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• Eddy Jan Bernard Maria Sommen, Hoogstraten (België) († 1960)
• Klaas Pijlman, Steenwijk
• Roenawati Hevan Kosim († 2008)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1960)
• Wil van Rooij, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2021)
• Joseph NIHON, Visé,4600,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE († 1994)
• Jan Pijlman, Steenwijk († 1960)
• Doodgeboren kind Oudenhuijsen, Breda († 1960)
• Michaël Antonius Elias Paalman, Uden († 1978)
• Ruud Zonneveld, Castricum († 2003)

• Arend Bleecke (72), Rotterdam
• Bertha Carolina Verwer (75), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cecil Raymond Lewis (51), Denver, Colorado
• Arend Bleecke (72), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Allegonda Fleuren (79), Gennep, Nederland
• Beulah Clyde Mercer (58)
• Annegien Bruinewoud (71), Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriaan Jansz Verboom (71), Rijnsburg
• Adelgunda Fleuren (80), Gennep
• * Jacob van Donselaer (69), Bergen

• 1955 » Mamata Banerjee, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
• 1956 » Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German academic and politician, 14th Vice-Chancellor of Germany
• 1958 » Ron Kittle, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 » Nancy Delahunt, Canadian curler
• 1960 » Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer and sportscaster
• 1961 » Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Danny Jackson, American baseball player and manager
• 1962 » Suzy Amis, American actress and model
• 1963 » Jeff Fassero, American baseball player and coach
• 1965 » Vinnie Jones, English/Welsh footballer and actor

• 1951 » Andrei Platonov, Russian journalist and author (b. 1899)
• 1951 » Soh Jaipil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (b. 1864)
• 1952 » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian-Italian physician and activist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician, 46th Governor-General of India (b. 1887)
• 1954 » Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1970 » Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896)
• 1971 » Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)

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. 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.
• January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
• January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
• April 26 » Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
• May 9 » The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
• July 11 » France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
• July 20 » Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.

The temperature on January 5, 1960 was between 2.4 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.