About the day » Sunday December 20, 1959Calender converter

• Gerarda Maria Wilhelmina van Eijk, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Irving Thomas Busman, Pipestone-MN-USA († 2013)
• Joseph Hubert Hendrikus de VEEN, Schimmert († 1973)
• Albertje Kleine, Almelo († 1981)
• Norma Young, Queensland, Australia († 1992)
• Tineke Pottjewijd, Onderdendam († 2020)
• Graeme Reijnders, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Nanne de HAAN, Sommelsdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ignace Nollet, Nieuwpoort, West-Vlaanderen (B) († 1967)
• Mildred Ana Gibson († 1960)

• Adrianus Alblas (61)
• Carl Wilhelm Anton Kröger (61), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abel DE VRIES (56), Oak Lawn, Illinois
• Aletta Louisa Bakker (55), Hilversum
• Alida Petronella Brederode (79), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jeuster (67), Utrecht
• Catharina Nie (80), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Arnoldina Johanna TOLENAAR (42), Pert, Australia
• André Josef JANSSEN (45), Bergen-op-Zoom,,Noord Brabant,PAYS BAS
• Christine Margretha ROHDE (100), Falkirk, McLean, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten

• 1957 » Billy Bragg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Doug Nordquist, American high jumper
• 1958 » James Thomson, American biologist and academic
• 1959 » George Coupland, Scottish scientist
• 1959 » Hildegard Körner, German runner
• 1959 » Jackie Fox, American bass player
• 1959 » Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Polish physicist and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Poland
• 1959 » Trent Tucker, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1960 » Kim Ki-duk, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaican-Canadian author and educator

• 1950 » Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
• 1954 » James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1956 » Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906)
• 1959 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885)
• 1961 » Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1968 » John Steinbeck, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Roy O. Disney, American banker and businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Adolfo Orsi, Italian businessman (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (b. 1904; assassinated)

• 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.
• February 22 » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
• July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
• 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.
• December 3 » The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.

The temperature on December 20, 1959 was between 7.0 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.