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• Pier Poortinga, Buitenpost († 2023)
• Twan Hendriks, Venray, Limburg, Netherlands († 1998)
• Harrie Laros († 2004)
• Henk Grootemarsink († 2011)
• doodgeboren zoon van der Kolk, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Willem Pieter Visser, Zaandam, Nederland († 2009)
• Hendrik Vegter, Ten Boer († 2022)
• Donald Richard Goetz, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Elisabeth Margaretha Maria Kortenhorst, Sydney, Australia († 1983)
• N.N. Hage, Haarlem

• Cornelis Keijzer (39), Rotterdam
• Arie Molendijk (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aarnout Aarnoutse (79), Middelburg
• Anna "Annie" McDaniel Philips Spinks (87), Mississippi, United States
• 00 Anna Margaretha Baars (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
• Benoit Elie Spanjaard (80), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria WIJK,VAN (57), Schipluiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis VAN DER HAK (83), Voorburg
• Antje Wijtses Brandsma (84), Ten Post, Ten Boer, Groningen, Netherlands
• Christiaan Bloem (73), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland

• 1956 » Jan Lammers, Dutch race car driver
• 1957 » Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and manager
• 1958 » Lex Luger, American wrestler and football player
• 1959 » Erwin Olaf, Dutch photographer
• 1959 » Lydia Lunch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1959 » Rineke Dijkstra, Dutch photographer
• 1960 » Kyle Petty, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1960 » Olga Bondarenko, Russian runner
• 1960 » Tony Hadley, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1961 » Dez Cadena, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1948 » Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
• 1948 » Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
• 1952 » Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (b. 1880)
• 1956 » Jean Hersholt, Danish-American actor and director (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (b. 1884)
• 1961 » George S. Kaufman, American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1962 » Vita Sackville-West, English author and poet (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Benno Ohnesorg, German student and activist (b. 1940)
• 1968 » André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 1969 » Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
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. Jacoba

• 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 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
• February 16 » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
• June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
• July 21 » Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
• August 14 » Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
• 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 June 2, 1959 was between 6.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.