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• Anna C.M. van Buitenen, Gilze en Rijen († 1960)
• Jannetje (Janna) de Best, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Theodora Hestera Keijzer, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2010)
• Kornelis Harmens de Vries, Terwispel (F)
• Sarina van Stappen († 2001)
• Duwayne Edward Todd ?**** († 2015)
• Janneke Drees († 2022)
• Jane Frances Quinn, Baltimore, Maryland, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Tonnie Duursma († 2012)
• Willem Theodoor Stolker, Amstelveen N.H († 2010)

• Dallas C. Spivey (66), Columbus County, North Carolina
• Bendert Fijma (47), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Curtis Tyler (52), Horry County,South Carolina
• Cornelis Hoogesteger (63), Dordrecht
• Christina Gesina van Zuuk (92), Gorssel
• Adèle Maria Pauline Pion (77), Cluis, 36056, France
• Clark Cummings Cornell (62), San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Roks Rockx (87), Rucphen (Rucphen) (Noord-Brabant)
• Annie ANNA MIKLOS SABOL (74), Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Cornelis Wilhelmus Boon (78), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1956 » Christopher Chessun, English Anglican bishop
• 1957 » David Gill, English businessman
• 1957 » Faith Prince, American actress and singer
• 1957 » Larry Corowa, Australian rugby league player
• 1959 » Pat Smear, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1959 » Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1960 » David Baldacci, American lawyer and author
• 1961 » Athula Samarasekera, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1961 » Janet McTeer, English actress
• 1961 » Tim Wilson, American comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist († 2014)

• 1946 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 » Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1959 » Edgar Guest, English-American journalist and poet (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
• 1964 » Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)

• 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.
• April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
• June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
• August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
• September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
• November 2 » Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

The temperature on August 5, 1959 was between 12.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.