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• Luc Pascal Marie Ghislain Lemmens, 3500 Hasselt, Limburg, BE († 2005)
• Michael Houston Whisenant, Shelby County, Tennessee († 1962)
• Maria Goverdina Anna Peinemann, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Johannes Gerardus Van Wijngaarden, Laren († 1962)
• Joanna Maria (Jeanette) op de Beke, Heerlen († 2010)
• Brian Garret Hoodjer († 2024)
• Dennis Wayne Johnson († 1963)
• Wilma Petra Langendoen († 2011)
• Catharina Margaretha John, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2005)
• Menno Kreeft († 1964)

• Antje van Leerdam (79), Zeist
• Alle Faber (75), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antonius Michael Oomen (80), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Agnes Winifred Miller (48)
• Andries van der Meulen (60), Oranjewoud, gem. Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Clara Clayton (67)
• Adrianus Kleef (66), Heiloo, North Holland, Netherlands
• Annie Hart (66)
• Arie Brinkman (61), Maassluis,-
• Bauke van der Bij (74), Highland, Lake, Indiana (USA)

• 1959 » Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1960 » Mark Durkan, Irish politician
• 1961 » Greg LeMond, American cyclist
• 1961 » Terri Nunn, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1962 » Jerome Kersey, American basketball player and coach († 2015)
• 1963 » Mark McClellan, American economist and politician
• 1963 » Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian-Swiss businessman and philanthropist
• 1963 » Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays, English singer-songwriter
• 1964 » Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1966 » Dany Boon, French actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1949 » Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
• 1955 » Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895)
• 1956 » Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1930)
• 1956 » Richie Powell, American pianist (b. 1931)
• 1957 » Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (b. 1909)
• 1958 » Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1958 » George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler (b. 1873)
• 1964 » Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman (b. 1889)
• 1967 » Françoise Dorléac, French actress and singer (b. 1942)

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.
• May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
• May 31 » The West Indies Federation dissolves.
• June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
• August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
• October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
• December 2 » Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.

The temperature on June 26, 1962 was between 9.6 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.