About the day » Saturday January 6, 1962Calender converter

• Carine van Nieuwenhuyse, Brugge, België
• Huub Theunissen, Koningsbosch, Netherlands († 2015)
• Nico Boekestijn († 2000)
• Timo Ruhof, Ommen († 2022)
• Anita van Gils, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1965)
• Jolanda Dirven
• Robert Klomp, Beekbergen, Gelderland, NL († 2022)
• Bea van Winsen, Tilburg, Nederland († 1998)
• Minze Boltje († 2011)
• Anita van Gils, Goirle († 1965)

• Agatha_Maria_Johanna Overvoorde (81), Delft
• Aaron Scott Gudmundson (69), Alameda, Alameda County, California, United States of America
• Agnes Johanna van Ardenne (41), Gouda
• adriaantje dina KRUIK (77), rotterdam
• Abraham Alexander "Able" Todd ?**** (82), Salt Lake County, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Baartje Herbert (62)
• August Benedict Van Laer (33), Bornem
• Alexandre Louis DESSART (84), Visé,4600,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Betje Remminga (84), 't Zandt
• Alida Bertha Demeulenaere (65), Roeselare

• 1959 » Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
• 1960 » Howie Long, American football player and sports commentator
• 1960 » Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 » Nigella Lawson, English chef and author
• 1960 » Paul Azinger, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1961 » Georges Jobé, Belgian motocross racer († 2012)
• 1961 » Peter Whittle, British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster
• 1963 » Norm Charlton, American baseball player and coach
• 1963 » Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan runner († 1995)
• 1964 » Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler and manager

• 1942 » Emma Calvé, French soprano and actress (b. 1858)
• 1944 » Ida Tarbell, American journalist, reformer, and educator (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (b. 1878)
• 1945 » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)
• 1949 » Victor Fleming, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Jean Lurçat, French painter (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (b. 1901)
• 1974 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)

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 1 » Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
• March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
• March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
• August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
• September 6 » Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
• October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.

The temperature on January 6, 1962 was between 0.1 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.