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• Lammert (Gosses) Dam († 1961)
• Kees Tuijp († 2022)
• Johanna Hermine (Hannie) Onvlee, Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Johanna Hermine Onvlee, Schoonebeek († 2008)
• Lammert Dam († 1961)
• Nicolina Maria Regina Hagen († 2007)
• Patrick LAMMENS, Torhout († 2009)
• PASCAL AUGUST DE MEULENAER, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 2008)
• Geertje Rademaker, Baarn († 1965)
• Diana Kieboom, Schiedam

• Antonia Embregts (64), Oudenbosch
• Antonius Dol (77), Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Bernardina Boot (78), 's-Gravenzande
• Adriana Huberdina Gertruda van Tuijl (56), Eindhoven
• Arthur Saye Mawhinney (63), Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
• Anna Hendriks van den BERG (85), Middelstum, Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Alexander Schildmeijer (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus van Liempt (81), Boxtel
• Anges Helen Worland (86), Charleston, Mississippi, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Kuiper (65), Gaastmeer, Friesland, Nederland

• 1958 » Nick Park, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Deborah Estrin, American computer scientist and academic
• 1959 » Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman († 2015)
• 1959 » Stephen Hepburn, English politician
• 1959 » Stephen Muggleton, English computer scientist and engineer
• 1960 » Masahiko Katsuya, Japanese journalist and photographer († 2018)
• 1961 » David Lovering, American drummer
• 1961 » Jonathan Melvoin, American musician († 1996)
• 1961 » Manuel Reuter, German race car driver
• 1962 » Ben Watt, English singer-songwriter, musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter

• 1945 » Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892)
• 1955 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1956 » B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (b. 1891)
• 1961 » Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (b. 1895)
• 1972 » Janet Munro, English actress and singer (b. 1934)
• 1974 » Nikolay Kuznetsov, Soviet naval officer (b. 1904)
• 1976 » João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. John
7. Hendrik
8. Robert
9. Gerrit
10. Ronald
11. Petrus
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Dirk
15. Hans
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Cornelia
5. Anna
6. Yvonne
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Monique
10. Ingrid
11. Anita
12. Jacqueline
13. Karin
14. Marianne
15. Petronella
16. Adriana

• 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 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
• April 1 » The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
• May 13 » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
• August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
• September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

The temperature on December 6, 1960 was between 2.5 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.