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• Anna Maria Gerharda (Anita) Keller, Olst (Boskamp) († 1962)
• Nicolaas Cornelis Maria van Wijk, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1976)
• Dennis Wayne Kittrell [?? TDI] († 1989)
• Floor de Kok († 1984)
• Nelly Vijfschaft, Scherpenzeel († 1999)
• Robert Blokpoel, Leiden († 1995)
• Leslie "Les" SEELEY († 2016)
• Nicolaas Cornelis Maria van Wijk, Tilburg († 1976)
• Adrianus Gerardus (Aad) van der Poel, Voorhout
• Harko Arend Nieboer, Rijswijk († 1960)

• Aaltje Sotthewes (70), Groningen
• Antoon Oude Munnink (58), Delden, Stad
• Benedito Firmiano de Almeida Prado (68), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Maria Diemeer (76), Bovenkarspel
• Antje de Groot (83), Woerden, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Alida Maria DEKEYSER (78), Gistel
• Adrianus Haring (59), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Johannes van der Valk (80), Naaldwijk
• Adrianus Johannes van der Valk (80), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carl Reuben Glad (63), Chicago, Cook, Illinois

• 1959 » Antonio Pappano, English pianist and conductor
• 1959 » Josée Verner, Canadian politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
• 1959 » Kåre Thomsen, Norwegian guitarist and graphic designer
• 1959 » Tracey Ullman, English-American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Richard M. Durbin, English biologist and academic
• 1961 » Ben Johnson, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter
• 1961 » Bill English, New Zealand farmer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1961 » Charlie Nicholas, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1961 » Douglas Coupland, German-Canadian author and playwright
• 1961 » Sean Hannity, American radio and television host

• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 » Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913)
• 1967 » Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887)
• 1968 » Trygve Lie, Norwegian journalist and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
• 1971 » Jo Cals, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914)
• 1971 » Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919)

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 26 » A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
• 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.
• July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
• October 12 » Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.
• November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.

The temperature on December 30, 1960 was between -1.1 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.