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• Anna Weyns, Turnhout († 1963)
• Anna Weyns, Turnhout († 1963)
• Eline van Twillert († 1994)
• Lucas Tiemen van Slooten, Urk († 1995)
• Gerlinde Hijstek, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2023)
• Gerdina Siegersma, Wolvegea († 1980)
• Fokje van der Meer († 1999)
• Maria Annette Berendina Bongers, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• René Geus, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Timothy Joel Marcus, Holland, MI

• Arnoldus Cornelis van Gils (64), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus,Cornelis van Gils (64)
• Arie Streef (32), Putten (GL)
• Agnes Maria Rohling (49), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alle Remmelts de Haan (78)
• Arnoldus Cornelis van Gils (64), Tilburg
• Arien Galis (83)
• Arend Schonewille (1), Elim, Hoogeveen
• Anna Visser (76), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annie Werkman (90)

• 1958 » Nigel Dodds, Northern Irish lawyer and politician
• 1960 » Dom Duff, Breton singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer
• 1960 » Mark Langston, American baseball player
• 1961 » Amanda Sonia Berry, English businesswoman
• 1962 » James Marsters, American actor
• 1963 » José Cecena, Mexican baseball player
• 1963 » Kal Daniels, American baseball player
• 1963 » Uwe Bialon, German footballer and manager
• 1964 » Azarias Ruberwa, Congolese lawyer and politician, Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 1965 » KRS-One, American rapper and producer

• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1979 » Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)
• 1980 » Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 1982 » Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)

• 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 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• January 15 » Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
• February 7 » The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
• March 2 » Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
• July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
• August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.

The temperature on August 20, 1962 was between 10.0 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.