé Bracke (35), Sluiskil, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anneke Moed (76), Hoensbroek

• 1970 » Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager
• 1970 » Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper
• 1970 » Neera Tanden, American lawyer and policy analyst
• 1970 » Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 » Joe Bravo, American jockey
• 1972 » Bente Skari, Norwegian skier
• 1972 » James Duval, American actor and producer
• 1973 » Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
• 1973 » Mark Huizinga, Dutch martial artist
• 1973 » Tim Stimpson, English rugby player

• 1961 » Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (b. 1880)
• 1965 » Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
• 1966 » Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (b. 1891)
• 1968 » Erna Mohr, German zoologist (b. 1894)
• 1971 » Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 1973 » Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
• 1979 » Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)

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 14 » Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
• February 15 » Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
• February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
• May 2 » In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers.
• May 6 » Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
• July 23 » The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.

The temperature on September 10, 1972 was between 7.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.