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• irene van horen
• harm groetelaers, helden-beringe
• Urbanus Marinus Henrica Hoedemaekers, Venray
• Elisabeth Adriana Maria Krijnen, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Jasper († 1972)
• Jolanda VAN DER HEUVEL († 1996)
• Sjirk Oscar Eelze Hiemstra, Baarn († 1986)
• Alison Kaye PICKARD († 2012)
• Klaas Zwerus, Zwolle († 1996)
• Jessica Beekelaar, Tiendeveen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland

• Bernardus van Wamel (95)
• Annechien Zondag (73), Valthermond, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annechien Zondag (73), Valthermond
• Adrianus Franciscus van Langerak (66), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Antje Roelofs Hoogenberg (86), Makkinga
• Albert Wolbink (70), Almelo
• Antonius Joannes Dionysius Bernardus van Loon (67), Tilburg
• Aubry Darnell [K] (48)
• Agatha van Heijkoop (77)
• Catharina Johanna Smit (88)

• 1970 » Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver
• 1970 » Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
• 1970 » Mike DeJean, American baseball player
• 1971 » Alan Wright, English footballer and manager
• 1971 » Braam van Straaten, South African rugby player
• 1971 » George Eustice, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 » Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 » Dita Von Teese, American model and dancer
• 1973 » Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
• 1974 » Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager

• 1962 » Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1888)
• 1966 » André Breton, French author and poet (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 1970 » John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
• 1979 » John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 1981 » Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
• 1982 » Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1984 » Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1911)

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. 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 2 » The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
• April 13 » Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
• July 11 » The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
• July 23 » The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• September 9 » In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
• October 13 » Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.

The temperature on September 28, 1972 was between 5.2 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.