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• Allan Charles van der Linde († 1990)
• Erik SAUWEN († 2019)
• Jacob Bos, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1960)
• Maria Catharina van Halderen, Rotterdam († 1962)
• Tietje Jacobi, Nijega (Small.) († 2005)
• Raynita Lynn Putney, Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa († 1962)
• Pieter Siebers, Venray († 1999)
• Jacob Van den Oetelaar, Eindhoven
• Johan René (Jos) Pennings, Sinderen († 1984)
• schuurmans renske, rotterdam

• Beth Ann Reeves (4)
• Alida Philipina Jenneke VAN DER BEEK (80), Beekbergen
• Alfons, Hector De Wolf (53), Aalst-Oost Vlaanderen
• Antje Stam (72), Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands
• Antonius Marinus Jansen (81), Gemeente Gendringen, Nederland
• Antonius Pijnenburg (86), Belfeld, NL
• Catharina Jacoba Petronella Van Kalmthout, Roosendaal
• Antoon Jansen (81), Ulft
• Christina Berendina Colenbrander (80), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Polinder (57), Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1957 » Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
• 1958 » Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1958 » Cheryl Chase, American voice actress and singer
• 1958 » Hanford Dixon, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1958 » Konstantin Kinchev, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Rickey Henderson, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 » Michael P. Anderson, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 2003)
• 1959 » Ramdas Athawale, Indian poet and politician
• 1961 » Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian political scientist and politician
• 1962 » Francis Dunnery, English musician

• 1950 » Neil Francis Hawkins, English politician (b. 1903)
• 1952 » Margrethe Mather, American photographer (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1865)
• 1953 » William Haselden, British cartoonist (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Charles Pathé, French record producer, founded Pathé Records (b. 1863)
• 1961 » Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1961 » Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888)
• 1963 » Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)

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

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. Marianne
14. Karin
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 13 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
• June 17 » The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4million for 7million acres (28,000km) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
• November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
• November 28 » Mauritania becomes independent of France.
• December 17 » Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.

The temperature on December 25, 1960 was between 2.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.