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• Johan Odiel Bardyn, Roeselare († 1977)
• João Carlos Pereira da Silva, Salto de Pirapora, São Paulo, Brasil († 1999)
• Robert Herman Staley, Detroit, Michigan
• Paul Alan Schermer, Buffalo, Wright, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Martine Bernar, Aarschot († 1993)
• Leonard van Blokland (Krul), Utrecht († 1993)
• Jan Breider, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2006)
• Hendrik de Vries, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2010)
• Rudolf Johannes Antonius VAN RIJNSOEVER, Maarn, Utrecht, Nederland († 1964)
• Helen Marie Donnett († 2013)

• Aart van Sliedrecht (62), Nieuwe-Tonge
• Adriaan van Popering (76), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth van Dissel (66), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agnes Hubertina Helena Nelissen (71), Maastricht
• Anna Maria van den Oetelaar (88), Sint-Michielsgestel
• Arie de Lange (85), Moerdijk
• Jantje Oelen (68), Hoogeveen
• Anna Catharina van de Sande (76), Eindhoven
• Antoon Hubert Bol (82), Kessel
• Anna Aukes Braunius (66), Oude Schouw, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1960 » Bill Johnson, American skier († 2016)
• 1960 » Laurie Graham, Canadian skier
• 1961 » Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian-American ice hockey player († 1999)
• 1961 » Mike Thackwell, New Zealand racing driver
• 1962 » Gary Stevens, English international footballer, defender and manager
• 1962 » MC Hammer, American rapper and actor
• 1962 » Mark Begich, American politician
• 1963 » Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Greek footballer
• 1963 » Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Mongolian journalist and politician, 4th President of Mongolia
• 1963 » Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor

• 1959 » Daniil Andreyev, Russian mystic and poet (b. 1906)
• 1959 » John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (b. 1894)
• 1959 » Riccardo Zanella, Italian politician (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Joseph Haas, German composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Aleksandr Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Nella Larsen, American nurse and author (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1966 » Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (b. 1902)

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.
• January 11 » Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
• February 5 » French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
• August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
• September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
• September 15 » The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.

The temperature on March 30, 1962 was between 4.5 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.