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• N.N. van Gorp, Alphen en Riel († 1959)
• Klaske Bijlsma, Sint Annaparochie
• Eduard Bos, Woudenberg († 1979)
• Mario Samplonius, Den Helder († 2017)
• Henriëtte Gertrud Wesselink, Bemmel († 2010)
• Cornelis Anthonius Nicolaas Slaman, Onderdijk (bij Wervershoof, gem. Medemblik, NH) († 2013)
• Constance Lee Lobé, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (USA) († 1959)
• Eduard Bos, Woudenberg, Utrecht, Nederland († 1979)
• Carola Maria Antonia Keizer, Utrecht († 2003)
• Mario Samplonius, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2017)

• Albert Barlow (70), Canowindra, NSW, AU
• Augusta Ulens (69), Aalst-bij-Sint-Truiden, België
• Anna Maria Driessen (76), Kensal, Stutsman County, North Dakota, United States
• Egbertus Antonius Verkleij (54), Rotterdam
• Antina Everdina de Vries (74), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria van der Heijden (73), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Abraham Corper (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Martinus Gerardus Wilhelm Hoogveld (61), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Jan Hollaar (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Porter Bradford (93), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake,, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1957 » Michael Clayton, Australian golfer
• 1958 » Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football player
• 1958 » Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist († 2019)
• 1958 » Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1958 » Steve Israel, American lawyer and politician
• 1958 » Ted McGinley, American actor
• 1959 » Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
• 1959 » Phil Brown, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1959 » Randy Ferbey, Canadian curler
• 1961 » Harry Enfield, English actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1951 » Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1957 » Piero Carini, Italian race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1960 » Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1964 » Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1964 » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1899)

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.
• February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
• June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
• July 1 » Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
• July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
• August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
• September 16 » The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

The temperature on May 30, 1959 was between 5.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.