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• Sophia Janine Ederveen, Baarn († 2009)
• NN Alsemgeest, Delft († 1962)
• Timothy Lynn Mansperger, Galion, Ohio († 1962)
• Hendrika Bieshuizen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Colette R.L.M. Gruijter de, Vugt, NB, Nederland († 2009)
• Marina Johanna Stolze, Monster († 2017)
• Marie Françoise LEPERLIER, Saint-Paul,97428,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1962)
• Silvia Pruis, amsterdam († 1963)
• Geralt Drenth, Emmen († 1968)
• Louis Gerard Everhard Laproi, Oldebroek († 2018)

• Andries Johans Baumfalk (86), Ljouwert, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Schuurman (47), Assen
• Anton Marie Koekebacker (72), Amsterdam
• Albert Jacobs Heida (80), Tjalleberd, Nederland
• Arthur Charles Henderer (44), Coral Gables, Dade Co., Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria van Alphen (78), Etten-Leur
• Arend van de Beld (79), Utrecht, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Christina Oostelbos (67), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Unrau (70), Abbotsford (Fraser Valley), British Columbia, Canada
• Agnes G. Grooms (40), Charleston, Dorchester, South Carolina, United States

• 1957 » Patty Loveless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Matt Frewer, American-Canadian actor
• 1960 » Michael Stipe, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1963 » Dave Foley, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and producer
• 1963 » Martina Proeber, German diver
• 1964 » Susan Devoy, New Zealand squash player
• 1965 » Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-English dancer, choreographer, and director
• 1965 » Guy Forget, French tennis player
• 1965 » Julia Ormond, English actress and producer
• 1966 » Deana Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1941 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1943 » Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (b. 1911)
• 1944 » Kaj Munk, Danish playwright and pastor (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1962 » Hans Lammers, German jurist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » Donald Campbell, English racing driver and world speed record holder (b. 1921)
• 1969 » Paul Chambers, American bassist and composer (b. 1935)
• 1975 » Carlo Levi, Italian painter, author, and activist (b. 1902)

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.
• May 24 » Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
• May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
• September 6 » Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
• November 21 » The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Sino-Indian War.
• December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
• December 25 » The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

The temperature on January 4, 1962 was between -1.2 and 1.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.