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• Greet POL († 1997)
• Frank Woodrow Linzay, Cheneyville, Louisiana († 2022)
• N.N. Oosting, Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1962)
• Truus Bosman, De Loo († 2016)
• Aart van der Horst, Kampen
• MAARTJE MARIA MAAT, Overschie, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bruce Martin van Grinsven, Appleton, Outagamie county, Wisconsin (USA) († 2001)
• William Hubert ‘Billy’ Dawson († 2023)
• Hendrika Adriana Brigitta van Asselt, Amsterdam († 2011)
• Janita van de Groep, Eemdijk († 1962)

• Andries Koppert (69), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annestatia Helena Maria Brouwers (75), Gilze en Rijen
• Adrianus Josephus Maria Sleeckx (64), Antwerpen
• Albrechta Johanna van Dijk (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• André Frans Louisa De Pré (28), Duffel (AZ St Norbertus)
• Anna Elizabeth Schaeffer (53), Upper Darby, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Bliek (75), 's-Heer-Arendskerke, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Bernardus Christianus Dezentj√© (78), Den Haag,Den Haag,Zuid Holland,Nederland
• Aaltje Hoekstra (85)
• Adeline Claeys (84), Ledegem,8880,West-Vlaanderen,België

• 1960 » Brad Jones, Australian race car driver
• 1960 » Linford Christie, Jamaican-English sprinter
• 1961 » Buddy Jewell, American singer-songwriter
• 1961 » Christopher Meloni, American actor
• 1961 » Keren Woodward, English singer-songwriter
• 1962 » Billy Dean, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Clark Gregg, American actor
• 1962 » Pierre Carles, French director and producer
• 1963 » Karl Beattie, English director and producer
• 1963 » Mike Gascoyne, English engineer

• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese martial artist and educator (b. 1887)
• 1974 » Georges Pompidou, French banker and politician, 19th President of France (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Walter Wolf, German academic and politician (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Buddy Rich, American drummer, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1917)

• 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 5 » French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
• 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.
• August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
• 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 16 » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
• October 9 » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.

The temperature on April 2, 1962 was between 3.1 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.