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• Huibert Stehouwer, Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
• Rudolf HOGERBRUGGE, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Ruud VROMEN, Geleen (NL/LI) († 2014)
• Rudolf Hogerbrugge, Waddinxveen († 1962)
• Gijsberta Dirkje Willemina Baars, Rhenen, Utrecht, NL († 2006)
• Astrid Joséphine-Charlotte Fabrizia Elisabeth Paola Marie Saxe-Coburg and Gotha of Belgium
• Hendrik Cor Jan Bovendeaard, Heerlen († 1973)
• Alfons Boerkamp († 1963)
• Jacob Meerwaldt, Hoogvliet († 2013)
• Nilton Blömer, Rio Fortuna, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2006)

• Anna Kijne (84), Vlaardingen
• Antonius Lambertus Damen (68), Grave, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Paulina Rohrbach (79), Tilburg
• Adriana Henrica de Bakker (37), Oisterwijk
• "Renée" Marie Marguerite Savary de Beauregard (76)
• Leontine Maria van Duijse (69), Koewacht
• Adriana Niessen (82), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Leontina Maria van Duijse (69), Stoppeldijk
• Agnes Lillian Owens (57), Red Bud, Randolph Co., IL
• Jan (Jankje) Alberts Slottje (75), Enschede

• 1960 » Boris Dugan, Estonian footballer and coach
• 1960 » Claire Fox, English author and academic
• 1961 » Aldo Costa, Italian engineer
• 1961 » Anke Behmer, German heptathlete
• 1961 » Anthony Burger, American singer and pianist († 2006)
• 1961 » Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress († 1999)
• 1961 » Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis player and coach
• 1962 » Jeff Garlin, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Tõnis Lukas, Estonian historian and politician, 34th Estonian Minister of Education
• 1964 » Lisa Cholodenko, American director and screenwriter

• 1930 » Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (b. 1880)
• 1930 » Pascin, Bulgarian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
• 1934 » Emily Dobson, Australian philanthropist (b. 1842)
• 1934 » William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1871)
• 1947 » Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish-American actor and director (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Arthur Biram, Israeli philologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1878)
• 1967 » Harry Brown, Australian public servant (b. 1878)
• 1993 » Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1933)
• 1997 » J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist and author (b. 1933)

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 1 » Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
• February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
• 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.
• September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
• October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles 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 June 5, 1962 was between 4.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.