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• Henricus Wahlen, De Kwakel († 1959)
• Jannetje Mijnten, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2000)
• Elisabeth J. M. van der Raadt, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Levenloos van Heese, Haarlem († 1959)
• van GESTEL, xx († 1978)
• Henricus Wahlen (Wahle), De Kwakel († 1959)
• Inês Castro De Pinho E Costa, Porto (P) († 2004)
• Stephanie Maria Johanna Gesche Angela Prinses van Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Hamburg, Nedersaksen († 1989)
• Henricus Wahlen, De Kwakel († 1959)
• Johannes Daniël LENSINK, Amersfoort

• Anna Vialle (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Hendriks van der Velde (88), Groningen
• Adrianus van Kuijk (85), Tull en 't Waal
• Antonius Hendrikus van Dodewaard (68), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Os (68), Amerongen,Utrechtse Heuvelrug,Utrecht,Nederland
• Alva Duhon (65), Sulphur, Calcasieu, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Alberdina Lasthuis (69), Appingedam
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• Alice Turnbull (75), Iroquois County, Illinois, United States of America
• Anna Wilhelmina Rijksen (79), De Bilt

• 1956 » Wayne Daniel, Barbadian cricketer
• 1957 » Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer and manager
• 1957 » Mark Pawsey, English businessman and politician
• 1957 » Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountaineer and explorer († 1997)
• 1958 » Andris Šķēle, Latvian businessman and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Latvia
• 1958 » Lena Ek, Swedish lawyer and politician, 9th Swedish Minister for the Environment
• 1959 » Lisa Milroy, Canadian painter and educator
• 1959 » Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1961 » Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer († 2006)

• 1957 » Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English general and politician, 16th Governor General of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1957 » Arturo Toscanini, Italian cellist and conductor (b. 1867)
• 1959 » Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887)
• 1960 » Arthur Darby, English rugby player (b. 1876)
• 1961 » Max Schöne, German swimmer (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Frank Hurley, Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect, designed the Monument to the Unknown Hero (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1968 » Bob Jones Sr., American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek archaeologist and judge (b. 1881)

• 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 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
• April 25 » The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
• 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 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
• September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
• October 2 » Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”

The temperature on January 16, 1959 was between -7.1 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.