About the day » Saturday September 1, 1962Calender converter

• Ronald Tiebot († 1983)
• Jozef Jacobus Paauw, De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Mario Ward Cortes-Heredia, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California († 1962)
• wilhelmina petronella hubertina (wil) van horen, helden-beringe
• Francien Sengers († 1975)
• Ingeborg Woutrina Johanna Maria Appels, Culemborg († 1962)
• Dirk Blommers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Suzanne BARNEY (HAWKINS), Sheringham, Norfolk († 1982)
• Ronald Bernardus Antonius Tiebot († 1983)
• Lana Sue FORD, Rochester, Pennsylvania († 1962)

• Antonetta Cornelia Rutten (76), Oudenbosch
• Alphonsine Smisdom (83), Engelmanshoven, België
• Alida SCHUITEN (72), 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Aaldert Nijmeijer (79)
• Cornelis Gerardus de Wit (25), Den Helder
• Cornelis Faassen (55), Eindhoven, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Abrahamina Adriana Engelberts (84), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Auke de Graaf (64), Koog aan de Zaan, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Christina Pieternella Dane, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia (Kee) VAN ECK (85), Amsterdam

• 1960 » Karl Mecklenburg, American football player
• 1960 » Ralf Außem, German footballer and manager
• 1961 » Boney James, American saxophonist, composer, and producer
• 1961 » Christopher Ferguson, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1961 » Jeremy Farrar, British academic and educator; director of the Wellcome Trust
• 1961 » Pete DeCoursey, American journalist († 2014)
• 1962 » Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1962 » Tony Cascarino, English-Irish footballer
• 1963 » Stephen Kernahan, Australian footballer
• 1964 » Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1943 » Charles Atangana, Cameroonian ruler (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861)
• 1953 » Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866)
• 1967 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1970 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Alan Brown, English soldier (b. 1909)
• 1974 » Gerd Neggo, Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)

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.
• January 15 » Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
• 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 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
• July 30 » The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
• October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
• December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

The temperature on September 1, 1962 was between 6.2 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.