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• James W. Eberhart, South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, VS († 1959)
• Anna van Kaam, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• James Lister Rains, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada († 1959)
• Kokje Lalleman
• Daniël Soetermans, Ougrée († 2012)
• Hendrikus Oortwijn, Hijken († 1962)
• Dornésio Selhorst, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1998)
• Constance Post, Haarlem
• Keith van Diest, Washington († 1975)
• Magda Uyttersprot († 2018)

• Anna Vijgenboom (59), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Manten (76), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus van de Vuurst (71), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Cornelia van Drongelen (76), Utrecht, Nederland
• Arij Frankfort (62), Heemskerk
• Albertus Rietveld (55)
• Cornelis Jan de Boer (36)
• Arnoldus Jan Beekhuizen (64)
• Edmond Kiksen (56), Surabaya, Nederlands-Indië
• Anna Horstman (56), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1957 » Bodo Rudwaleit, German footballer and manager
• 1957 » Kate Wilkinson, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 11th New Zealand Minister of Conservation
• 1958 » Ana Kokkinos, Australian director and screenwriter
• 1958 » Lindsey Hilsum, English journalist and author
• 1959 » John C. McGinley, American actor and producer
• 1959 » Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1959 » Martin Atkins, English drummer and producer
• 1959 » Mike Gminski, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1960 » Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
• 1960 » Tim Mayotte, American tennis player and coach

• 1949 » Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Colette, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
• 1958 » Peter Collins, English race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1959 » Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (b. 1925)
• 1966 » Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 1968 » Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (b. 1896)
• 1969 » Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889)
• 1972 » Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer (b. 1913)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Hendrik
6. Willem
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 29 » The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
• April 8 » A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
• May 30 » The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
• June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
• July 27 » The Continental League is announced as baseball's "3rd major league" in the United States.
• November 21 » American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.

The temperature on August 3, 1959 was between 10.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.