About the day » Wednesday May 2, 1962Calender converter

• Essie Elema († 1973)
• Paula de Boer, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2016)
• Erno Cornelis van den Bos, Den Haag († 1962)
• Remigius Dionysius Ebbing, Rijssen († 1981)
• Kirk Lee Blevins, Alabama, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Geertrui Stolk, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Essine Gerardina Elema, Groningen († 1973)
• Jack Strik († 2012)
• Essie Elema († 1973)
• Henry Kenneth Tempelman († 2006)

• Albertha Euverman (66), Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland
• Alida Selling (87)
• Antonie Everhard Rook (19), Malaga (Spanje)
• anthonie van NIEUWENHUIJZEN (87), greup mijnsheerenland
• Arendje Vries, de (71), Rotterdam Zhl. NL
• Ariën Daniëls (51), Velp, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bonnie Jean McCullough (37), Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
• Angelina Sand (76)
• Arie Bleecke (84), Rotterdam
• Céline Julie Marie CARESMEL (79), Fouquières-lès-Béthune,62350,Pas-de-Calais,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE

• 1959 » Alan Best, Canadian animator, director, and producer
• 1959 » Tony Wakeford, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 » Stephen Daldry, English director and producer
• 1961 » Phil Vickery, English chef and author
• 1961 » Sophie Thibault, Canadian journalist
• 1961 » Steve James, English snooker player
• 1962 » Elizabeth Berridge, American actress
• 1962 » Jimmy White, English snooker player
• 1962 » Michael Grandage, English director and producer
• 1965 » Félix José, Dominican-American baseball player

• 1945 » Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 1953 » Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)
• 1957 » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)
• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 » J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
• 1974 » James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)
• 1977 » Nicholas Magallanes, American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (b. 1922)

• 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 22 » The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
• October 13 » The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane, with winds above 150mph. 46 people die.
• 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.
• October 28 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
• November 20 » Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

The temperature on May 2, 1962 was between 5.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.