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• Gino Vergauwen, Beveren-Waas († 2000)
• Laura Lynn Harmon, Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Martin Johan Willem Perels, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2005)
• Alan Richard Kragt, Sleepy Eye, Brown County, Minnesota († 2014)
• Patricia Gwen GRAHAM, Palmerston North, New Zealand († 1968)
• Geert Nieuwenweg, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1960)
• Johanna Kuiper, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Luis Fernando Uribe Villa, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia († 2024)
• Bart Nuijts († 1982)
• Loek Ten Pas, Enschede († 2024)

• Dina Bochane (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bastiaan Johannes ZONNEVELD PIEK (73), Hoornaar
• Dina Lena Vermaat (80), Oostvoorne
• Adriana Kooijman (98), Leiden
• Cornelia Margaretha Clara van Pol (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Chauncey Black Frey (76), Spring Garden, York, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Aleida de Velde Harsenhorst (98), Kampen, Ov, The Netherlands
• Berendina Johanna Kerkhof (84), Hengelo, Netherlands
• Antjer Lippen Lap (61), Kuinre
• Clark Gable (59), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1957 » Jacques Gamblin, French actor
• 1958 » Boris Krivokapić, Serbian author and academic
• 1958 » Marg Helgenberger, American actress
• 1959 » Francis M. Fesmire, American cardiologist and physician († 2014)
• 1959 » Glenda Bailey, English journalist
• 1961 » Frank Bruno, English boxer
• 1962 » Darwyn Cooke, Canadian writer and artist († 2016)
• 1962 » Mani, English bass player
• 1963 » Steve Argüelles, English drummer and producer
• 1963 » William Bonner, Brazilian newscaster, publicist and journalist

• 1947 » Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
• 1956 » Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (b. 1887)
• 1960 » Clark Gable, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1961 » Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882)
• 1964 » Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Edie Sedgwick, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1972 » Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889)
• 1973 » Alan Watts, English-American philosopher, author, and educator (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (b. 1882)

• 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.
• March 5 » Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
• 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.
• July 28 » The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
• September 10 » At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
• October 29 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
• November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.

The temperature on November 16, 1960 was between 4.4 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.