About the day » Wednesday January 3, 1962Calender converter

• N.N Beek, Georgetown Township (Ottawa County) (Michigan) († 1962)
• Kind Jacobus van Beers, Bladel en Netersel
• Tonnie Peter Scholten, Den Helder († 1995)
• Arjan Verveer, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Peter Arisz († 1973)
• Mark PHILIPS († 2009)
• Frederik Brugmans, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2023)
• Eppo Bernard Noor, Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands († 1962)
• Cornelis Vincenten, Prinsenbeek
• Louis Carolus Antonius de Haan, Valkenswaard,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)

• Pieter Cornelis de Groot (71), Marken
• Bastiaan Brussaard (62), Oud Beijerland, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
• Antonius Dikmans (71), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Baudina Aukes Spoor (85), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Augustine Marie Dupagne (80), Landenne-Sur-Meuse
• Allen Fenstermaker (26)
• AUGUSTA STEELANDT (65), OOSTROZEBEKE
• Albert Uiterwijk Winkel (56), Klazienaveen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bauke GAASTRA (78), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Winkel (56), Klazienaveen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1958 » Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean actor, director, and producer
• 1960 » Russell Spence, English racing driver
• 1962 » Darren Daulton, American baseball player († 2017)
• 1962 » Gavin Hastings, Scottish rugby player
• 1963 » Aamer Malik, Pakistani cricketer
• 1963 » Alex Wheatle, English author and playwright
• 1963 » Stewart Hosie, Scottish businessman and politician
• 1964 » Bruce LaBruce, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 » Cheryl Miller, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 » Chetan Sharma, Indian cricketer

• 1956 » Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1864)
• 1958 » Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, author, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1960 » Eric P. Kelly, American journalist, author, and academic (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Milton Avery, American painter (b. 1885)
• 1966 » Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (b. 1944)
• 1967 » Jack Ruby, American businessman and murderer (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress (b. 1874)
• 1967 » Reginald Punnett, British scientist (b. 1875)

• 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 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
• August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
• October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
• October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
• October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
• November 17 » President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.

The temperature on January 3, 1962 was between -6.2 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.