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• Lewis Pringle Williams († 2007)
• Roseanne Uthe († 2018)
• Michel de Groot, rotterdam, Nederland († 2012)
• Dianna Kay Northcutt, Muskogee, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Robert John Marshall III, Miami Florida, Verenigde Staten († 1968)
• Margaretha Kraaijeveld, Brandwijk († 1996)
• Daniel Jospeh Timmer, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 1995)
• Acsel Bosma († 2006)

• Afien Valk (65), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Carolina van Haastert (84), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• cornelis TANIS (61), herkingen
• Cornelia Petronella de Leeuw (68), Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Kuijt (63)
• Bliena de Grooth (88), Groningen
• Antonia Groeneveld (72), Rotterdam
• * Wilhelmus Brunold (60), Rotterdam
• Catharina Antonia Janssen (68), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberta van den Bos (70), Rhenen

• 1959 » David Shore, Canadian screenwriter and producer
• 1959 » Ian Maxtone-Graham, American screenwriter and producer
• 1959 » Julie Burchill, English journalist and author
• 1959 » Stephen Pearcy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 » Vince Clarke, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1962 » Scott Borchetta, American record executive and entrepreneur
• 1962 » Tom Cruise, American actor and producer
• 1964 » Yeardley Smith, American actress, voice actress, comedian and writer
• 1965 » Connie Nielsen, Danish-American actress
• 1965 » Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler († 2005)

• 1954 » Reginald Marsh, French-American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1898)
• 1954 » Siegfried Handloser, German physician and general (b. 1895)
• 1957 » Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1957 » Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (b. 1904)
• 1958 » Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1867)
• 1969 » Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1971 » Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (b. 1888)
• 1977 » Alexander Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1891)
• 1978 » James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)

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 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
• September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
• September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
• September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
• October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
• November 17 » President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.

The temperature on July 3, 1962 was between 9.5 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.