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• Wilhelmus Johannes Baarslag, Dalfsen († 1971)
• Johannes Cornelis Noorlander, Arnhem
• Ronald Joseph Casadaban, Abita Springs, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Richard Blank, Emmen († 1960)
• Karen Bianca DENNEBOOM, Velp, Gelderland, Nederland († 2003)
• Elke Theis, Neunkirchen, Duitsland († 1993)
• Roger Lee Chamberlain, Everett, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1960)
• Allen Pete Reitsma († 1965)
• Jeanny Bool, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1991)
• Karen Bianca Denneboom, Velp († 2003)

• "Gaston" Paul Louis Zeller (70), Paris
• Anna Peterdina Knevel (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Pennings (73), Den Dungen
• Annetta Amelia (Amelia Anetta) van den Berg (95), De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Beitske Feijes Hoekstra (85), Driesum, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Henricus Johannes Molkenboer (88), Haarlem (of 10 maart)
• Alberdina Meeuwsen (89), Millingen aan de Rijn
• Arie Adrianus Oranje (65), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Steenwijk (69), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Christana Maria de Rijk (81), Tilburg

• 1958 » Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor
• 1958 » Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer and choreographer
• 1959 » Craig Bellamy, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1959 » Fred Couples, American golfer
• 1959 » Greg Proops, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Jack Wagner, American actor and singer
• 1961 » Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer, and musicologist
• 1961 » Rebecca Stephens, English journalist and mountaineer
• 1962 » Simon Scarrow, Nigerian-English novelist
• 1962 » Tommy Lee, Greek-American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer

• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1966 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1967 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1969 » Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1979 » Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)

• 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 13 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• February 29 » The 5.7M_w  Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir, and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
• March 22 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• April 9 » Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
• August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
• September 2 » The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.

The temperature on October 3, 1960 was between 13.5 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.