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• Millecam
• Catherine VAN WAESBERGHE, Montgon, FRANKRIJK († 1960)
• Gerda Stil († 2000)
• Cecile van der Meer
• x Ermens († 2000)
• Brigitta Diana Christina (Brigitte) van Straaten, Den Haag, Nederland († 2022)
• Barry William Mouw, Osage, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Donald Richard de Saire, Soerabaja († 1984)
• Barbara BLAKER ***, Eglin Air Force Base, Okaloosa, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Nan Paul Krook, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2013)

• Bauke Bergsma (47), Leeuwarden
• Adriana Lijten (76), Woensdrecht (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Bauke Sybolts Bergsma (47), Leeuwarden
• Adriana Leijten (76), Woensdrecht, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Berends Reitsma (93), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Lijten (76), Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aigline Antoinette Elisabeth Renaldine de Girard de Mielet van Coehoorn (65), Velp,Gemeente Rheden,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Adrienne Trice Phillips (64), Tampa, Florida
• Angela Clare Rosalind Chichester (50)
• Anna Maria Raaijmakers (88), Etten-Leur

• 1957 » Khandi Alexander, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1958 » Drew Pinsky, American radio and television host
• 1958 » Jacqueline Hewitt, American astrophysicist and astronomer
• 1958 » Marzio Innocenti, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1959 » Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper
• 1959 » Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
• 1960 » Damon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Kim Thayil, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1960 » Shailesh Vara, Ugandan-English lawyer and politician
• 1961 » Nick Blinko, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1974 » Charles Arnison, English airman (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1977 » E. F. Schumacher, German-English economist and statistician (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)

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 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
• March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
• April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
• June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
• July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
• December 1 » Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.

The temperature on September 4, 1959 was between 10.7 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.