About the day » Tuesday May 8, 1962Calender converter

• Peter Storms, Lier, 2500, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2011)
• Petronella Alida Jacoba Alkemade, Noordwijk († 2004)
• Rodney Andrew SCOTT, King Island, Tasmania, Australia († 1984)
• petra Mögenburg, straelen-herongen
• Edwin Janse, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2001)
• Petra Dorussen, Woezik,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1982)
• Els (E.C.M.) Staadegaard, Lieshout († 2018)
• Christa Ensink, Hengelo († 2009)
• Doodgeboren kind Thelen, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland († 1962)
• Yvonne Elisabeth Antonia Maria de Haan, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Abel van Eerden (88), Siddeburen, Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland
• Carolus Verhoeven (86), Weelde België
• Adriana Petronilla Timmers (75), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Maria Hendriksen (86)
• Caroline Bronson (85), Cabell Co.West Virginia
• Coenraad Johannes "Coen" Honig (65), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Neven (90), Borgloon, België
• * Helena Johanna Peijnenburg (49), Eindhoven
• Alida Adriana Snoek (81), Ouderkerk aan de Amstel
• Adriana Maria van der Heul (63), Groningen

• 1961 » Bill de Blasio, American politician, 109th Mayor of New York City
• 1961 » David Winning, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Gert Kruys, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1961 » Vallo Reimaa, Estonian academic and politician
• 1962 » David Sole, Scottish rugby player
• 1962 » Natalia Molchanova, Russian diver († 2015)
• 1963 » Anthony Field, Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1963 » Izabela Kloc, Polish politician
• 1963 » Michel Gondry, French director and screenwriter
• 1963 » Sylvain Cossette, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1948 » U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician and immunologist (b. 1865)
• 1952 » William Fox, Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (b. 1879)
• 1959 » John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
• 1960 » J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Wally Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)
• 1972 » Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)
• 1972 » Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Avery Brundage, American businessman and art collector (b. 1887)

• 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.
• August 16 » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
• August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
• September 15 » The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 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.
• December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.

The temperature on May 8, 1962 was between 9.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.