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• Maarten Hendrik Vreeburg, Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Josef Grönniger († 1980)
• N.N. Bartels, Breda († 1960)
• Sandra Lynn Dunning († 1985)
• Hendrik (Henk) de Kreij, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Scott Dale DeGeest, Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, VS († 2012)
• Jolanda Maria Theresia Geurts, Heerlen
• Riemke de Boer, Buitenpost († 2008)
• Gerrit Egbert Altena, Genemuiden († 2015)
• Gonny Heitlager, Waubach, Landgraaf, Limburg, Netherlands († 2017)

• Amy Fiennes Twisleton, Sussex, England
• Abraham van Straalen (61)
• Agatha Maria Gerdina Vermin (86), Wassenaar, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Ruijgrok (74)
• Anna Catharina Laenen (86), Geel, België
• Aaltje Meulendijk (71), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnolda Hendrika Rots (77), Enschede, Nederland
• Adriana Vendrig (53), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Broekhuizen (84), Kantens
• Alphonsus Petrus Nicolaus Godding (54), Borgharen, Limburg, Nederland

• 1959 » Mats Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1959 » Neal Stephenson, American author
• 1960 » Arnaud Desplechin, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Puerto Rico
• 1960 » Mike Gallego, American baseball player and coach
• 1960 » Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran
• 1961 » Alonzo Babers, American runner and pilot
• 1961 » Kate Campbell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish musician, songwriter, and actor
• 1961 » Peter Jackson, New Zealand actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1952 » Chit Hlaing, Burmese lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1960 » H. L. Davis, American author and poet (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877)
• 1963 » Mesut Cemil, Turkish cellist and composer (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1916)
• 1973 » Malek Bennabi, Algerian philosopher and author (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Sachin Dev Burman, Indian composer and singer (b. 1906)
• 1977 » C. B. Colby, American author and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (b. 1905)

• 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 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.
• April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
• June 26 » Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• August 3 » Niger gains independence 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.
• October 29 » An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.

The temperature on October 31, 1960 was between 4.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.