About the day » Sunday December 16, 1962Calender converter

• Marleen Segers, Kruibeke († 2014)
• Tinus Groen, (F)
• Linda Heeren, Sint-Truiden, België († 2024)
• Elisabeth de Boer, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1993)
• Elsje Macharis, Aalst-Oost Vlaanderen († 1963)
• Dennis Theodore Lassin Jr., Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• William Eric McGill, Wichita Falls, Texas, VS († 2011)
• René Antoon Martin Leenders, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Christian Toet, Berlijn, Duitsland († 1992)

• Albert Parent (65), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Adriaan Abraham Joppe (92), Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Zoeteman (74), Dordrecht Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Bastiaantje van Meeteren (68), Giessenburg
• Catharina Duchateau (87), Herderen (B)
• Alexandrina Berentemfel (47), Dordrecht
• Adriaan Abraham JOPPE (92), Scherpenisse,Gemeente Tholen,ZEELAND,NETHERLANDS
• ANNA (Johanna Maria) de KORT (76), Vught, Nederland
• Antje VERDUIN (88), Uitgeest
• Barend van Keppel (66), Leiden

• 1961 » André Andersen, Russian-Danish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1961 » Bill Hicks, American comedian and musician († 1994)
• 1961 » Jon Tenney, American actor and director
• 1961 » LaChanze, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1961 » Shane Black, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Maruschka Detmers, Dutch-French actress
• 1962 » William Perry, American football player and wrestler
• 1963 » Benjamin Bratt, American actor and producer
• 1963 » Cathy Johnston-Forbes, American golfer
• 1963 » James Mangold, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1952 » Robert Henry Best, American journalist (b. 1896)
• 1956 » Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter and author (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Hans Rebane, Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1882)
• 1965 » W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1874)
• 1968 » Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (b. 1912)
• 1968 » Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian general and politician (b. 1916)
• 1969 » Alphonse Castex, French rugby union player (b. 1899)
• 1969 » Soe Hok Gie, Indonesian activist and academic (b. 1942)
• 1970 » Oscar Lewis, American anthropologist of Latin America (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)

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. Monique
12. Karin
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.
• July 9 » Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.
• September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
• October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
• October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
• December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
• 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 December 16, 1962 was between 3.3 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.