About the day » Wednesday August 12, 1959Calender converter

• Harm Derk Gelderloos, Rijswijk († 2012)
• Alexander Rudolph van der Ley, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dennis Michael Harris († 2000)
• Anna Clasina Verbruggen, Amsterdam († 2006)
• Franky KOEKUYDT, Torhout,8820,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1990)
• Trijntje Dotinga, Gau († 2017)
• LuAnn T Mannion († 2014)
• Anthony Francis (Tony) Froklage, Cambridge Ont Canada († 2016)
• Martien van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Hieke Marie Wijma († 1974)

• Cornelis Adrianus Bernardus (janus) Jansen (83), Tilburg, Nederland
• adrianus heukels (77), eindhoven
• Adriana Johanna Wezenbeek (78), Vught
• Alijda Hendrika Johanna Maria de Beer (39), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Catharina van Gent (86), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Claasje Zacharsdr van Ginhoven (81), Leiden
• Bouke Lingeman (73), Delft, Nederland
• Albertje Dilling (74), Gasselte
• Adolphine Wilhelmina Julie Jeanne Immink (69), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Dilling (74), Gasselte

• 1956 » Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor and producer
• 1956 » Lee Freedman, Australian horse trainer
• 1957 » Amanda Redman, English actress
• 1957 » Friedhelm Schütte, German footballer
• 1958 » Jürgen Dehmel, German bass player and songwriter
• 1959 » Kerry Boustead, Australian rugby league player
• 1960 » Greg Thomas, Welsh-English cricketer
• 1960 » Laurent Fignon, French cyclist and sportscaster († 2010)
• 1961 » Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer
• 1961 » Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboard player, and composer

• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

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 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
• 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 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
• May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
• September 18 » Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
• November 15 » The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.

The temperature on August 12, 1959 was between 14.4 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.