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• levenloos geboren kind († 1960)
• Steven A van Deest, Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2017)
• Antonius Adrianus Maria van der Aa, Sittard († 2008)
• NN Welling, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Johan Jacobus Alexander Pietersen, Amsterdam († 1961)
• Maria Florentina Van der Gught, Sint-Niklaas (B)
• Lambertus Johannes Maria Dogge, Gilze en Rijen († 1987)
• Brigitte Quadflieg, Aken
• Meindert LEFFERS, Castro Paraná Brazil († 1986)
• Barbara Elisabeth Flurry, Verenigde Statn († 2011)

• Addie Alberteen Lowery (48), Albertville Marshall Alabama
• Adriaan Corbijn (83), Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Aaltje~Foekes Kuiper (73), Nijegea HAN
• Anne Jans Meintema (75), Twello
• Adriana Johanna Krielen (76), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Catharina Meijer (75)
• Agatha Maria Sophia van Kester (80), Monster
• Adriana Gijsberta Koopman (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Pruitt (53), New Albany
• Arie Kramp (75), Utrecht

• 1959 » George Coupland, Scottish scientist
• 1959 » Hildegard Körner, German runner
• 1959 » Jackie Fox, American bass player
• 1959 » Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Polish physicist and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Poland
• 1959 » Trent Tucker, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1960 » Kim Ki-duk, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Nalo Hopkinson, Jamaican-Canadian author and educator
• 1961 » Freddie Spencer, American motorcycle racer
• 1961 » Mike Keneally, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Mohammad Fouad, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor

• 1950 » Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)
• 1954 » James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1956 » Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906)
• 1959 » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885)
• 1961 » Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
• 1961 » Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1968 » John Steinbeck, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Roy O. Disney, American banker and businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Adolfo Orsi, Italian businessman (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (b. 1904; assassinated)

• 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 19 » Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
• January 21 » A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
• January 28 » The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
• July 11 » To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
• December 1 » Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
• December 15 » Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.

The temperature on December 20, 1960 was between 1.6 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.