About the day » Sunday June 3, 1962Calender converter

• Joanne Veronica Silvis, Toronto, Canada
• Elisabeth Petronella Anna Hoogeveen, Noordwijk († 2021)
• Johan Albert Grooten, Zutphen († 2023)
• Berend IJzerman, Kampen († 1969)
• Eddy Rovers, Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Rob Portegijs, Wieringen († 2004)
• NN van Veen, Sneek
• Patricia PARIDANT de CAUWERE, Etterbeek, 1040, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique († 2020)

• Arie Van Zon (60), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Pol (74), Kerkrade,Limburg,Niederlande
• Anne Laura Smith (70), Los Angeles, California
• Catharina Geertruida Roosen (70), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiaan van der Hoek (45), Rotterdam
• Arend Stemerding (81), Rheden
• Cornelia Sweens (89), Terheijden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Toma (81), Maastricht (Maastricht) (Limburg)
• Anne Pol (74), Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia van Beerendonk (89)

• 1960 » Carl Rackemann, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1960 » Catherine Davani, first female Papua New Guinean judge († 2016)
• 1960 » Tracy Grimshaw, Australian television host
• 1961 » Ed Wynne, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1961 » Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons
• 1961 » Peter Vidmar, American gymnast
• 1962 » Dagmar Neubauer, German sprinter
• 1962 » Susannah Constantine, English fashion designer, journalist, and author
• 1963 » Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, 8th Minister-President of the Walloon Region
• 1963 » Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor

• 1963 » Edmond Decottignies, French weightlifter (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Nâzım Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
• 1964 » Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1964 » Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (b. 1887)
• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1906)

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. Monique
12. Karin
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.
• April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• August 7 » Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
• September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
• September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
• November 17 » President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
• November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

The temperature on June 3, 1962 was between 3.6 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.