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• Steven Louis Leijgraaf, Haarlem Noord-Holland († 2009)
• Wilma~Klaasd Bak, Broek op L'dijk († 1962)
• Kimberly van Zoest, Willard, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1965)
• Wilma Bak, Broek op Langedijk († 1962)
• Jeffrey Neal APON, Witchita, Sedgwick, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Cornelia Geertruida Catharina Maria Hamers, Waalwijk († 2017)
• Wilma Bak, Broek op Langedijk († 1962)
• Kimberly van Zoest, Willard (Huron County) (Ohio) († 1965)
• Forrest Neal Jr, Monroe County, Mississippi, United States of America († 2005)
• Shayne Adam Berry, Wagner, Charles County, South Dakota († 1982)

• Aaltje Adriana van Woerden (92), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Antonia Beekmans (71), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnolda Arnoldussen (86), Bloemendaal
• Anje Katharina Berghuis (87), Uithuizermeeden
• Aaltje Adriana van Woerden (92), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adda "Addie" Brower Conklin (92), Brownwood, Brown, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anne (Anno) Hettinga (77), Blauwhuis (wymbritseradeel), Friesland, Nederland
• Aartje van der Veer (82)
• Antje van Maassen (76), -
• Anno Douwes Hettinga (77), Blauwhuis

• 1958 » Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
• 1959 » Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
• 1959 » Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
• 1959 » Sarah, Duchess of York
• 1959 » Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 » Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1964 » Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1965 » Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer († 2013)
• 1966 » Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager

• 1958 » Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
• 1959 » Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
• 1960 » Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1963 » Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
• 1964 » Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1966 » Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)

• 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 7 » The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
• July 30 » The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
• October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
• 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 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

The temperature on October 15, 1962 was between 4.9 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.