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• Berend Jan Gerrit Altena, Ambt Delden († 2009)
• Mayke Horvers, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1959)
• Frans Sapulette († 1993)
• Marion Horvers, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1959)
• Petrus Wilhelmus Gerardus van der Linden, Noordwijkerhout († 2006)
• Angela van der Lans, Lisse († 2015)
• Patrick Vanpoucke († 1995)
• Barbara Lynn Dekker, Sheboygan-Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Julie Thompson
• Alfredo de Barros Nogueira, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2016)

• Anna Barbara Omlo (91), Amsterdam Sint Jacob
• Bontje Tjamke Klaaske ANEMA (62), Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands
• Anna Petronella Haring (84), Hilversum
• Antonie Willem van GENT (64), zoelmond
• Antonie Willem van Gent (64), Zoelmond, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie van Vliet (96), Vinkeveen, Nederland
• Christiaan Brugman (79), Wisch, Gelderland, Nederland
• Augustus de Poorter (81), Hontenisse,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert Homan (82), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Sybrens Jelgersma (86), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1957 » Mark Richards, Australian surfer
• 1957 » Robert Harris, English journalist and author
• 1958 » Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach († 2012)
• 1958 » Rick Bass, American author and environmentalist
• 1958 » Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter († 2014)
• 1959 » Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
• 1959 » Tom Lehman, American golfer
• 1960 » Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach
• 1960 » Jim Spivey, American runner and coach
• 1960 » Joe Carter, American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1947 » Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)
• 1949 » Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Alice B. Toklas, American writer (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)
• 1973 » Lalo Ríos, Mexican actor (b. 1927)
• 1975 » Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)

• 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 16 » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
• April 25 » The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
• July 24 » At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
• September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
• October 2 » Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”
• October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.

The temperature on March 7, 1959 was between 4.3 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.