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• Marlene Ruth Olivier, Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Jan van Twist, Zwijndrecht († 2006)
• Miranda de Langen
• Ludovicus Jong, Zwaag († 1997)
• Nadine Florentine VANHULLE, Antwerpen, 11002, Antwerpen, Belgique († 1983)
• Hendrika Matilda maria Fleuren, Nijmegen, Nederland († 1959)
• Timothy Allen Werkema († 2010)
• Donna LuAnne Dillon, Burlington († 2019)
• Stanisla Maria Petronella Nicasius BEKX, Heeze(N-Br.)
• Yvonne Antonia Geertruida van Lent, Amsterdam († 2018)

• Charles Félicien VANPEE (63), Gravelines... Hauts de France
• Antonia Maks (71), Bussum, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Bomer (71), Eindhoven
• "Auguste" Joseph Corneille Marie van de Put (70), Anvers, Belgique
• Anne Wopkes (Anne Dewitt) de Wit (93), Chicago, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Mechtildis Peeters (87), Vierlingsbeek
• Bertram Barker Sipley (47), LONDON, ONTARIO
• Alida Antonia Ottolander (87), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina van Exsel (91), Nieuw-Ginneken
• Albertien Lubberink (90), Nieuwe Krim, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1954 » Barbara May Cameron, Native American human rights activist († 2002)
• 1956 » Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet († 2018)
• 1957 » Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 » David Blatt, Israeli-American basketball player and coach
• 1959 » Kwak Jae-yong, South Korean director and screenwriter
• 1959 » Mehbooba Mufti, Indian politician
• 1959 » Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer
• 1960 » Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 » Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler († 1997)
• 1963 » Claude Closky, French contemporary artist

• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)

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 29 » The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
• February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
• February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
• June 20 » A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
• July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
• August 3 » Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.

The temperature on May 22, 1959 was between 11.6 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.