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• Chrittiën Weijzen († 1982)
• Otto Doppenberg, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1978)
• N.N. Roos, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eric Dupas, Rukkelingen-Loon, België († 2022)
• Govert Jan van der Schuit, Gorinchem († 1974)
• Glenn Peter BRUXVOORT, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Maria C (Ria) Tol, Volendam
• Otto Doppenberg († 1978)
• Berendinus Gils, Hijken, Beilen († 2022)

• Alphonsius Boeckx (70), Westmalle (B)
• Augusta Mary Stein (89)
• Aldegonda Thresa Maria Ruding (47), Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aldegond Thresa Maria Ruding- (47), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Antje Dirkdr Evers (68), Amersfoort
• Audrey Cathleen Chisholm (61)
• Aloysius Michielsen (60)
• Clara Maria De Coninck (62), Kruishoutem
• Alex Douglas Smith (67), Forsyth County, NC
• Aldegonda Theresia Maria Ruding (47), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1953 » Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1953 » Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
• 1954 » Catherine Bach, American actress
• 1954 » Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 » Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 6th President of Lithuania
• 1956 » Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 » Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1959 » Nick Griffin, English politician
• 1961 » Mike Rozier, American football player
• 1966 » Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1942 » George S. Rentz, American commander (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
• 1952 » Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (b. 1873)
• 1966 » Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (b. 1935)
• 1976 » Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
• 1978 » Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1979 » Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (b. 1940)

• 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.
• March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
• May 10 » Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
• August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
• September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
• December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

The temperature on March 1, 1962 was between -1.0 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.