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• Walter Kapteijns, 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland († 1982)
• Jeanette van Staveren († 2015)
• Gerald Wayne Postma, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2022)
• Liliane Julia Aldegonda (Lily) Cleeren, Alken, België († 2015)
• Kathleen Allyn Sullivan († 1961)
• Jentje Luchies, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2021)
• Charlotte Gerarda Maria van Steijn, Lisse († 2023)
• peter bernard (peter) wilms, helden († 2019)
• ludovicus marie gerardus absil, helden-dorp
• N.N. Noest, Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1959)

• Alfons De Meirleir‎ (61), Temse, België
• Antonia Catharina Maria Beute (84), Enschede
• "Jean" Henri de Baudreuil (81), Dissé-sous-le-Lude, Sarthe, France
• Antonia Dekker (57), Heiloo
• August Francois Vermeeren (81), Den Haag
• Antoinette Maria Ghislaine van Liedekerke-Pailhe (89), Brussel
• Ayala Brown Kennedy (76)
• Albertus Everardus van den BERG (67), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland)
• Adriana Engelina de Zoete (77), Rotterdam(ZH)
• Arnold Smeets (Smits,Schmitz,Schmetz,Smitz,Smiets,Schmeitz,Smets, Schmets,Schmeetz) (37), Heerlen, Nederland

• 1958 » Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager
• 1958 » Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Brian Harper, American baseball player
• 1959 » Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer
• 1959 » Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1959 » Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
• 1959 » John Whittingdale, English politician
• 1959 » Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician
• 1959 » Philip Maini, Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford
• 1959 » Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician

• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
• 1962 » Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• 1966 » George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1968 » Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914)

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.
• March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
• August 14 » Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
• September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
• October 21 » President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
• October 30 » Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
• November 2 » The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.

The temperature on October 16, 1959 was between 5.3 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.