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• Aloysius Adrianus Antonius Verdaasdonk, Breda († 2009)
• Iduna Theodora Maria Wilbrink, Leeuwarden
• Toon Remmerswaal († 2014)
• Leslie George Uken, Britt, Hancock County, Iowa († 2020)
• Julie Ann Wozinak, Amherst, Lorain, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Marion An Venlet, Delft,,Netherlands († 1959)
• Ietje Sietsma, Zwartsluis († 2017)
• Joep van der Oord, Purmerend
• Dorene Harthoorn († 1959)
• Anna Maria Veronica VAN DER ZEE, Beverwijk(Noord Holland) († 2007)

• Smit, Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus van Wilgenburg (64), Enkhuizen
• Catharina Elisabeth Dijkshoorn (52), Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacoba van Gemeren (85), Vlaardingen
• adriaantje lena jacoba OPREL (75), klaaswaal
• Annie Pearl Margaret BROOKS (86), Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States
• Catharina Elisabeth Dijkshoorn (52), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacoba van Gemeren (85), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kan (4), Amsterdam
• Catharina Maria Elders (74), Rotterdam

• 1957 » Laura Innes, American actress and director
• 1958 » Angela Bassett, American actress
• 1958 » Diane Dodds, Northern Irish educator and politician
• 1958 » José Luis Clerc, Argentinian tennis player and coach
• 1958 » Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
• 1958 » Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach
• 1959 » Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist and manager
• 1960 » Franz Welser-Möst, Austrian-American conductor and director
• 1960 » Rosita Baltazar, Belizean choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor († 2015)
• 1960 » Timothy Hutton, American actor, producer and director

• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)

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 7 » The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
• April 25 » The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
• June 26 » Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
• 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.
• November 20 » The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.

The temperature on August 16, 1959 was between 6.9 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.