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• Gary Norman Statzer, South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• Dawn Ranae Viet, Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa († 2018)
• Kees Winde
• Ineke Hagen, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1967)
• NN Georg, Groningen
• Gerben Meiboom († 1991)
• Klaas Cornelis van der Meer, Oosterend (Texel, NH) († 1963)
• Sijtze Koolstra († 1976)
• Wilma Sophia Hoogakker, Utrecht († 2016)
• Patrick Roofthooft, Mechelen, 2800, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2007)

• Anna Catharina Dingema Kraan (60), Amsterdam
• Albertina Coone (72), Budel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Annette Reuter (85), Amsterdam
• Anthonie Van Wilgenburg (70), Terschuur, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonetta Helena van Dijk (64), Puiflijk
• Adrianus Mattheus Van Gessel (83), 't Zand
• Adelia Ariele (86), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• Albertje Jans de Boer (85), ,,, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Bernardus_Johannes Kemmeren (64), Loon op Zand
• Bessie L Edney (65), North Carolina, Verenigde Staten

• 1960 » Derrick Jensen, American author and activist
• 1960 » Michelangelo Signorile, American journalist and author
• 1961 » Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1961 » Matthew Waterhouse, English actor and author
• 1961 » Reggie White, American football player and wrestler († 2004)
• 1962 » Gary Fleder, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Jennifer Beals, American model and actress
• 1963 » Til Schweiger, German actor, director, and producer
• 1964 » Béatrice Dalle, French actress
• 1964 » Lorie Kane, Canadian golfer

• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1968 » Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
• 1982 » Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 » Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)

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 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
• May 10 » Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
• June 7 » The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
• 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.
• December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.

The temperature on December 19, 1962 was between -0.7 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.