About the day » Thursday March 31, 1960Calender converter

• Dennis Gene de Kruyf
• Craig William Shaw, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Willem van Lingen
• Geoffrey 1960 Rowland, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada († 1982)
• Berent Jannes Timmerman († 1960)
• Agatha van Brink, Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Peter Philipp Strassheimer († 2004)
• Siebe Witteveen († 1966)
• Karl James Erickson, Clearwater, MN
• Robert John RICE, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 1998)

• "Alain" Joseph Auguste du Bessey de Contenson (82), Paris
• Carrie Grace Kessler (81), Long Beach, Los Angeles, CA
• Anna Put, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van Wamelen (80), Schiedam
• Anna Put (72), Apeldoorn
• (80), Den Haag
• Antonius Johannes Suijker (35), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Hendrikse (81), Middelburg
• Adelaide Jane Meade
• Anneko WIERINGA (81)

• 1955 » Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter
• 1955 » Svetozar Marović, President of Serbia and Montenegro
• 1957 » Alan Duncan, English businessman and politician, former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
• 1959 » Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator
• 1961 » Howard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer
• 1961 » Ron Brown, American sprinter and football player
• 1962 » Olli Rehn, Finnish footballer and politician
• 1963 » Paul Mercurio, Australian actor and dancer
• 1964 » Mark Hoban, English accountant and politician
• 1965 » Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1944 » Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Frank Findlay, New Zealand banker and politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1950 » Robert Natus, Estonian architect (b. 1890)
• 1952 » Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver and actor (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1970 » Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet Commander during the Winter War and the Eastern Front of World War II (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Paul Strand, American photographer and director (b. 1890)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Cornelia
5. Anna
6. Yvonne
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Monique
10. Ingrid
11. Anita
12. Jacqueline
13. Marianne
14. Karin
15. Petronella
16. Adriana

• 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 11.4 million citizens.
• January 14 » The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
• May 3 » The Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
• July 4 » Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
• July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
• July 21 » Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government
• August 13 » The Central African Republic declares independence from France.

The temperature on March 31, 1960 was between 4.0 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.