About the day » Sunday March 11, 1962Calender converter

• Edwin Bleyenberg, Sluiskil († 1963)
• Glenn Murray
• Marinel van Antwerpen, 's-Gravenzande († 2011)
• Berrie Hoekstra, Witten, Drenthe, Nederland
• Tonny Grote Punt († 2022)
• Robin Michael Bowring Egerton († 1988)
• Harman Berend Boertien, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1962)
• Albine van der Pol, Hoogeveen († 1963)
• Albine van der Pol, Hoogeveen († 1963)
• Jacques Johannes Kriegenbergh, von, Enschede († 1962)

• Camillus ALLIET (85), Zwevezele, Vlaams Gewest, België
• Anna Maria Reul (59), Heerlen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Klootwijk
• "Cor" Cornelia Hermina Berning (69), Zevenaar
• Berend Hoiting (71), Hoogkerk
• Albertus Lourentius de Wals (84)
• Carl William August Hoffman (73), Sparta, Monroe Co., Wisconsin
• Adriaan de Ridder (67), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Andriesje Oosterhof (89)
• Alice Elizabeth Scott (52)

• 1960 » Christophe Gans, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Junichi Sato, Japanese animator and director
• 1960 » Warwick Taylor, New Zealand rugby player
• 1961 » Bruce Watson, Canadian-Scottish guitarist
• 1961 » Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
• 1962 » Mary Gauthier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Matt Mead, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of Wyoming
• 1963 » Alex Kingston, English actress
• 1963 » David LaChapelle, American photographer and director
• 1963 » Gary Barnett, English footballer and manager

• 1955 » Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1955 » Oscar F. Mayer, German-American businessman, founded Oscar Mayer (b. 1859)
• 1957 » Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and explorer (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded The Lego Group (b. 1891)
• 1959 » Lester Dent, American author (b. 1904)
• 1960 » Roy Chapman Andrews, American paleontologist and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Harry Altham, English cricketer, historian and coach (b. 1888)
• 1967 » Geraldine Farrar, American soprano and actress (b. 1882)
• 1968 » Haşim İşcan, Turkish educator and politician, 18th Mayor of İstanbul (b. 1898)
• 1969 » John Daly, Irish runner (b. 1880)

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.
• March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
• August 7 » Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
• August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
• November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
• December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
• December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

The temperature on March 11, 1962 was between 1.2 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 18.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.