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• Jan Geertsema, Middenmeer († 2019)
• Jeffrey Albert Reijnhout, Utrecht, Nederland († 1963)
• Dirk van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Anneke Bolt, Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland († 2017)
• Martine Cheyns, Oudenaarde († 1986)
• Dirk van Duijn, Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2016)
• Yvonne Maria Margaretha van Bennekom, Warmond, Teylingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2013)
• Ann- Jeannette Boonstra, Rekken
• Arie van den Heuvel, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1987)
• Annie Koenders, Palmerston († 1962)

• Carola Theodora Maria Assumta de Bruin (4), Amersfoort
• Aaldrik Bult (68)
• Beerentje Tiggelaar (82), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Angela Catharina Rochtus (30), Bornem
• Antonius Leijting (64)
• Albert KOOPS (75), Verrieres le Buisson (Parijs), Frankrijk
• Pieter Jan Vreugdenhil (38), 's-Gravenzande
• Arthur Vandenborne (61), Sint-Truiden, België
• Alida Piekaar (79), Rotterdam
• Akke Bogaard (69), Sneek (NL)

• 1960 » Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1961 » Can Dündar, Turkish journalist and author
• 1961 » Margus Metstak, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1961 » Robbie Kerr, Australian cricketer
• 1961 » Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 » Anthony Wong, Hong Kong singer
• 1962 » Arnold Vosloo, South African-American actor
• 1962 » Wally Joyner, American baseball player and coach
• 1963 » The Sandman, American wrestler
• 1964 » Danny Burstein, American actor and singer

• 1953 » Margaret Bondfield, English politician, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (b. 1873)
• 1955 » Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter (b. 1864)
• 1958 » Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
• 1958 » Pál Maléter, Hungarian general and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (b. 1917)
• 1959 » George Reeves, American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1961 » Marcel Junod, Swiss physician and anesthesiologist (b. 1904)
• 1967 » Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1969 » Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891)
• 1970 » Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1970 » Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)

• 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 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
• 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.
• September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
• 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 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
• November 21 » The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Sino-Indian War.

The temperature on June 16, 1962 was between 12.9 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.