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• Philip James Hoogeveen
• Bruce Alan Wedeking, Charles City, Iowa († 2013)
• Francoise Emile Joubert Westmaas, Curacao/Ned antillen († 2007)
• Peter Adriaan Boissevain, Deventer
• Rob 39 jaar oud. Aelmans, Brunssum († 1999)
• René van der Plas, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• hendrikus hermanus maria (henk) joosten, helden-grashoek
• Lei Segers († 2014)
• Roelien Muis († 2003)
• Agnes Maria van der Ploeg, Woubrugge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)

• Abraham KEIJZER, Ede
• Bastiaantje Blommers (87), Maartensdijk
• Anna Maria Hofstede (77), Schiedam
• Christina van der Breggen (70), Amsterdam
• Annigje de Ruiter (48), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antonio Loch (70), Vargem do Cedro, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Arend Broekman (67), Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Carrie Creasy Stewart (83), Cassopolis, Cass Co., Michigan
• Anna Catharina Peeters (86), Venlo
• Abraham Schol (66), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland

• 1958 » Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor († 2009)
• 1959 » Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian film actor, Producer and Businessman
• 1959 » Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1959 » Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1959 » Ramón Díaz, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1959 » Ray Elgaard, Canadian football player
• 1959 » Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
• 1959 » Stephen Wolfram, English-American physicist and mathematician
• 1959 » Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist

• 1944 » Attik, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)
• 1951 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
• 1971 » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (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.
• 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.
• July 21 » NSSavannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
• August 7 » Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
• September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.

The temperature on August 29, 1959 was between 10.2 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.