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• Hendrik Jacob Hollander, Ketelhaven († 1974)
• Jeanette Catharina van de Water, IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland († 1997)
• Jolande Molenaar, Rotterdam († 1962)
• Levenloos van Berlo, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Steven Justin Bruner, Greenville, Darke, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Scott Derek Allinder († 1962)
• Gea Vedelaar
• David Edward Abels († 1996)
• Ronny Hendrik den Braber, Rotterdam, Nederland († 2004)
• Margaretha (Marga) Snippe, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• Anna Josepha Augusta Voss zuster (77), Maastricht, Lim, Nederland
• Adriana Brouwers (62), Breda
• Anna Petronella Knippenbergh (77), Overloon
• Ari van der Hoek (95), De Krim
• Anna Aleida Wassink (66), Dordrecht, Dordrecht, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antje Hendriks (83), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Hoos (77), Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Arnoldina Maas (77), Gemert
• Aagje Aafjes (56), Leeuwarden
• Abel Everts van Til (82), Oldekerk

• 1960 » Kōichi Satō, Japanese actor
• 1960 » Kenneth Branagh, Northern Ireland-born English actor director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Mark McKoy, Canadian hurdler and sprinter
• 1961 » Nia Peeples, American singer and actress
• 1962 » John de Wolf, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1962 » Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and diplomat († 2015)
• 1963 » Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player
• 1963 » Robin White, American tennis player
• 1964 » Stef Blok, Dutch banker and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior
• 1964 » Stephen Billington, English actor

• 1953 » Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and translator (b. 1891)
• 1957 » Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (b. 1891)
• 1958 » Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist (b. 1864)
• 1963 » K. M. Panikkar, Indian historian and diplomat (b. 1894)
• 1967 » Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941)
• 1968 » George Forrest, Northern Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
• 1968 » Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
• 1972 » Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1894)

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.
• 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.
• July 12 » The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
• September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
• October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
• 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 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

The temperature on December 10, 1962 was between 4.0 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.