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• Henri Georget, Wakaw, Saskatchewan, Canada († 1962)
• Erna Langerwerf († 1994)
• Catharina Jozephina Laurentia Marie Wijnands, Ulestraten († 2007)
• Doortje Barendse, Amsterdam († 2016)
• NN Kollmer, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bianca Christina Wilma de Beurs, Dordrecht
• Hendrik Klasens, Borger († 2008)
• Hendrik Klasens, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Sijke Bergsma, Drachten († 1962)
• Gary John Matthews, Shoreditch Hoxton New, London, England († 1990)

• Aaltje KAPTEIJN (78), Assendelft, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardina Pieternella Maria Berkhout (75), Stoutenburg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida de Wit (89), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Clazina Johanna van den Berg (86), Naaldwijk
• Anna Verbeek (65)
• Arie Dirk Kreukniet (79), Hardinxveld, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida de Wit (89), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aalt Fidder (67), Nunspeet
• Bernardus Ensing (68)
• Aaltje Kapitein (78), Assendelft

• 1959 » Clayton Anderson, American engineer and astronaut
• 1959 » Ian Liddell-Grainger, Scottish soldier and politician
• 1959 » Linda Nolan, Irish singer and actress
• 1959 » Nick de Bois, English politician
• 1960 » Naruhito, Emperor of Japan
• 1962 » Michael Wilton, American guitarist
• 1963 » Bobby Bonilla, American baseball player
• 1963 » Radosław Sikorski, Polish journalist and politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
• 1964 » John Norum, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter
• 1965 » Michael Dell, American businessman

• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1976 » L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
• 1979 » W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)

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.
• February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
• August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
• October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
• November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.

The temperature on February 23, 1962 was between -2.8 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.