About the day » Saturday February 24, 1962Calender converter

• Erik van Knegsel, Tilburg († 1981)
• Hermanus Henderikus (Harry) Schnoing, Schoonebeek, 7761, Netherlands († 1994)
• Enrico Leliveld († 2015)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1962)
• Andre Lenaerts, Herentals, 2200, Antwerpen, België
• CRISTINA CAROLA ANTUNOVIC VICENTE, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA († 1967)
• NN Gorter, Kampen,, Overijssel, Nederland († 1962)
• Rianne Wolters († 1962)
• Anthonius Bernadus Jozef (Tony) STERK, De Meern
• Hermanus Henderiks Schnöing, Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland († 1994)

• Catharina Stommen (67), Hoensbroek,,Nederland
• Alida M. Hooggreef (66)
• Alida Maria Hooggreef (66)
• Berend Bannink (82), Ruurlo
• Cornelis Van Den Brom (80)
• Aalbert van Grootheest (76), Bennekom, Gelderland, Nederland
• Van Hoof Franciscus Antonius (68), Turnhout, Antwerpen, België
• Anna Alida Schallig (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia de Boer (63), Leiden
• Aaltje Beulakker (79), De Cocksdorp, Texel,, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1958 » Mark Moses, American actor
• 1958 » Sammy Kershaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Beth Broderick, American actress and director
• 1959 » Mike Whitney, Australian cricketer and television host
• 1963 » Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 » Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro
• 1963 » Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Gujarati family, most versatile filmmaker of Hindi cinema.
• 1964 » Russell Ingall, British-Australian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1965 » Jane Swift, American businesswoman and politician, Governor of Massachusetts
• 1965 » Paul Gruber, American football player

• 1953 » Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Robert La Follette Jr., American politician, senator of Wisconsin (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Mir Osman Ali Khan, Last Nizam of Hyderabad State (b. 1886)
• 1970 » Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Hans Bellmer, German artist (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (b.1891)
• 1982 » Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1986 » Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian Bharatnatyam dancer (b. 1904)

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. Karin
12. Monique
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 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
• May 10 » Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
• July 6 » The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
• July 22 » Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
• August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
• August 31 » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.

The temperature on February 24, 1962 was between -5.2 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.