About the day » Thursday August 23, 1962Calender converter

• Shelda KALTSCHNEE, Jacksonville Illinois U.S.A († 2015)
• Frederik Willem Jozef Jansen, Lochem († 1981)
• Eimer Wieldraaier, Stadskanaal
• Francoise van Zuijlekom, Rotterdam
• Sikke Reindert van der Wal, Leeuwarden († 2020)
• Alice Van Der Wal († 1963)
• Dorina Papo, Baarn († 2000)
• Gerardus Keur, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Wilhelmina Johanna Catrina Mobach, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Renato Augusto Zimmermann de Negreiros, Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2005)

• Aaltje Mouw (56), Elspeet (Ermelo)
• Auke LUURSEMA (87), 't Zandt Groningen Netherlands
• Achiel Robert VIAENE (77), Tielt
• Antonia van Santen (70), Zeist
• Antoinette Louise Perk (78), Breda
• Charles Waldemar Krogh (85), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, V.S
• Amos Augustus Coke (87), Donegal, Springfield, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica
• Annie Elizabeth LECHTHALER (81), Baltimore Maryland U.S.A
• Antoinette Louise Perk (78), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Auke Luursema (87), 't Zandt

• 1961 » Alexandre Desplat, French composer and conductor
• 1961 » Dean DeLeo, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1961 » Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
• 1961 » Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese actress
• 1961 » Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iranian commander and politician, 54th Mayor of Tehran
• 1962 » Martin Cauchon, Canadian lawyer and politician, 46th Canadian Minister of Justice
• 1962 » Shaun Ryder, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1963 » Glória Pires, Brazilian actress
• 1963 » Park Chan-wook, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 » Richard Illingworth, English cricketer and umpire

• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Oscar Hammerstein II, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1964 » Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (b. 1883)
• 1966 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (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. 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.
• May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
• May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
• June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
• July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
• 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.
• August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

The temperature on August 23, 1962 was between 10.7 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.