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• Kathy Jo Schubert, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2008)
• Diederik Willaert, Dworp
• Dirkje Plug, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Nicolette Stefanie Maria te Marvelde, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Alberdina de Joode, Hillegom († 2019)
• Teunis Buitenhuis († 1961)
• Egbert Gerards van Benthem, Zwarte Water,Genemuiden († 1998)
• Dirkje Plug, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Daniel Richard Diebels († 2010)
• Edith Marianne van den Ouden, Sommelsdijk († 1980)

• Pieter Botter (88), Heerlen
• Albertus Gerardus Duijff (70), Den Haag
• Albertus Gerardus Duijff (70), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Mourik (14), Lopik
• Adrianus Cornelis Leendertsz van der Waal (74), Poortugaal, zh.nld
• Antoinetta Sophia Bruininck (88), Rosmalen
• Arend Bruintjes (90)
• Adriana Maria Broeders (93), Breda
• Abraham van Straalen (84)
• Augustus Frederick Gus Weber (74), Wapakoneta, Auglaize Co.Ohio

• 1955 » Nic Dakin, English educator and politician
• 1956 » K. Rajagopal, Malaysian football manager
• 1956 » Tom McClintock, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 » Derry Grehan, Canadian rock guitarist and songwriter
• 1958 » Béla Fleck, American banjo player and songwriter
• 1958 » Fiona Shaw, Irish actress and director
• 1959 » Ellen Kuras, American director and cinematographer
• 1959 » Sandy West, American singer-songwriter and drummer († 2006)
• 1961 » Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and film actor
• 1961 » Marc Riley, English guitarist (The Fall), radio DJ

• 1950 » Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (b. 1882)
• 1952 » Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Sæbjørn Buttedahl, Norwegian actor and sculptor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
• 1970 » Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
• 1972 » Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1887)

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.
• January 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
• February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
• February 22 » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
• July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
• October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.

The temperature on July 10, 1959 was between 17.7 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 21.9 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.