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• A.C.B.M(Anette) Munsterhuis († 1960)
• Eddy van Verseveld, Tiel († 2011)
• Peter Robert Roosenburg, Den Haag, Nederland († 1966)
• Adriana Wilhelmina (Adri) van der Kooi, Gorinchem († 2014)
• André Ruiter, Hoogezand († 2011)
• Elisabeth Maria Johanna Lebens, Nieuwstadt, Limburg, Nederland († 2006)
• Marrigje Albertha Godeke († 2011)
• Eddie van VERSEVELD, Tiel († 2011)
• Mary Christiane Ghislaine GENDEBIEN, Faulx-les-Tombes Namur Belgium († 1967)
• Maria Johanna Agnes VAN LEEUWEN, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)

• Albert Wolters (70), Zwolle
• Antje Maria van Kampen (59)
• Aleida Natrop (61), Bemmel
• * Adrianus (Janus) van Stijn (72), Schiedam
• Albertus Grisel (83), Baarn
• Cornelia Meeuse (80), Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Adrianus Petrus van Iersel (77), Tilburg Nederland
• Anton Adriaan Johan Augustijn (81), Den Haag, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Arnold Charles August Kraaijmes (52), Harrisburg Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Adranus van Staalduinen (74), Leidschendam

• 1958 » Angela Bassett, American actress
• 1958 » José Luis Clerc, Argentinian tennis player and coach
• 1958 » Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
• 1958 » Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach
• 1959 » Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist and manager
• 1960 » Franz Welser-Möst, Austrian-American conductor and director
• 1960 » Rosita Baltazar, Belizean choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor († 2015)
• 1960 » Timothy Hutton, American actor, producer and director
• 1961 » Angela Smith, English academic and politician
• 1961 » Christian Okoye, American football player

• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)

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.
• February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
• June 30 » Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
• 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 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• July 20 » Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
• August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.

The temperature on August 16, 1960 was between 9.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.