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• N.N. Tourné, Woerden († 1959)
• Ronaldus Jacobus Maria van Rhee, Venray († 2009)
• Marc Smolders, Sint-Truiden, België († 1959)
• Hendrik Hagen, Nunspeet († 1959)
• Henriette Wesselink, Bemmel († 2010)
• Lizzy-Ann Maschewski, Soest († 2003)
• Patrick Gaetan Karel Maria Graaf du Bus de Warnaffe († 2002)
• Eduard Bos, Woudenberg († 1979)
• Andrey Nikolaevich Gorbunov, Tashkent, Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan († 1996)
• Ronaldus Jacobus Maria van Rhee, Venray († 2009)

• Adriana Johanna van Schreeven (100), Sioux City-Iowa (USA)
• Edze Berend Aukes (87), Buffalo Ctr., Winnebago Co., IA (Dolmage Hosp.)
• Antina Everdina de Vries (74), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Egbertus Antonius Verkleij (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk van Hell (82), Avereest
• Cornelis Jan Hollaar (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria HENDRIKS (87), Eindhoven, Nederland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Clayton Newlin (74)
• Antje Rolaff (73), GOIRLE, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Duurt Hoolsema (69), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1957 » Michael Clayton, Australian golfer
• 1958 » Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football player
• 1958 » Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist († 2019)
• 1958 » Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1958 » Steve Israel, American lawyer and politician
• 1958 » Ted McGinley, American actor
• 1959 » Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
• 1959 » Phil Brown, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1959 » Randy Ferbey, Canadian curler
• 1961 » Harry Enfield, English actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1951 » Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1957 » Piero Carini, Italian race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1960 » Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
• 1964 » Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1964 » Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1899)

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 30 » The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
• February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
• March 28 » The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
• June 20 » A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
• 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.
• August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.

The temperature on May 30, 1959 was between 5.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.