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• Jan Willem Bart, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1959)
• Joke Marion Flipse, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Frans de KOK, Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1991)
• nand van roij, roermond († 2018)
• Jan Gerard Macdaniel, Oestgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Janet Denise Lepley († 1959)
• Jan M.J. Swennen, Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België († 1973)
• John Clark, Lemmon, South Dakota († 2012)
• Cornelis Lodewijkx, Nederhorst den Berg († 1994)
• Hans Blom, 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland († 1959)

• Cornelia Branden van den (82), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Dirkje van der Hout (78), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alex van Mourik (38), Liberia(Liberia)
• Angela Maria Schütte (52), Klazienaveen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abel Hulzebos (92), Nieuwe Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands
• Cornelia van de Branden (82), Halsteren
• Clyde Elizabeth Horn (71)
• Andreas Hubertus Verschaeren (59), Venlo
• Dirk Jacobus BERG, van den (83), Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christiaan Dubber (73), Poortugaal

• 1957 » Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian and actor
• 1957 » Matt Lauer, American television journalist and anchor
• 1958 » Pedro Costa, Portuguese director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
• 1958 » Steven Smith, American engineer and astronaut
• 1959 » Antonio Pappano, English pianist and conductor
• 1959 » Josée Verner, Canadian politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
• 1959 » Kåre Thomsen, Norwegian guitarist and graphic designer
• 1959 » Tracey Ullman, English-American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Richard M. Durbin, English biologist and academic
• 1961 » Douglas Coupland, German-Canadian author and playwright

• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 » Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913)
• 1967 » Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887)
• 1968 » Trygve Lie, Norwegian journalist and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
• 1971 » Jo Cals, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919)

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.
• January 7 » The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
• June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
• July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
• September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
• October 21 » President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.

The temperature on December 30, 1959 was between 5.1 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.