About the day » Saturday March 17, 1962Calender converter

• NN Peeters, SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Egbert Schonewille, Bergentheim, Hardenberg († 2004)
• Egbert Schonewille († 2004)
• Alfred Nico Pals, Harlingen († 2008)
• Onbekend Lahou, Maastricht, Nederland
• Berry LIEFTINK († 2022)
• Arnoldus Bernardus Huis In 'T Veld, Vaassen († 1964)
• Luc Oscar Duthoo, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, Belgium († 2014)
• Arnoldus Bernardus Huis in 't Veld, Vaassen († 1964)
• Monique Degraef, Sint-Truiden, België († 2022)

• Arie Gerardus Blokland (48), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Henricus Hermsen (68), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Lohe (69)
• Aaltje Klazes de Vries (82), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje de BOER (82), Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Beno Etsko Veldkamp (28), Groningen
• Bernard Aehlen, Nordhorn
• Ara Adna Gill (73), Eunice, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States of America
• Alida Hendrika van Zadelhoff (39), Utrecht
• Antje Grooten (72), Tweede Exloërmond (Drenthe)

• 1960 » Arye Gross, American actor
• 1961 » Casey Siemaszko, American actor
• 1961 » Dana Reeve, American actress, singer, and activist († 2006)
• 1961 » Sam Bowie, American basketball player
• 1962 » Ank Bijleveld, Dutch politician
• 1962 » Carsten Almqvist, Swedish business executive
• 1962 » Clare Grogan, Scottish singer and actress
• 1962 » Janet Gardner, American singer and guitarist
• 1962 » Rob Sitch, Australian actor, director, and producer
• 1963 » Roger Harper, Guyanese cricketer and coach

• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)
• 1961 » Susanna M. Salter, American activist and politician (b. 1860)
• 1965 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862)
• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)

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.
• April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
• July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
• July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
• September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
• September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.

The temperature on March 17, 1962 was between -3.7 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.