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• Ren Theodoor Smit, Staphorst († 1975)
• Daniel Lee Mulder, Sioux Center, Sioux, Iowa, VS († 2001)
• N.n. Zandhuis, Noordoostpolder († 1972)
• Sarah Jane Wildeboer († 1973)
• Gert-Jan Kouseband, Den Helder, Netherlands

• Anna Catharina Kubben (72), Antwerpen
• Cyriel De Kever (69), Steendorp
• Clifford William Wilson (60), Auburn, King, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Coletta C. Heuring Hoefler (57), Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Columba Jacoba van Steijn (89), Wassenaar, Nederland
• Adolf Bierinckx (77), Itegem, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Adrianus Maria Josephus Nuijten (74), Breda
• Christina van den Berg (74)
• Anna Maria Catharina Duyzings (81), Hulsberg, Nuth
• Aukje Tinge (78), Schoonoord

• 1971 » Mike Sadlo, German footballer and manager
• 1971 » Sanaa Lathan, American actress
• 1972 » Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player and coach
• 1972 » Matt Cockbain, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1972 » N. K. Jemisin, American writer
• 1972 » Ryan Girdler, Australian rugby league player
• 1973 » Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian race car driver
• 1973 » David Zepeda, Mexican actor, model and singer
• 1973 » Javier Duarte, Mexican politician
• 1973 » Nick Colgan, Irish footballer and coach

• 1965 » Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
• 1967 » Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French painter (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1910)
• 1972 » Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1975 » Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
• 1978 » Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1985 » Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)

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 4 » Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK.
• April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
• June 20 » Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
• September 1 » In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
• 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.
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.

The temperature on September 19, 1972 was between 6.7 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.