About the day » Sunday November 8, 1959Calender converter

• Corry Martens, Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1972)
• Anna Hendrika Maria de Lange, Steenwijkerwold († 1959)
• Paul Carel Herman Wijsma, Gouda, Gemeente Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Antonetta Jacoba Maria Cornelia van den Broek, Eersel († 2001)
• Doodgeboren kind Hoogenboom, Warmond († 1959)
• Jeff Putzeis, Diepenbeek, België († 2010)
• Leendert Jan van Marion, Heenvliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Geert Jules Remi Huyghe, Roeselare West-Vlaanderen België († 1959)
• Geert Jules Remi Huyghe, Roeselare († 1959)
• Antonette Jacoba Maria Cornelia van den Broek, Eersel († 2001)

• Ada Bickerstaff (54)
• Aaltje van den Bree (68), Nijkerk
• Adriana Pieternella Drop (65), Vlaardingen
• Augusta Allenstein (85)
• Albert Bekaan* (77), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonia van Dodewaard (61), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonetta Josepha Gruijters (68), Horst, Limburg, Nederland
• Carolina Dias (90), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
• Adriana Pieternella Drop (65), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Steeman (77), Amsterdam

• 1957 » Alan Curbishley, English footballer and manager
• 1957 » Porl Thompson, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1957 » Tim Shaw, American swimmer
• 1958 » Don Byron, American clarinet player and composer
• 1958 » Ken Lamberton, American author and educator
• 1958 » Selçuk Yula, Turkish footballer and journalist († 2013)
• 1959 » Chi Chi LaRue, American drag queen performer and director
• 1959 » Miroslav Janů, Czech footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1960 » Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor and producer († 2017)
• 1960 » Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor, singer, and director

• 1949 » Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
• 1953 » Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1953 » John van Melle, Dutch-South African author and educator (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (b. 1884)
• 1959 » Frank S. Land, American activist, founded the DeMolay International (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Subroto Mukerjee, Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (b. 1911)
• 1965 » Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (b. 1913)
• 1968 » Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
• 1968 » Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (b. 1914)
• 1970 » Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (b. 1892)

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 30 » MSHans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMSTitanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
• June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
• September 12 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
• 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.
• November 2 » The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
• November 15 » The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.

The temperature on November 8, 1959 was between -3.9 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.