About the day » Wednesday October 17, 1962Calender converter

• Johanna (Joke) Rozendaal, Nieuw Lekkerland († 1998)
• NN Mulder, Menaldumadeel
• Gerhard Wemke Sandker, Emmen († 1962)
• Margrit Edwina Rang, Nieuwer-Amstel
• René Alfreds Derksen († 1985)
• Angelique van der Steen, Berchem, Antwerpen, België († 1983)
• Jacobus Johannes Bavelaar, Delft († 1962)
• Thomas (Tom) Schilder, Nederland († 2018)
• Jean PAQUET, Rouyn-Noranda (Canada)
• Thomas SCHILDER († 2018)

• Anna GUEDJ (75), Constantine, Algérie
• Anje Knot (88), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Augustinus Josephus Cornelis Verhagen (51), Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Hollants (84), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adeline Kok (72), Utrecht
• Cornelia Wilhelmina van Gulik (69), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andreas Gerardus Laarakker (78), Breda
• Arie van den Heuvel (75), Werkendam
• Antonetta Diederika de Nekker (72)
• Albertine Audet dit Lapointe (75)

• 1960 » Bernie Nolan, Irish singer († 2013)
• 1960 » Guy Henry, English actor
• 1960 » Philippe Sands, American lawyer and academic
• 1960 » Rob Marshall, American director, producer, and choreographer
• 1961 » David Means, American short story writer
• 1962 » Glenn Braggs, American baseball player
• 1962 » Jay Humphries, American basketball player
• 1962 » Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor
• 1963 » Sergio Goycochea, Argentinian footballer and journalist
• 1963 » Toby Young, English journalist and academic

• 1955 » Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1873)
• 1956 » Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (b. 1920)
• 1958 » Charlie Townsend, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
• 1962 » Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1865)
• 1965 » Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Sidney Hatch, American runner and soldier (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Wieland Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1917)
• 1967 » Puyi, Chinese emperor (b. 1906)

• 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.
• January 11 » Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
• March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
• March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
• March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11​⁄₂ day constitutional crisis.
• July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
• December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.

The temperature on October 17, 1962 was between 6.6 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.