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• Melis (Mees) Hazeleger († 2007)
• Vincentius Anna Paulus Grimbergen († 2021)
• Wilhelmus Bloemers, Wamel
• JIMMY DALE COLE, Mishawaka, St Joseph County, Indiana, USA....COMPLETE,Obit († 1959)
• Cynthia Maxine Bonnema († 2019)
• Bea Vrielink († 1990)
• Jacoba Petronella Janssen, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland († 2010)
• Johan Demeester, Aalter,9880,Oost Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,België († 1983)
• Julia GIBBS, Nelson, New Zealand († 1959)
• Gerardus Antonius Marie Webers, Limbricht († 1963)

• Aaltje Ruige (69), Bilthoven
• Alida Margaretha Mank (71), Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Anna Elisabeth van Gerwen (76), Tilburg, Nederland
• Anthonius van Montfoort (76), utrecht
• Adriana de Feijter (75), Zaamslag
• Anna Cornelia Liebregts (86), Haaren, NL
• Aaltje Ruijg (69), Bilthoven, Netherlands
• Aaltje Ruige (69), Bilthoven, Netherlands
• Aaltje Siltjes Ruige (69), De Bilt
• Adrianus van Gastel (53), Roosendaal en Nispen (NL)

• 1956 » John Cowsill, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1956 » Mark Evans, Australian rock bass player
• 1957 » Dito Tsintsadze, Georgian film director and screenwriter
• 1957 » Hossein Dehghan, Iranian general and politician, Iranian Minister of Defense
• 1957 » Mark Dean, American inventor and computer engineer
• 1958 » Ian Woosnam, English-Welsh golfer
• 1958 » Kevin Curren, South African-American tennis player
• 1959 » Larry Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Simone Young, Australian conductor, director, and composer
• 1962 » Jon Bon Jovi, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

• 1946 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1895)
• 1946 » George E. Stewart, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1947 » Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882)
• 1949 » Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (b. 1879)
• 1953 » James Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Selim Sırrı Tarcan, Turkish educator and politician (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Fred Merkle, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)
• 1967 » José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish author and critic (b. 1873)
• 1972 » Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director and producer (b. 1877)

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.
• March 31 » The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
• 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.
• July 1 » Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
• August 3 » Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
• August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

The temperature on March 2, 1959 was between 0.5 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.