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• Lia Lugenie van Spelden, Den Helder († 1963)
• Klaas Cornelis van der Meer, Oosterend
• Gerben Meiboom († 1991)
• Johan Bernard Van De Riet, enter
• Robert Rozenboom, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa († 2020)
• Eltjo van der Tuuk († 1964)
• Sijtze Koolstra († 1976)
• NN Georg, Groningen
• Carolien Tol
• Kees Winde

• Adrianus Mattheus Van Gessel (83), 't Zand
• Anna Catharina Dingema Kraan (60), Hilversum
• Bessie Lee Mills (66), Tryon, Polk, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Aloysius Hendrikus Maria ten Bolscher (69), zutphen
• Annie Ellis Seymour (91)
• Alberdina Virginie Johanna Kierdorff Kierdorff (78), Amsterdam
• Bouke Ipema (90), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Bessie Edner (65), Tryon, Polk, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus_Johannes Kemmeren (64), Loon op Zand
• Anthonie van Wilgenburg (70), Terschuur, Gelderland, Nederland

• 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)

• 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 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
• May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
• July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
• August 22 » The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
• September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
• December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

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.