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• Judith(Judith) van der Kuip
• Egbert Antoine Wolff de, Zaandam, NH, Nederland († 1960)
• Teunis Doppenberg, Putten († 2016)
• Else Josephina Simons, 's-Gravenhage († 2005)
• Ann Elisabeth Denbok, Oakville Ontario (canada) († 2014)
• Levenloos Jansen, Den Helder († 1959)
• Hendrik Rohaan, amsterdam
• Sherill D. Fisher, J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hosp., Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina († 1959)
• Joannes Leopoldus Van Rossen, Denderhoutem († 1960)
• NN Bierling, Groningen († 1959)

• Antonius Henricus Beekers (38), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• 00 Alida Maria Kraan (61), Montfoort, Utrecht, NL
• Alice A. Brannan (58), Toledo, Lucas Co., OH
• Alice Notting (87), Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Fijtze Kiewiet (56), Emmen
• Bernard Cornelis van Ovost (51), Leiden,Leiden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Alida Maria Kraan (64), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alida Maria Kraan (61)
• Arthur James Cook (49), Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. England
• Cecilia Josepha Antonia Smits (53), Tilburg

• 1958 » Anatoly Pisarenko, Ukrainian weightlifter and trainer
• 1958 » Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
• 1959 » Chandra Cheeseborough, American sprinter and coach
• 1959 » Chris Van Hollen, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 » Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter and producer
• 1960 » Benoît Pelletier, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1960 » Brian Cowen, Irish lawyer and politician, 12th Taoiseach of Ireland
• 1960 » Gurinder Chadha, Kenyan-English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » John Mann, English lawyer and politician
• 1961 » Janet Jones, American actress

• 1951 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (b. 1867)
• 1959 » Şükrü Kaya, Turkish jurist and politician, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1967 » Charles E. Burchfield, American painter (b. 1893)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. Robert
8. Gerrit
9. Pieter
10. Petrus
11. Ronald
12. Paul
13. Dirk
14. David
15. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Yvonne
9. Adriana
10. Hendrika
11. Ingrid
12. Margaretha
13. Petronella
14. Linda
15. Karin
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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• 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 11.3 million citizens.
• February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
• April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
• June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
• June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
• August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.

The temperature on January 10, 1959 was between -3.3 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.