About the day » Saturday June 16, 1962Calender converter

• Anneke Bolt, Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland († 2017)
• Don Allison Blair († 2005)
• Jerry van de Wetering, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)
• Val Kapp, Ogden, Weber, Utah (USA) († 2022)
• Yvonne Maria Margaretha van Bennekom, Warmond, Teylingen, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Bep Elshof († 2009)
• Dirk van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Jeffrey Albert Reijnhout, Utrecht, Nederland († 1963)
• Yvonne Maria Margaretha van Bennekom, Warmond († 2013)
• Carmen Annouska Saskia Raats, Invercargill New-Sealand († 2014)

• Albertus Zomer (59), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Franca Silva (73), Oakland, Alameda, California, Verenigde Staten
• de Ridder (73), kortenberg
• Carola Theodora Maria Assumta de Bruin (4), Amersfoort
• Albertus Zomer (59)
• Bartel Adriaan Kloet (80), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Jans Bogaard (69), Sneek, Friesland, Netherlands
• Alexandre Ferdinand August Francois Latour (67), Breda, Nederland
• Bertha Elodie BRACKE (67), Beverst (Limburg) (B)
• Albert Schimmel (72), Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1960 » Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1961 » Can Dündar, Turkish journalist and author
• 1961 » Margus Metstak, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1961 » Robbie Kerr, Australian cricketer
• 1961 » Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 » Anthony Wong, Hong Kong singer
• 1962 » Arnold Vosloo, South African-American actor
• 1962 » Wally Joyner, American baseball player and coach
• 1963 » The Sandman, American wrestler
• 1964 » Danny Burstein, American actor and singer

• 1953 » Margaret Bondfield, English politician, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (b. 1873)
• 1955 » Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter (b. 1864)
• 1958 » Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
• 1958 » Pál Maléter, Hungarian general and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (b. 1917)
• 1959 » George Reeves, American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1961 » Marcel Junod, Swiss physician and anesthesiologist (b. 1904)
• 1967 » Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1969 » Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1970 » Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)

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.
• July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
• July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
• August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
• October 11 » The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
• November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
• December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.

The temperature on June 16, 1962 was between 12.9 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.