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• NN Zwiggelaar, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• angelina johanna gerarda maria (ans) gommans, helden-koningslust
• Rodney Lynn Stille, Usa († 1979)
• Manfred van der Meij, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Kelley Grubbs, Dallas County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Laura K Klooster, Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Martin Rudolf de Ruijter, Leiden († 2002)
• Anthony (Tony) Ryan († 2018)
• Coenraad Vincent Maria Oldenhof († 2020)
• Hendrika Jeannette Vrielink († 2008)

• Alsey Courtney Thornton (69), Livingston Parish, Louisiana
• Anna Maria Van Limburg Stirum (70)
• Cornelia Prince (74), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annie Marie Becker (69), Lincoln county, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Beene Merkuur (78), Leeuwarden
• Anna Jahanna Maria van der Logt (71), Milsbeek
• Alfred Frank Francis (72), San Diego, San Diego, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Gerritdina Hendrika Grutterink (74), Krommenie, Nederland
• Aart Steetskamp (73), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Augustinus van Rompaey (50), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1960 » Franz Welser-Möst, Austrian-American conductor and director
• 1960 » Rosita Baltazar, Belizean choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor († 2015)
• 1960 » Timothy Hutton, American actor, producer and director
• 1961 » Angela Smith, English academic and politician
• 1961 » Christian Okoye, American football player
• 1962 » Steve Carell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Aloísio Pires Alves, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1963 » Christine Cavanaugh, American voice artist († 2014)
• 1964 » Jimmy Arias, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1964 » Nigel Redman, English rugby player

• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1973 » Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

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.
• February 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
• March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
• 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.
• May 31 » The West Indies Federation dissolves.
• July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
• September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

The temperature on August 16, 1962 was between 12.5 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.