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• Jenny Romsée, Sint-Truiden, België († 1982)
• Regina Rae Pannkuk, fortasse, somewhere in IA or MN († 1960)
• Geertje Bootsma († 1976)
• Johannes Hendericus Smink († 1990)
• Aafke Buwalda, Harlingen, Friesland, Netherlands († 2018)
• Alfons Salm, Den Helder († 2008)
• Henk Andre Korendijk, Veendam († 2016)
• Regina R. Pannkuk († 1960)
• Ludo Victor Willy Vanderstraeten, Hasselt, België († 1998)
• Beryl Greer Jacobs, Asperen

• Alida Willemina Scholtens (82), Groningen
• Artje van Arkel (64), Zoelen
• Cornelia Anna Margaretha Brug (74), Den Haag,-
• Alida Willemina Scholtens (82), Groningen
• Albert Nijhof (60), Musselkanaal, Onstwedde
• Antonie van Oosterhout (78), Vlaardingen
• Arie Den Ouden (76), Alphen aan den Rijn,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne VAN de VELDE (7), Antwerpen, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Anton Peter Theodor van Duren (51), Boxtel, Netherlands
• Benjamin Zook Yoder (76), Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1959 » Allan Little, Scottish journalist and author
• 1959 » Wayne Gardner, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1960 » Curt Ford, American baseball player and manager
• 1960 » Gábor Pölöskei, Hungarian footballer and manager
• 1960 » Nicola Bryant, English actress
• 1960 » Randy Breuer, American basketball player
• 1961 » Neil Buchanan, English guitarist
• 1961 » Steve Young, American football player and sportscaster
• 1962 » Andy McCoy, Finnish musician
• 1962 » Joan Cusack, American actress

• 1958 » Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)
• 1961 » Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
• 1963 » Jean Cocteau, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1965 » Dorothea Lange, American photographer and journalist (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Walther Stampfli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 50th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Stanley Morison, typographer, known for work on Times New Roman font (b. 1889)
• 1968 » Selim Sarper, Turkish educator and politician, 13th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Chesty Puller, American general (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
• 1976 » Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author, screenwriter, and songwriter (b. 1897)

• 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 21 » Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people.
• January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
• February 16 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSTriton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• February 19 » China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
• August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
• October 19 » The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.

The temperature on October 11, 1960 was between 8.3 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 27.1 mm of rain during 11.8 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.