About the day » Saturday April 28, 1962Calender converter

• Donald Paul Westendorf, Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa († 2021)
• Gerben Jorna, Zeist († 1962)
• Michael Leonardus Sebe Hendriks, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1964)
• Robertus Johannes Maria van Haaster, Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1996)
• Adrianus Johannes Maria Michielsen, Gilze en Rijen
• ? Cantin († 1962)
• Olga de Beurs

• Berendina Alberts Ackerman (77)
• Bastiaan Willem van Duinen (56), Rotterdam
• Albertus Dorenbos (92), Slochteren
• Arthur Broekstra (60), Palos Heights,, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• ? Cantin (0)
• Cornelius Josephus Horsten (69), Pijnacker
• Charles WAGNER (42), Los Angeles,,CA
• Cornelis Joseph Maria WILLEMSE (73), Eygelshoven, Limburg, Nederland
• Bernard J. Heisserer (91), Jackson County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Bessie E Hennigan (59), Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1960 » Elena Kagan, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1960 » Ian Rankin, Scottish author
• 1960 » Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman and weightlifter († 1993)
• 1960 » Phil King, English bass player
• 1960 » Tom Browning, American baseball player
• 1960 » Walter Zenga, Italian footballer and manager
• 1963 » Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1963 » Marc Lacroix, Belgian biochemist and academic
• 1963 » Sandrine Dumas, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1964 » Stephen Ames, Trinidadian golfer

• 1954 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1956 » Fred Marriott, American race car driver (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1962 » Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Wilhelm Weber, German gymnast (b. 1880)
• 1970 » Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Richard Hughes, American author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Sepp Herberger, German footballer and coach (b. 1897)

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 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
• August 22 » The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
• September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
• November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
• December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

The temperature on April 28, 1962 was between 5.5 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.