About the day » Thursday September 21, 1972Calender converter

• erwin zegers, helden-beringe
• Sindy Handy Ursela van Guldener, Assen
• Christopher John SWARD, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1980)
• Jacoba Haasnoot, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2012)

• Brand Kuit (80)
• Albertus de Joode (80), Amsterdam
• Anna Catharina Laarhuis (68), Enschede
• Antonius Marinus HOPSTAKEN (80), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina van Kleeff (81)
• Beatrice F. Frichter (90), Milwaukee, Clackamas Co., Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Adolfine van der Veen (86), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Kuiper (76), Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Hendrik VAN AKEREN (76), Poppel,2382,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Antonius, Marinus Hopstaken (80), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1970 » Melissa Ferrick, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 » Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor and golf player
• 1971 » John Crawley, English cricketer and academic
• 1971 » Luke Wilson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1972 » Jon Kitna, American football player and coach
• 1972 » Liam Gallagher, English singer-songwriter
• 1972 » Olivia Bonamy, French actress
• 1973 » Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
• 1973 » Vanessa Grigoriadis, American journalist and author
• 1973 » Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spanish tennis player

• 1962 » Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Paulino Masip, Spanish author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1964 » Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist (b. 1880)
• 1966 » Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (b. 1878)
• 1971 » Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Jacqueline Susann, American author and actress (b. 1918)
• 1974 » Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Turkish painter and poet (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Chile (b. 1932)

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.
• March 3 » Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
• April 25 » Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
• May 13 » The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
• 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.
• August 11 » Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
• August 14 » An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany, due to an in-flight fire, killing 156.

The temperature on September 21, 1972 was between 2.8 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.