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• Luke Andrew Devine, Newcastle, NSW, Australia († 2001)
• Maartje Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Ingrid de Wit, Landsmeer († 1992)
• Baby Grinolds, Fort Worth, Texas
• Paul Robert Squire, Ayr, Queensland, Australia († 2010)
• Johannes Willem Pebesma, Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1970)
• Henny van Sonsbeek, Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland († 1991)
• Gary Wendell Davis, Snake Spring Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1994)
• Hendrik Albert (Henk) Stevens, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2007)
• Carol Grace Pulfrey, Marshall County, South Dakota († 1979)

• Andreas Rooijackers (58), Helmond,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Anna Catharina van HOVE (67), Vosselaar,, Antwerpen, België
• Andries Ymes Schaafsma (60), Zwaagwesteinde
• Albertus Gerrits van der Zee (75), Hijlaard, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van Hove (ex Swaenen) (67), Vosselaar, België
• Albertus Wilhelmus Florentin te Pas (57), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Boender (57), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Maria Stultjens (70), Weert, ziekenhuis
• Auke Voorzee (89), Groningen
• Anna Louisa Maria Werkhoven (87), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1960 » Doug Hutchison, American actor
• 1961 » Steve Pate, American golfer
• 1961 » Tarsem Singh, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Black, English singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1962 » Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Genie Francis, Canadian-American actress
• 1963 » Claude Legault, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1963 » Jamie Spence, English golfer
• 1963 » Mary Nightingale, English journalist
• 1963 » Simon Armitage, English poet, playwright and novelist

• 1948 » Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1951 » Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (b. 1880)
• 1954 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (b. 1900)
• 1955 » Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1959 » Philip Kassel, American gymnast (b. 1876)
• 1966 » Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)

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 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
• February 10 » Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
• March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11​⁄₂ day constitutional crisis.
• April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.

The temperature on May 26, 1962 was between 7.1 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.