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• Adrianus F.H. Peeters, Gilze en Rijen († 1997)
• Nn van Hulst, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Myriam Petronella Maria Graumans, Papendrecht († 2008)
• Lammigje Nijenhuis, Steenwijkerwold († 2020)
• Jos MOONEN, Hoensbroek/Heerlen (NL/LI) († 2019)
• Antonius Hermanus Maria Jetten, Heumen,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1990)
• Margot Marion Agatha de Vries († 1964)
• Arrindell († 1962)

• Arrindell (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Smits (68), Kloosterhaar, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland
• Aaltje Kaptein (79), IJsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alfred Farnum Calton (65), Ogden, Weber, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan CORVER (82), Bentveld, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnould Hyacinthe Marie Schaetzen (85), Tongres
• Albertina pater (85), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Aaltje Ymes Drost (74), Augustinusga
• Annetje van Driesten (74), Oldebroek
• Aaltien Goedkoop (70), Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland

• 1960 » Robert Abraham, American football player
• 1961 » Anders Jarryd, Swedish tennis player
• 1961 » Khalid Mahmood, Pakistani-English engineer and politician
• 1961 » Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1961 » Tahira Asif, Pakistani politician († 2014)
• 1961 » Tim Watson, Australian footballer, coach, and journalist
• 1962 » Rhonda Vincent, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player
• 1962 » Tom Kenny, American voice actor and screenwriter
• 1963 » Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and model
• 1963 » Neal Foulds, English snooker player and sportscaster

• 1949 » Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (b. 1877)
• 1951 » Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer and painter (b. 1874)
• 1954 » Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and educator (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Joy Davidman, American-English poet and author (b. 1915)
• 1965 » Photis Kontoglou, Greek painter and illustrator (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Tom Simpson, English cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1970 » Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Willy Fritsch, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

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.
• February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
• 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.
• May 19 » A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
• July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
• 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.
• December 25 » The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

The temperature on July 13, 1962 was between 12.6 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.