About the day » Sunday December 30, 1962Calender converter

• Steven John Plummer, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa († 2015)
• Paul Alexander Lenders
• JAN FRANS MARIA JACOBS, VILVOORDE († 2011)
• Rick Jason in't Veld, Compton, California, United States († 1985)
• Cornelis Caspert de Vries, Valkenburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1963)
• Leen Waardenburg († 1976)
• Petrus Haring
• Leendert Waardenburg († 1976)
• Ronald Wiechmann, Den Helder († 2007)
• Louella van Putten, amsterdam, Nederland († 2019)

• Albertus Rowenhorst (105), Orange City, Sioux Co., IA
• ANDRE DUBOIS (85), Beyrouth, Liban
• Arie Doedijns (75)
• Anna Wilhelmina BRUURS (68), Duffel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Adam Mark Hawkins (64), Waynesville, Haywood, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Kuiper (79), Enschede
• Carel Diederick Josenius Pieloor (89), Breda, Noord Brabant Netherlands
• André EUZENOT (40), Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
• Alberta Petronella Conrada Verhoeven (58)
• Benjamin Smorenburg (78), Utrecht

• 1960 » Richard M. Durbin, English biologist and academic
• 1961 » Ben Johnson, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter
• 1961 » Bill English, New Zealand farmer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1961 » Charlie Nicholas, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1961 » Douglas Coupland, German-Canadian author and playwright
• 1961 » Sean Hannity, American radio and television host
• 1963 » Chandler Burr, American journalist and author
• 1963 » Mike Pompeo, American diplomat and politician; 70th United States Secretary of State
• 1963 » Milan Šrejber, Czech tennis player
• 1964 » Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer and referee († 2013)

• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 » Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913)
• 1967 » Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887)
• 1968 » Trygve Lie, Norwegian journalist and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
• 1971 » Jo Cals, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919)

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.
• February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
• April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
• August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
• 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 December 30, 1962 was between -5.2 °C and -2.8 °C and averaged -4.3 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.