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• Lanny Fey, Dordrecht
• Bertha Klara Wiebes de Boer, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2012)
• Helma, Maria, Elisabeth Lemmens, Wittem,Limburg,Netherlands († 2002)
• Jansieneke Nieboer († 2004)
• † van de Brug, Nijkerk
• Fons BASTIAANS, Asten (NL/NB) († 1996)
• Cornelis Remeeus, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Klaziena Geertruida Sianne Bijsterbosch, Zwolle
• Delbert Elgie, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States († 1984)
• Hermina Gerrie Kolhoop, ypelo

• Albertina Büll (56), Capivari, São Paulo, Brasil
• Arie de Roode (81), Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Duinker (73), Den Helder
• Anita (Annie) J. Klein (67), Melrose Park (Illinois-Usa)
• Antje (Ant) de Jonge (66), Hollandscheveld
• Aaltje van den Heuvel (87), Waalre
• Arthur Louis JOYE (81), Houplines, 59317, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Adriana Catharina Renson (75), 's-Gravenhage (Scheveningen)
• Ammerensje Oostdijk (60), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Catharina Brassé (80), Susteren, Limburg, Nederland

• 1959 » András Petőcz, Hungarian author and poet
• 1959 » Daniela Romo, Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess
• 1959 » Denice Denton, American engineer and academic († 2006)
• 1959 » Frode Fjellheim, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1959 » Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
• 1959 » Jeanette Winterson, English journalist and novelist
• 1959 » Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor
• 1961 » Mark Curry, English television host and actor
• 1961 » Tom Ford, American fashion designer
• 1961 » Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress

• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)
• 1968 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)
• 1969 » Erika Mann, German actress and author (b. 1905)
• 1969 » Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (b. 1884)

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

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.
• May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
• May 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• August 11 » Chad declares independence.
• August 19 » Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
• September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
• September 22 » The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

The temperature on August 27, 1960 was between 12.5 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.