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• Frans Bakker († 2009)
• Jacobus Harte, Schiedam († 1962)
• Diewertje van Dijk, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Theodoor Franciscus (Theo) Schuten, Sellingerbeetse Sellingen Vlagtwedde Westerwolde Groningen Nederland († 2015)
• Dieuwertje van Dijk, Driebergen-Rijsenburg († 1962)
• Adriana Johanna Blom, Utrecht
• Maria Ida Post, Schagen († 1998)
• George Lodewijk (George) Hoffman, Zwaneburg († 1962)
• Stefaan CASTELEYN, Varsenare († 1962)
• Carla RAEDSCHELDERS, Antwerpen († 2017)

• Benjamin Franklin Chance (75), Wheeler, Texas
• Azalia Piner (66)
• Adriana Catharina Kennekens (72), Bakel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Rosalie Hendrica Mathijssen (70), Roosendaal
• Abraham Rutgers van der Loeff (85), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Vlaarkamp (78), Haarlem
• Anna Maria Cornelia Sips (87), Nieuwmoer (B)
• Carolina Theodora van Teeckelenburgh (92), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christiaan Drieling (77), amsterdam, Nederland
• Adriana Rosalie Henrica Matthijssen (70), roosendaal

• 1960 » Apa Sherpa, Nepalese-American mountaineer
• 1960 » Scott Thunes, American bass player
• 1960 » Will Wright, American video game designer, co-founded Maxis
• 1963 » James Denton, American actor
• 1963 » Mark Ryden, American painter and illustrator
• 1964 » Aquilino Pimentel III, Filipino lawyer and politician
• 1964 » Jack Lewis, American soldier and author
• 1964 » Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter and songwriter
• 1964 » Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
• 1964 » Ron Harper, American basketball player and coach

• 1947 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1954 » Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922)
• 1971 » Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon (b. 1885)

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 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
• July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
• July 13 » In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
• September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
• 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.
• December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.

The temperature on January 20, 1962 was between 2.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.