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• Geertje Koning, Leek, Groningen, Nederland
• Vicki Leigh Holliday, Verenigde Statn († 2003)
• Marco Frank Hoencamp, Utrecht († 1959)
• Fem van Heijst, Goirle († 2001)
• Brian Keith Heyman, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2019)
• Dirk POPPE, Zwijndrecht († 2023)
• Henricus Tale Zondag († 1988)
• N.N Kalkman, Gouda († 1959)
• petra wilhelmina (petra) geurts, helden-grashoek
• Hendrina Beltman, Nijverdal, Overijssel, Nederland († 2003)

• Bernardus Bensch (82), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Cove (60), Sprang-Capelle
• Antonius Nicolaas Rooijmans (86), Geldrop
• André** VILLEMIN (63), La Neuveville-devant-Lépanges, Vosges, Lorraine, France
• Cornelis Johannes van de Vosse (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Adriana Mulder (87), 's Hertogenbosch
• Anna Barbara Mulders (56), Heerlen
• Albert Pierre Louis Joseph DUSSART (79), Rieulay... Hauts de France
• Albertje Alida Veldman (90), Winschoten
• Annie Stephenson Todd (65), Boldon Colliery, County Durham

• 1957 » Caroline, Princess of Hanover
• 1958 » Sergey Litvinov, Russian hammer thrower († 2018)
• 1959 » Clive Bull, English radio host
• 1960 » Greg Ritchie, Australian cricketer
• 1960 » Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 » Neil Henry, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1961 » Yelena Sinchukova, Russian long jumper
• 1962 » Aivar Lillevere, Estonian footballer and coach
• 1962 » David Arnold, English composer
• 1962 » Elvira Lindo, Spanish journalist and author

• 1943 » Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (b. 1887)
• 1944 » Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867)
• 1956 » Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director and producer (b. 1893)
• 1963 » Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor (b. 1908)
• 1966 » T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician († 1895)
• 1971 » Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (b. 1871)
• 1973 » Alexander Onassis, American-Greek businessman (b. 1948)
• 1973 » Kid Ory, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1886)
• 1976 » Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and activist (b. 1898)

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. 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. 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.
• March 18 » The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
• April 8 » A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
• June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
• 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 30 » Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
• November 20 » The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.

The temperature on January 23, 1959 was between 1.8 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.