About the day » Saturday August 25, 1962Calender converter

• Steven Craig Ballintijn, Sydney(Australië)
• Karina van Baalen, 's-Gravenzande († 2018)
• Leroy DeVries, USA († 2019)
• Linda Sue Achterhof, Patterson, NJ
• Angelique Merianne Burer, Amsterdam
• Kelvin John Navis, Waupun Dodge Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Andrew Martin Mutsaers, Woodstock (Ontario, Canada) († 1981)
• Karine van Baalen († 2018)
• Mark SCHOUPS, Tongeren (Limburg) (B) († 1988)
• Kornelis Huizenga

• Cornelis Kuijt (52), Amersfoort
• Catharina Geertruida van den Haak (83), Haarlem
• Cornelia Maaike Vrijhof (65), Rotterdam
• Dorothea Alfrieda Hennig (69)
• Dirk Jan SCHOLTEN (83)
• Focke S. Klein (55), Den Dolder
• Ernest Blane Kisner (76)
• Antoon (Toon) Dubbelman (54), Rotterdam, Nederland
• David Levi Melton (74), Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina
• Elizabeth Tammenga (Tamminga) (62), Vries, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1960 » Georg Zellhofer, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1961 » Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1961 » Joanne Whalley, English actress
• 1962 » Michael Zorc, German footballer
• 1962 » Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi author
• 1962 » Theresa Andrews, American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion
• 1962 » Vivian Campbell, Northern Irish rock guitarist and songwriter
• 1963 » Miro Cerar, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia
• 1963 » Shock G, American rapper and producer
• 1963 » Tiina Intelmann, Estonian lawyer and diplomat

• 1956 » Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (b. 1879)
• 1967 » George Lincoln Rockwell, American commander, politician, and activist, founded the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Oscar Cabalén, Argentine race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1967 » Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1910)
• 1969 » Robert Cosgrove, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1884)
• 1970 » Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Ted Lewis, American singer and clarinet player (b. 1890)

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.
• February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
• August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
• September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
• November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.
• December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
• December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

The temperature on August 25, 1962 was between 13.7 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.