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• Roland Crebolder, Utrecht, UT Netherlands († 1994)
• Keith Eugene Boot († 1966)
• Dwayne Brown, Thibodaux († 2018)
• Floyd William Card († 2007)
• N.N. van der Ende, de Lier
• Monique Graat († 1972)
• Harmen van der Woude († 1985)
• Harmanna Nantiena Nienhuis († 1963)
• Frieda Sara Maria Blokesch, Amsterdam
• Renée Kootkar, Rotterdam († 2012)

• Arie van Luik (57), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Mathilda Asselman (57), Roosendaal
• Adriana den Boer (77), Vlissingen, Gemeente Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Baukje Thomas de Haan (89), Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Veldhuizen (82), Barneveld
• Aart van Spijkeren (62)
• Barendina Johanna HENKES (73), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ale Keimpes DILLEMA (84), Port Alberni British Columbia Canada
• Aaltje van Veldhuizen (82), Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aldert Maarse (66)

• 1961 » Ed Gillespie, American political strategist
• 1961 » Gary Kubiak, American football player and coach
• 1961 » Matt Johnson, English singer-songwriter and musician
• 1961 » Suhasini Maniratnam, Indian actress and screenwriter
• 1962 » Inês Pedrosa, Portuguese writer
• 1962 » Rıdvan Dilmen, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1962 » Tom Colicchio, American chef and author
• 1962 » Vilja Savisaar-Toomast, Estonian lawyer and politician
• 1963 » Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Simon Hart, Welsh soldier and politician

• 1945 » Fred Hockley, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of the Army (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1962 » Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
• 1967 » René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Clay Shaw, American businessman (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Harun Karadeniz, Turkish political activist and author (b. 1942)
• 1975 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)

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.
• June 7 » The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
• August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
• October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
• November 17 » President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
• 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 15, 1962 was between 14.2 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.