About the day » Sunday September 10, 1972Calender converter

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

• Arie Cornelis Andriesz van der Ende (71), Rotterdam
• Arend Hoeve (68), Bunschoten-Eemdijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis van de ENDE (70), rotterdam
• Albert (Ab) Logtenberg (71), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Christiaan Theodorus Hemmink (67), Almelo, Nederland
• Allegonda van den ANKER (56), maasdriel
• Arnold SCHREUDER (103), Almelo
• Christiaan Markus (82), Hilversum
• Cornelia Takkenberg (81), Oudewater, Utrecht, NL
• Antoinette Maria Virginia Victoria van Rochechouart de Mortemart (79), Senlis, Picardië

• 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. 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 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
• February 22 » The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
• April 22 » Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
• September 5 » Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine are murdered the following day.
• December 19 » Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
• December 29 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.

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.