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• Wendy May HILL, King Island, Tasmania, Australia († 1971)
• Joke van IJzeren, Krimpen aan de IJssel, NL
• Hendrika Bieshuizen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• dorothea henrica maria (door) smets, venlo
• Geralt Drenth, Emmen († 1968)
• Louis Gerard Everhard Laproi, Oldebroek († 2018)
• Sophia Janine Ederveen, Baarn († 2009)
• Wienik Mulder, Staverden († 2022)
• Randall James van Dyke, Morris, Stevens County, Minnesota († 2025)
• Silvia Pruis, amsterdam († 1963)

• Anna Barbara Briffort (80), Terwinselen, Limburg, Nederland
• Andries Baumfalk (86), Leeuwarden
• Aldegonda Petronella Maria de Lorijn (66), Den Haag
• Aloysius Antonius Verdonck (60), Sint-Niklaas
• Arnold Thomassen (62), Ederveen
• Alfons de Vrij (39), Brecht, België
• Agnes Grooms Poe (40), Charleston, Dorchester, South Carolina, United States
• Adrianus Volker (81), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Groot Breteler (72), Stad Delden
• Arthur Forrest Puny Gerhart (73)

• 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)

• 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.
• March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
• July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
• October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
• November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
• December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
• December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.

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.