About the day » Thursday December 29, 1960Calender converter

• Janice Kay Ubben († 2017)
• Gilles Richardot († 2017)
• Albert Velten, enter
• Vicente Hoepers, Imaruí, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1961)
• gerarda wilhelmina maria (gerda) houben, helden-grashoek
• NN Dusseljee, Winschoten († 1960)
• Margaretha Geertruida (Margreet) van den Berg, Hoofddorp, Haarlemmermeer († 2019)
• Jantje Klein, Vlagtwedde († 1961)
• Willemina JAGER, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Johanna Maria Apeldoorn, Egmond-Binnen († 1969)

• Clotildis Henrica Maria Van den Broeck (85), Maaseik,, Limburg, België
• Aaron Dean Deutschendorf (20), Clinton, Custer, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Ydes de Vries (95), Jubbega-Schurega, Nederland
• Adolf Karl Albert Grosch (79), Rhede
• Clarisse de Guijtenaere (86), Assenede (Bel)
• Barta Hendrika Boone (69), Nijmegen
• Bernardus Johannes Hofman (84), Amsterdam
• Catharina Ludovic van Vuuren (79), Utrecht, UTR, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Buijs, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne IJdes de Vries (95), Jubbega-Schurega

• 1959 » Ann Demeulemeester, Belgian fashion designer
• 1959 » Keith Crossan, Irish rugby player
• 1959 » Milton Ottey, Jamaican-Canadian high jumper and coach
• 1959 » Patricia Clarkson, American actress
• 1959 » Paula Poundstone, American comedian and author
• 1960 » David Gilbert, Australian cricketer
• 1960 » David Boon, Australian cricketer
• 1960 » Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Congolese militia leader, founded the Union of Congolese Patriots
• 1961 » Jim Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Kevin Granata, American engineer and academic († 2007)

• 1944 » Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel (b. 1910)
• 1949 » Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883)
• 1952 » Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1959 » Robin Milford, English soldier and composer (b. 1903)
• 1960 » Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b. 1862)
• 1967 » Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890)
• 1968 » Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
• 1972 » Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and director (b. 1903)

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.
• January 21 » Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people.
• January 25 » The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
• February 29 » The 5.7M_w  Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir, and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
• May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
• May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
• August 9 » South Kasai secedes from the Congo.

The temperature on December 29, 1960 was between -2.1 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.