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• Jentje Luchies, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2021)
• Johnny De Vlieger, Menin, Région Flamande, Belgique († 1959)
• Walter Kapteijns, 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland († 1982)
• Jan Booij, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2023)
• Waltherus Maria Martinus KAPTEIJNS, Den Bosch († 1982)
• Laurie M Young, Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa († 2020)
• Jeanette van Staveren († 2015)
• Clark Douglas Dirks, Cedar Falls, Iowa († 1998)
• Waltherus Maria Martinus Kapteijns, Sint-Michielsgestel († 1982)
• Johanna Antonia Maria Vernooij, Odijk († 2023)

• Anthonia Jacoba Poots (63), Rotterdam
• Arnoldus van Dijk (62), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonia Jacoba Poots (63), Bergen, North Holland, Netherlands
• Anneke~Ruurds de Bruin (64)
• Abel van Eerden (76), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alfons De Meirleir‎ (61), Temse, België
• Aleida Jantina Lubberink (73), Bussum
• Abraham Engelander (66), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Theresia Aberkrom (0), Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Alida de Vrieze (76), Born, Limburg, Nederland

• 1958 » Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager
• 1958 » Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Brian Harper, American baseball player
• 1959 » Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer
• 1959 » Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1959 » Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
• 1959 » John Whittingdale, English politician
• 1959 » Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician
• 1959 » Philip Maini, Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford
• 1959 » Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician

• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
• 1962 » Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• 1966 » George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1968 » Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914)

• 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 2 » Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
• January 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
• March 9 » The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
• April 25 » The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
• May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
• June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.

The temperature on October 16, 1959 was between 5.3 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.