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• Marianne Van Bogaert, Sint-Niklaas († 2002)
• Ad koorneef, dubbeldam († 2006)
• Albertus OVING († 2003)
• Rick Lee Koldenhoven († 2022)
• Gale Carroll Davis, Alexandria, Alexandria City, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Mark Stefanus Maria Dorlandt, Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Geoffrey Ronald KOLOSQUE, Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia († 1961)
• Francisca Kalmijn, Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Stephanus Henricus Maria MEULEMAN, Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2016)
• Jan Polak, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Annie Wagner (42)
• Adrianus Henricus van Noort (83), Noordwijkerhout, ZH, Nederland
• Annie Wagner (42)
• Anna Vogelzang (79), Ripon, San Joaquin, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan Schuurmans (80), Vlijmen
• Adriaan Cornelis Wessels (92), Hilversum
• Bunetha Barbara Adriana Bus (75), 's Gravenhage
• Arendina Kiffen (71), Hengelo
• Auguste Louise Kaufmann (84), Karl-Marx-Stadt
• Adriaan Haeck (86), Bruinisse gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL

• 1958 » Colm Feore, American-Canadian actor
• 1959 » Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1959 » Mark Williams, English actor
• 1959 » Pia Gjellerup, Danish lawyer and politician, Danish Minister of Finance
• 1960 » Collin Raye, American country music singer
• 1960 » Holger Gehrke, German footballer and manager
• 1961 » Andrés Calamaro, Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1961 » Debbi Peterson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1961 » Iain Coucher, English businessman
• 1961 » Roland Orzabal, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1946 » Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)
• 1950 » Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (b. 1888)
• 1951 » Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 » Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 » Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1963 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. John
8. Robert
9. Gerrit
10. Ronald
11. Petrus
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Dirk
15. Johan
16. Hans

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Cornelia
5. Anna
6. Yvonne
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Monique
10. Ingrid
11. Anita
12. Jacqueline
13. Marianne
14. Karin
15. Petronella
16. Adriana

• 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 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 11.4 million citizens.
• February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
• February 19 » China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
• May 24 » Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
• August 19 » Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
• October 19 » The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
• December 16 » A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.

The temperature on August 22, 1960 was between 14.3 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.