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• Levenloos kind Waasdorp, Leiden († 1962)
• Marretje Post († 2009)
• Levenloos Barendregt, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Thea van Meurs
• Claudia Clara Jelsma († 1977)
• Miranda Sandriena Leeuwenkamp, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2021)
• Marja Johanna Bus, Laren († 2016)
• Eva Marjolien Franssen, Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Miranda Sandriena Leeuwenkamp, Apeldoorn († 2021)
• Joanna Florus, Nijmegen

• Alagonda Oosterhuis (74), Ten Boer, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Jacoba Van Muijlwijk (92), Amsterdam
• Amanda Vilate Browning (78), Renton,, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Aafke Bolhuis (72), Middelstum, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus van Holsteijn (79), Poeldijk (Z-H), Nederland
• Adriana Cornelia Affourtit (Pluim) (73), Tilburg, NB, Nederland
• Anneko VAN DER LAAN (95)
• Alagonda (Hendriks) OOSTERHUIS (74)
• Arthur Soares da Fonseca e Silva (87), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• * Pieter Jacobus van der Spek (59), Zoetermeer

• 1959 » Anne Hobbs, English tennis player and coach
• 1959 » Jim McMahon, American football player and coach
• 1961 » Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player and coach († 2001)
• 1961 » Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist, and animator († 2018)
• 1961 » V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer and coach († 2019)
• 1962 » John Korfas, Greek-American basketball player and coach
• 1962 » Pete Weber, American bowler
• 1963 » Mohammed VI of Morocco, King of Morocco
• 1963 » Nigel Pearson, English footballer and manager
• 1964 » Gary Elkerton, Australian surfer

• 1947 » Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1957 » Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 » Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1957 » Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1960 » David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
• 1964 » Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)
• 1971 » George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
• 1974 » Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Robert
5. Cornelis
6. Hendrik
7. Pieter
8. Ronald
9. Petrus
10. Gerrit
11. Willem
12. John
13. Paul
14. Johan
15. Hans
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Cornelia
5. Anna
6. Yvonne
7. Jolanda
8. Catharina
9. Wilhelmina
10. Ingrid
11. Monique
12. Karin
13. Hendrika
14. Jacqueline
15. Petronella
16. Anita

• 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.7 million citizens.
• January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
• March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11​⁄₂ day constitutional crisis.
• September 6 » Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
• October 12 » The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
• October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
• October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.

The temperature on August 21, 1962 was between 14.7 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.