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• Harmen POSTMA, Leeuwarden
• Rob Tomeij († 2020)
• René Enthoven († 2022)
• Hilde Josephina Carolus Vermeiren, Beerse (B) († 1995)
• Aloysius Johannes Maria van Dijk, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1979)
• Jeffrey Lee Dickson, Pensacola Es, Florida († 1981)
• Stephen James SCULLY, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia († 1962)
• * Johanna Cornelia Hendrika Maria Neefs († 2018)
• Gerardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus (Geert) Janssen, Ottersum, Gennep, Limburg, Netherlands († 2007)
• Aloysius Johannes Maria van DIJK, Tilburg († 1979)

• Apolonia Hagoort (89), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Nijkoops- (62), Oosterhesselen, Nederland
• Bathildis Van Schaumburg Lippe (88), Arolsen, Hessen, Germany
• Alice Elenora McDaniel (70), Yakima County, Washington
• Bathildis van Schaumburg-Lippe (88)
• Bathildis Marie Leopoldine Anna Auguste zu Schaumburg-Lippe (88)
• Auke Hanses Frankena (62), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Bathildis Marie Leopoldine Anna Auguste van Schaumburg-Lippe (88), Bad Arolsen, Duitsland
• Anna Elisabeth Maria de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel (84), Bilthoven
• Anna Maria Schakenraad, Schijndel, 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nl

• 1959 » Gail Shea, Canadian politician
• 1960 » John Pizzarelli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 » Richard Loe, New Zealand rugby player
• 1960 » Warren Haynes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Peter Jackson, English footballer and manager
• 1961 » Rory Bremner, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1962 » Iris Häussler, German sculptor and academic
• 1962 » Marco Schällibaum, Swiss footballer, coach, and manager
• 1963 » Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian economist and politician, 54th President of Ecuador
• 1965 » Black Francis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1950 » Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Idris Davies, Welsh poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)

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.
• June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
• August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
• August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
• 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.
• September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
• December 2 » Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.

The temperature on April 6, 1962 was between 2.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.