About the day » Saturday May 5, 1962Calender converter

• Susan Butler, Grand Forks, Grand Forks, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Charles Jay Cnossen († 2000)
• Steven James PETTEY, Linton, IN
• Matheus Franciscus Anna Schumann, Weert, Limburg, Nederland († 2018)
• Cacilda Heil, Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2001)
• Christophe Hérick Suzanne Jean Hyacinthe Marie Ghislain Bisilliat Donnet, Ukkel († 2012)
• Arie Visser († 1970)
• Stillborn Child DE VROOME, Assen (NL/DR) († 1962)
• Maria Gerarda Jacoba Johanna Simons, Breda
• Jacqueline Denise Chadwell, Corbin, Whitley, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2002)

• Albert Kleine (93), Hoogeveen nederland
• Arnoldus Gregorius Copier (91), Stoutenburg
• Bernardus Johannes Maria Smits (67), Tilburg
• Anna Gertruda Theodora Brueren (64)
• Anna Hegemann (72), Werne, Unna, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• August Mayer (64)
• Anna Boonacker (73), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alidoor Blondeel (79), Zepperen
• Anna Maenen (61), Maaseik (B)
• Anthonie Christiaan BESTENBREUR (74), Bloemendaal

• 1960 » Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1961 » Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician
• 1961 » Marg Downey, Australian actress
• 1961 » Rob Williams, American basketball player († 2014)
• 1962 » Kaoru Wada, Japanese composer and conductor
• 1963 » James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1963 » Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer
• 1963 » Simon Rimmer, English chef and author
• 1964 » Heike Henkel, German high jumper
• 1964 » Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget

• 1947 » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1957 » Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1965 » John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1971 » Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)

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 26 » Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400km).
• May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
• July 6 » The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
• August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
• September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
• October 9 » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.

The temperature on May 5, 1962 was between 2.7 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.