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• Hendrik de Vries, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2010)
• Robert Herman Staley, Detroit, Michigan
• Johan Odiel Bardyn, Roeselare († 1977)
• Geesje (Gea) Westerhoff, Borne, Overijssel, Nederland († 2018)
• Ana Filipa LENCASTRE DA VEIGA, Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela († 2017)
• Karin Wilhelmien Zantingh, Dedemsvaart († 2024)
• Leonard van Blokland (Krul), Utrecht († 1993)
• João Carlos Pereira da Silva, Salto de Pirapora, São Paulo, Brasil († 1999)
• Erik de Vries, Nieuw-Amsterdam († 2010)
• Jan Breider, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2006)

• Alida Visser (87), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van de Sande (76), Eindhoven
• Anddries Frederick van Gass (91)
• Anna Elisabeth van Dissel (66), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Annechina Janna Wijnholds (79), Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• antonius hubertus (antoon hubert) bol (82), kessel
• Alois Gregorius Peeters (83), Essen Horendonk, Antwerpen, België
• Andreas WEITENBERG (72), Dronrijp
• Anna Maria van den Oetelaar (88), Sint-Michielsgestel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andreas Kornelis Weitenberg (72), Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1960 » Bill Johnson, American skier († 2016)
• 1960 » Laurie Graham, Canadian skier
• 1961 » Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian-American ice hockey player († 1999)
• 1961 » Mike Thackwell, New Zealand racing driver
• 1962 » Gary Stevens, English international footballer, defender and manager
• 1962 » MC Hammer, American rapper and actor
• 1962 » Mark Begich, American politician
• 1963 » Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Greek footballer
• 1963 » Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Mongolian journalist and politician, 4th President of Mongolia
• 1963 » Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor

• 1959 » Daniil Andreyev, Russian mystic and poet (b. 1906)
• 1959 » John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (b. 1894)
• 1959 » Riccardo Zanella, Italian politician (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Joseph Haas, German composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Aleksandr Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Nella Larsen, American nurse and author (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1966 » Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (b. 1902)

• 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.
• May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
• June 11 » Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
• August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• August 22 » The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
• August 30 » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
• October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

The temperature on March 30, 1962 was between 4.5 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 9.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.