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• Mintje (Mirjan) Jaasma, Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1994)
• Bradley Dean Haugland († 2023)
• Kees Hol, Everdingen, Utrecht, Nederland († 2020)
• Bonne Meter, Terwispel († 2009)
• Mirjan Thomasdr. Jaasma († 1994)
• Wessel Laagland Winder († 2017)
• Annet Post, Enschede
• Ruurd Adriaan de Bruin, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1964)
• Paulo Fernando Coelho Fleury, Porto Feliz, São Paulo, Brasil († 2009)
• David Alan Heitritter, Sheldon, O´Brien County, Iowa († 2023)

• Aleida Johanna Margaretha Zijlstra (72), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Scott (78), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Casper Bijdevier (76), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bráulio Ferreira da Silva (85), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• Cornelia Elisabeth Nap (93), Doorn, Utr, Nederland
• Christian Magnus Jentoft (82), Michigan, United States
• Antonetto Servais (39)
• Clément Joseph Petit (55), Miannay, Frankrijk
• Anton H. WILLENBORG (80)
• Christiaan Joseph Slechten (50), Bilzen

• 1960 » Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament
• 1960 » S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan commander and politician († 1998)
• 1961 » Charles Wright, American wrestler
• 1961 » Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1962 » Helga Radtke, German long jumper
• 1962 » Jimmy Hood, Scottish engineer and politician († 2017)
• 1963 » David Wilkinson, English theologian and academic
• 1963 » Rachel Griffith, Anglo-American economist
• 1964 » Boyd Tinsley, American singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1964 » John Salley, American basketball player and actor

• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)
• 1955 » James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)
• 1955 » Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1956 » H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1961 » George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)
• 1973 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (b. 1891)

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.
• February 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
• August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
• September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
• October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
• November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
• November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

The temperature on May 16, 1962 was between 2.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.