About the day » Thursday August 9, 1962Calender converter

• Theresia Jacoba Maria Hofman, Bergen op Zoom († 1962)
• Kimberly Lynn "Kim" Sickles, Terra Haute, Vigo Co., IN († 2003)
• Tracie Jones
• Gerardus Johannes Stappers, Amsterdam, Noordholland, Nederland
• Erik Hermanus Bernardus Diepenmaat († 2004)
• Frédérique-Renata de Stolberg-Wernigerode, Francfort-sur-le-Main, 06412, Allemagne († 1969)
• Barbara Kittrell Ferguson <?K?PqOb>3, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee († 2010)
• Jeannet van Lent, Hoornaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes A. Heijgen († 1993)
• Gerritje Buter, Wapenveld (Gem. Heerde) († 2006)

• Betty Jo Poeppel <KBKB>2 (31), Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
• Aart Schippers (82), Epe
• Anthonius Marinus Zorn (74), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dirk van der Weij (78), St. Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Stuut (70), Lodi, California, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis van den Heuvel (71)
• Albert Marius Willem Rauwerda (74), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Nuijten, Bergen op Zoom
• Coert Hendrik Daniëls (82), Amsterdam
• Arie van Kalken (83), Utrecht, Nederland

• 1961 » Brad Gilbert, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1961 » John Key, New Zealand businessman and politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1962 » John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player († 2015)
• 1962 » Kevin Mack, American football player
• 1962 » Louis Lipps, American football player and radio host
• 1963 » Barton Lynch, Australian surfer
• 1963 » Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1963 » Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress († 2012)
• 1964 » Brett Hull, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1964 » Hoda Kotb, American journalist and television personality

• 1949 » Edward Thorndike, American psychologist and academic (b. 1874)
• 1957 » Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (b. 1898)
• 1962 » Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 » Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 » C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)

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.
• April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
• May 19 » A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
• August 31 » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
• 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.
• November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

The temperature on August 9, 1962 was between 6.9 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.