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• Johannes Gijsbertus van der Stap († 2012)
• Maria Gesina Groen, Emmen († 1962)
• Johannes Gijsbertus van der Stap († 2012)
• Anne Victoria Terburgh, Baseldon Engeland
• Eduard Penning, Rotterdam
• franciscus marie (frank) van ninhuijs, helden-beringe
• Sigrid van RHEDEN, Den Haag († 2005)
• Petrus Johannes Maria Besseling, Hoorn († 2013)
• Paula C. Confer, Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo County) (Michigan) († 2009)
• Charles Victor Agerbeek, Geldermalsen, West-Betuwe, Gelderland, Nederland († 1983)

• Bartholomeus Hendrikus van der Horst (60), Leiden
• Bauke Gerrits Procee (64), Menaldumerdeel
• Ben Harberts (51), Amsterdam
• Bertha Muller (76), Zeist
• 00 Anna Margaretha Baars (88), Montfort, Limburg, NL
• Arie van de Nadort (73), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Geertrui Cornelia Hoofdman (80), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Dirkx (85), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Brice Hopston Watts (60)
• Bernardus Gerhardus Kiphardt (67), Hengelo,, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1959 » Khaosai Galaxy, Thai boxer and politician
• 1959 » Luis Pérez-Sala, Spanish race car driver
• 1960 » R. Kuhaneswaran, Sri Lankan politician
• 1960 » Rhonda Burchmore, Australian actress, singer, and dancer
• 1960 » Rimas Kurtinaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1960 » Rob Bowman, American director and producer
• 1961 » Giselle Fernández, Mexican-American television journalist.
• 1962 » Lisa Curry, Australian swimmer
• 1963 » Gavin Nebbeling, South African footballer
• 1964 » Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Danish lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Denmark

• 1954 » William March, American soldier and author (b. 1893)
• 1956 » Austin Osman Spare, English painter and magician (b. 1886)
• 1957 » Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Keith Andrews, American race car driver (b. 1920)
• 1963 » John Aglionby, English-born Bishop of Accra and soldier (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Vladko Maček, Croatian lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Pio Pion, Italian businessman (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
• 1967 » Italo Mus, Italian painter (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Joe Malone, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890)

• 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.
• August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
• October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
• October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
• November 21 » The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Sino-Indian War.
• 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.
• December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.

The temperature on May 15, 1962 was between 3.3 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.