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• Jeffery Thomas Young, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Jozef van Hooydonck, Kappellen, Antwerpen, België († 1962)
• Barbara Gayle Ballard, Jefferson County, Kentucky († 1993)
• Gijsbert Alexander Cleyndert, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Harm Nomden, Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands († 2019)
• kind van Oorsouw, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1962)
• Liset van der Steen
• joseph maria anna (rob) pubben, helden-beringe
• Anna Josephina Diependaal, Goirle († 2009)

• Alida Maria , van der Putten (68), Wijk aan Zee, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Burgers (60), De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barbera Bakker (74), Groningen
• Adriana DE JONG (69), Dordrecht, Gemeente Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
• Bernardus Schuurman (60), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Geertrui Margaretha Ligthart (47), Breda
• Bernardina Maria Hertogs (60), Eindhoven
• Alida Maria van der Putten (68)
• Catharina Maria Jaspers (74), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Leon Verstrepen (53), Niel

• 1961 » Enya, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1961 » Jamil Azzaoui, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Justin King, English businessman
• 1962 » Andrew Farrar, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1962 » Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American comedian, actor, and talk show host
• 1962 » Jane Moore, English journalist and author
• 1962 » Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish journalist and author
• 1962 » Rosalind Picard, American computer scientist and engineer, co-founded Affectiva
• 1963 » Jon Koncak, American basketball player
• 1963 » Page McConnell, American keyboard player and songwriter

• 1943 » Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist (b. 1864)
• 1947 » George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
• 1951 » William Birdwood, Anglo-Indian field marshal (b. 1865)
• 1960 » Jules Supervielle, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1963 » John Wilce, American football player, coach, and physician (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and scholar (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Gündüz Kılıç, Turkish football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Abe Burrows, American director, composer, and author (b. 1910)

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.
• January 11 » An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
• February 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
• April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
• July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
• July 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
• October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

The temperature on May 17, 1962 was between 8.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.