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• Vera Maria Theresia van der Vegt, Rotterdam († 1990)
• Garth McDonald (Hash Pash) LEIGHTON († 2021)
• Pol Jozef Jeroom Vandecaveye, Roeselare West Vlaanderen België († 2021)
• Catharina Roeline Overbeek
• Timothy P Adams, Kendallville, Noble County, Indiana, United States of America († 2014)
• Albert de Vogüé († 1964)
• Christophe Bertin († 1966)
• Atje Compaan, Zandeweer, Kantens, Groningen, Nederland († 1962)
• Jennifer Ann Breeland, Melbourne, Australie,AU († 1988)
• Adam James Stiles, Pontiac, Oakland Co. Michigan († 1967)

• Anna Udink ten Cate (78), Enschede
• Catharina Dorothea van As (82), Potchefstroom, Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa
• André Mur (6), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Marinus Bossink (44), Tubbergen, 7651, Nederland
• Adriana Helena Rijnvis (67), Voorschoten
• Adriaan van Cadsand (67), Zaamslag (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Bernadus Pleij (59), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Etten (85), Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertien Beijering (71), Ees (Borger)
• Bertus Verboom (68)

• 1958 » Andy Reid, American football player and coach
• 1960 » Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1962 » Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican-American baseball player († 2003)
• 1963 » Neil LaBute, American director and screenwriter
• 1964 » Jake Weber, English actor
• 1964 » Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1966 » Andy Sinton, English international footballer, midfielder and manager
• 1966 » Michael Crockart, Scottish police officer and politician
• 1966 » Olaf Marschall, German footballer and manager
• 1967 » Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player

• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)
• 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1950 » Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (b. 1889)
• 1976 » Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 1977 » William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (b. 1888)
• 1978 » M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1891)

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 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
• May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
• June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
• October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
• October 28 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
• November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.

The temperature on March 19, 1962 was between -3.7 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.