About the day » Friday May 11, 1962Calender converter

• Marcel van Gasteren, Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1967)
• Pieter Bolt († 2002)
• Marcel van Gasteren, Culemborg († 1967)
• Robert J. Zane, Camden, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Marianne Runhaar, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland († 2023)
• Albertus Anholts, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Patrick Daelemans, Bornem († 2009)
• Edward Bastiaan Boef, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Randall Henry SMIT, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Jesus Hernandez Hernandez, California († 1991)

• Berendina Smid (86), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Reweghs (78), Diepenbeek
• Bernardus Johannes Dijkman (59), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie Lambertus Gerretsen (76), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Maria Antonetta van Nistelrooij (55), Oss
• Aafke Bosma (66), Brunssum
• barendina LANGERMANS (89), numansdorp
• Anna Maria Grönniger (82), Fehndorf, Haren (Ems)
• Berendina Smid (86), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria - Maria Grönniger (82), Fehndorf, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany

• 1954 » John Gregory, English footballer and manager
• 1955 » John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven
• 1957 » Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician
• 1962 » Steve Bono, American football player
• 1964 » Bobby Witt, American baseball player
• 1964 » Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1967 » Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1969 » Mitch Healey, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 » Simon Vroemen, Dutch runner
• 1970 » Harold Ford, Jr., American lawyer and politician

• 1938 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
• 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)
• 1979 » Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1981 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1983 » Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)

• 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 2 » In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
• March 19 » The Algerian War of Independence ends.
• June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
• June 11 » Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
• August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
• November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.

The temperature on May 11, 1962 was between 7.1 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.