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• Desireé Christina Maria Kregting, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1999)
• Wilma Burgstede, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1962)
• Christopher Alan, Langley AFB, Hampton, VA († 1960)
• Andries Simon den Os, Delft,Delft,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1960)
• Robert Gerardus Johannes Anthonius van Dissel
• Cornelis Johannes Petrus Maria Duivenvoorde, Noordwijkerhout († 2016)
• Christopher Alan RUE, Langley AFB. Hampton, VA († 1960)
• Kathy Ann Walton, Hunt, Leslein († 2018)
• Jeanette Veronica Strydom, Pretoria, Transvaal, R.S.A. († 2010)
• Robert Branderhorst, Deventer († 2002)

• Alida Hendrica Peereboom (78), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Cornelis Toet (70), Den Haag
• Antonia Leonie Adriana Brouwers (63), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Rienks Bouma (78), Den Helder
• Aaltje Jantje JASPERS (83), Boskoop,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Cornelis Toet (70), 's-Gravenhage
• Axel Röstberg (70), Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• Alice de Limelette (64), Hody, Anthisnes, Belgique
• Aartje Bakker (69), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Bakker (69), Delft

• 1958 » Curt Byrum, American golfer
• 1958 » Terry Butcher, English footballer and manager
• 1958 » Zoran Gajić, Serbian volleyball trainer
• 1959 » Ana Torroja, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1959 » Daniel Léo Simpson, American composer
• 1959 » Hansjörg Kunze, German runner and sportscaster
• 1960 » John Fitzgerald, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1960 » Melvin Turpin, American basketball player († 2010)
• 1960 » Ray Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 » Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager

• 1945 » Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and soldier (b. 1910)
• 1959 » Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (b. 1889)
• 1960 » Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Paul Hindemith, German violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1967 » Katharine McCormick, American biologist and philanthropist (b. 1875)
• 1968 » David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Max Steiner, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1888)

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.
• January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
• February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
• April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
• 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 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
• December 15 » King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.

The temperature on December 28, 1960 was between -1.5 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.