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• Cornelis de Willigen († 1962)
• Darwin Lee van Hauen, Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa († 2022)
• Sietze Hendriks Kunst, Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 2013)
• Antonius Cosmas Wilhelmus Versteeg, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ilona Gertsch
• Garret Allen Hoogwerf, Irena, Ontario, Canada
• James Carl Grove, Westminster, Carroll, Maryland, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Sietze Kunst († 2013)
• Gerrit Albert Meun, Urk, Gemeente Urk, Flevoland, Nederland
• Freddy van Duin, Alphen ad Rijn († 1995)

• Berley Mullins (59), Lee, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Bell States (83)
• Catharina Maatje Polak (64), Breda, Nederland
• Aaltje Wagenaar (49), Noord Scharwoude
• Anje Nieland (61), Tange-Alteveer
• catharina cornelisdr van VLIET (84), rotterdam
• Antonio Pedro Momm (0)
• Adriana de Groot (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alta Iola Saunders (81)
• Elis van der Horst (90), Zevenhoven

• 1960 » Jacques Rougeau, Canadian wrestler
• 1961 » Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
• 1962 » Ally Sheedy, American actress and author
• 1962 » Davey Hamilton, American race car driver
• 1962 » Glenn Michibata, Canadian-American tennis player and coach
• 1962 » Hannah Storm, American journalist and author
• 1963 » Audrey Niffenegger, American author and academic
• 1963 » Bettina Bunge, Swiss-German tennis player
• 1963 » Sarah Connolly, English soprano and actress
• 1964 » Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian organist, composer, and educator

• 1948 » Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1951 » Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1957 » Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)
• 1965 » David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1965 » Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
• 1969 » Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 » Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1979 » Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1945)

• 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.
• 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 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
• October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
• October 28 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from 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.

The temperature on June 13, 1962 was between 9.6 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.