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• Ernie Debruyne, Roeselare († 2019)
• gertrudis jacoba mathea maria (gerda) jacobs, helden-beringe
• Maud Hereman, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland

• Antje (Jandr Brands (79), Groningen, 9700, Nederland
• Bertha DECLERCK (72), Woumen
• Andreas Nicolaas Karel Hopman (81), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alvah Alonzo Todd (71), Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Snaterse (56), Driebergen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Berendina Willemina Teeuw (46), Arnhem
• Andries de Visser (78), Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Douwsma (75), Assen
• anna catharina basten (52), roermond
• Anna Augustine (40), Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy

• 1960 » Lloyd Honeyghan, Jamaican-English boxer
• 1960 » Mart Laar, Estonian historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Estonia
• 1960 » Randall L. Stephenson, American businessman
• 1961 » Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer († 1996)
• 1961 » Ann McKechin, Scottish lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1961 » Dewey Nicks, American photographer and director
• 1962 » Danièle Sauvageau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 » Magnús Ver Magnússon, Icelandic weightlifter and strongman
• 1963 » Rosalind Gill, English sociologist and academic
• 1964 » Paul Baxter, English footballer

• 1945 » Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (b. 1867)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1946 » Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer and jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1946 » Lionel Atwill, English-American actor (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Charles Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (b. 1895)
• 1951 » Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (b. 1870)
• 1956 » Walt Faulkner, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1968 » Stephen H. Sholes, American record producer (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Will Geer, American actor (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.
• January 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
• January 15 » Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
• March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
• August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
• August 16 » Pete Best is discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by Ringo Starr.
• September 23 » The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.

The temperature on April 22, 1962 was between 6.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.