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• Johanna Maria Eijkelenboom, Aalten
• Michael Rutjens, Susterseel (D), Duitsland († 1989)
• Zwaantje Schram, Huizen († 2008)
• Jan Visser, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 2006)
• Gerdina Maria de Snoo, Alblasserdam († 2018)
• Levenloos Verhoeff, Haarlem († 1959)
• Alberts Aan Kooiker, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1996)
• Roelof Wilhelminus Kuperus, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 1962)
• José Mauro Amaral Vellosa († 2013)
• Ludo Merken, Genk, België († 2001)

• Adrianus Johannes Andreas Geeve (73), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje de Wit (82), Utrecht
• Bernhard Lambert Kolhoff (82), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Dieuwke Schuitema (55), -
• Bertus Johannes van Ling (59), Amsterdam
• Bernard ter Mors (77), Enschede
• Catharina van den HURK, Best,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Hendriks Spannenburg (77), Wommels
• Arendtje van der Deen (86), Slochteren (gem. Midden-Groningen)
• Celina Hartog (78), rotterdam

• 1957 » Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English lawyer and businessman
• 1957 » Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician
• 1957 » Bob Suter, American ice hockey player and coach († 2014)
• 1957 » Joan Benoit, American runner
• 1957 » Yuri Shevchuk, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Mare Winningham, American actress and singer-songwriter
• 1959 » Mitch Webster, American baseball player
• 1960 » Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament
• 1960 » S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan commander and politician († 1998)
• 1961 » Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor and screenwriter

• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)
• 1955 » James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)
• 1955 » Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1956 » H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1961 » George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)

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. David
14. Dirk
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 30 » The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
• February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
• February 17 » Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
• June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
• September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
• November 15 » The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.

The temperature on May 16, 1959 was between 10.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.