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• Doodgeboren kind Moolenschot, Heumen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1960)
• Jacobus Gerardus Beuken, Soest, Nederland († 1970)
• Reinardus Maria Lensink, Amsterdam († 1960)
• FJ Fred Schoenmakers († 2017)
• Jacoba Johanna van Delft, Leiden († 2006)
• Godelieve Hens († 1962)
• Hendricus Johannes Eduardus Jacobs, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Robert Nelson Young, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Jacobus Gerardus Beuken, Soest († 1970)
• Timothy Robert Mol, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada († 1986)

• Arie Jacobusen de Haan (85), Enschede
• Anna Schakelaar (78), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Luiting (73), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Anthony Edmund Desse (4), Utrecht
• Antonia Petronella Elisabeth Alberts Smit (90), Heemstede, Nederland
• Cornelis Mouwen (77), Roosendaal
• Anthonia Catharina Petronella ZUIJDERVLIET (74), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina de Jong (71)
• Anna Adrianus VAN DER MEER (21), Tjerkwerd (Wûnseradiel) Friesland Netherlands
• Albert Graaf van Aspremont-Lynden (72)

• 1957 » Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
• 1957 » Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
• 1957 » Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
• 1958 » Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
• 1959 » Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
• 1959 » Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
• 1959 » Sarah, Duchess of York
• 1959 » Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 » Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager

• 1955 » Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
• 1958 » Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
• 1959 » Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
• 1960 » Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)
• 1961 » Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1963 » Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
• 1964 » Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
• 1965 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)

• 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 18 » Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
• January 30 » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• June 26 » Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
• 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.

The temperature on October 15, 1960 was between 4.2 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.