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• Eric Johan Hendriks, Amsterdam
• Maarten Alexander Joseph Reelick, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jan Kees Zantvoort, Hilversum († 1996)
• Leonardus J.M.G. Dortmans, Eindhoven
• Monique Emilie Ghislaine DERYCKERE, Tournai, 57081, Hainaut, Belgique († 2003)
• Timothy Carlson, California († 1978)
• DEBRA THERESE NEVIN, Peddington (Sydney)
• Levenloos van Laere, Den Helder († 1959)
• Arianne Patricia Grossouw, Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Kenneth Lee van Gilst, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2020)

• Aaltje Tuin (66), Wessinghuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Tuin (66), Wessinghuizen, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Cornelia Antje van 't Zelfden (62), Tallulah, Louisiana, VS
• Doetje Stap (64), Wons
• Dirk Kramer Freher (71), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Elzinga (89), Rauwerderhem
• Anna Vrijdag (54), Rotterdam
• Anna Vrijdag (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Noorlander (82), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Goud (75), Zwijndrecht

• 1956 » Karen Barad, American physicist and philosopher
• 1957 » Daniel Day-Lewis, British-Irish actor
• 1957 » Mark Kendall, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1958 » Eve Plumb, American actress
• 1958 » Gary Cohen, American baseball play-by-play announcer
• 1958 » Kevin Moore, English footballer († 2013)
• 1958 » Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
• 1960 » Bill Glasson, American golfer
• 1960 » Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian author and academic
• 1962 » Bruce Driver, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1951 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Kathleen Clarice Groom, Australian-English author and screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Harold Bride, English soldier and operator (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
• 1959 » Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, India-born English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1891)
• 1964 » Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey (b. 1905)
• 1966 » Paula Strasberg, American actress, acting coach, and member of the Communist Party (b. 1909)
• 1966 » William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1967 » J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (b. 1932)

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. David
14. Dirk
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. Jacoba

• 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.
• 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 8 » USSBarbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
• June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
• 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.
• September 12 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
• 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 April 29, 1959 was between 2.1 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.