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• Cornelius H.M. Jacobs, Gilze en Rijen († 1981)
• Ludwig Stroink, Gronau
• Nicolaas Marinus Haasnoot, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Jos Goovaerts, Mol (B), België († 1986)
• James Bockenstedt, Manchester, Delaware County, Iowa († 1989)
• Johannes Laurentius Weinans, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 2002)
• Jane Marie Post
• Mart Lek, sittard, Nederland († 1986)
• Raymond Michael GRIFFIN, Currie, King Island, Tasmania, Australia († 1959)
• Bert Oosterloo, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2019)

• Anna Cornelia van Dulkenraad (80), Den haag
• Andrew Charles Roeser (65), Batavia, Branch, Michigan, United States
• Adriaantje Klaasd van Luijk (86), Rotterdam, zh.nld
• Alfons Janssens (70), Delphi Ontario Canada
• Antje Mensonides (82), Barradeel
• Adrianus Hendricus Weijers (90), Tilburg
• Adriana Cornelia Heijnen (65), Halsteren, N-Br, NL
• Anna Mechtildis Curvers (24), Roosteren, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus van Delft (11)
• Antonius Jan Baptist Cornelius van Oers (78), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1956 » Bill Butler, Scottish educator and politician
• 1957 » Marie-Christine Koundja, Chadian author and diplomat
• 1957 » Paul Reiser, American actor and comedian
• 1958 » Joey Sindelar, American golfer
• 1958 » Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor and stand-up comedian
• 1959 » Martina Cole, English television host and author
• 1960 » Bill Johnson, American skier († 2016)
• 1960 » Laurie Graham, Canadian skier
• 1961 » Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian-American ice hockey player († 1999)
• 1961 » Mike Thackwell, New Zealand racing driver

• 1955 » Harl McDonald, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1956 » Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English author and poet (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Daniil Andreyev, Russian mystic and poet (b. 1906)
• 1959 » John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (b. 1894)
• 1959 » Riccardo Zanella, Italian politician (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Joseph Haas, German composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Aleksandr Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
• 1964 » Nella Larsen, American nurse and author (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)

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.
• February 6 » Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
• February 28 » Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
• April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
• 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 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
• September 18 » Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.

The temperature on March 30, 1959 was between 4.9 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain during 8.7 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.