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• Ronaldus Cornelis Lambertus Maria Wintjens, 's Hertogenbosch († 2013)
• Jamie Ann Hancock († 1962)
• Count Kraft of Erbach Fürstenau, Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen († 1980)
• Rens Jagt († 2009)
• Kathij Vis, Rotterdam († 1962)
• Taco Stolk, Gouda Z.H († 1999)
• Edwin Cornelis Helmons, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1963)
• van Dijk, Alphen aan den Rijn, ZH, Nederland († 2008)
• Michael Toepoel, Hoorn († 2004)
• Jacqueline Antonia Helena Stolzenbach, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2006)

• Adriaantje Sonneveld (64), Schiedam
• Antje Pietersma (62)
• Adam William Zins (86), Bismark, North Dakota, United States
• Carl Victor Helge Benvenuto Bergman (87), Stockholm, Stockholm, Uppland, Sweden
• Aleida Lammerdina de Vries (59), Wassenaar
• Catherina Hubertina (Cato) Knapen (83), Weert
• Aaltje Regnerus (86), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Alexandre 'Charles' de COUNE (88), Gomzé-Andoumont, 4140, Liège, Belgique
• Catherina Hubertina (To) Knapen (83), Nederweert
• Alberta Edzardina Veenhoff (81), Groningen

• 1959 » Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 » Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1961 » Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 » Rick Steiner, American wrestler
• 1963 » Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1963 » Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1964 » Juliette Binoche, French actress
• 1964 » Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1965 » Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor

• 1943 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1954 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

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.
• February 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
• July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
• July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
• October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
• November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
• December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

The temperature on March 9, 1962 was between 1.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.