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• van Dijk, Alphen aan den Rijn, ZH, Nederland († 2008)
• Michael Toepoel, Hoorn († 2004)
• Jacqueline Antonia Helena Stolzenbach, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2006)
• Alex VERNIERS, Gent († 1991)
• Charles Howard STACK, Pontiac († 1962)
• Dean Martin HOWARD († 2009)
• Jamie Ann Hancock († 1962)
• Count Kraft of Erbach Fürstenau, Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen († 1980)
• Johanna Elisabeth Theodora van Dijk, Alphen aan den Rijn, Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland, Netherlands († 2008)
• Johanna Elizabeth Theodora van Dijk, Alphen aan den Rijn, Nederland († 2008)

• Anne Erika Hansdatter (91), Ryeng, Vestvatn, Misvær, Bodø, Nordland, Norge
• Adriaan Cornelis Riemens (87), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Sonneveld (64), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antje Pietersma (62)
• Aleida Lammerdina de Vries (59), Wassenaar
• Celest Modest Verslype (83), Klerken
• Carl Victor Helge Benvenuto Bergman (87), Stockholm, Stockholm, Uppland, Sweden
• Betty Nieuwenhuis (2)
• Catherina Hubertina (Cato) Knapen (83), Weert
• Alfons Moons (80)

• 1959 » Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 » Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1961 » Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 » Rick Steiner, American wrestler
• 1963 » Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1963 » Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1964 » Juliette Binoche, French actress
• 1964 » Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1965 » Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor

• 1943 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1954 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

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.
• May 31 » The West Indies Federation dissolves.
• June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
• July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
• July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
• August 7 » Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
• November 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

The temperature on March 9, 1962 was between 1.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.