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• NN Rozema, Barneveld († 1960)
• Leijten, Reusel (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1978)
• Christine Bouttelgier († 2011)
• Cornelis van Geldorp, 's-Gravenhage
• Didier de BONHOME, Etterbeek (Brussels Gewest) (B) († 1960)
• Cornelia Haring, Westwoud, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Joop Altenburg, Tirns († 2003)
• Katrien Marie Jeanne Cornelia Bots, Veurne
• johannes wilhelmus maria elisabeth fleuren, helden-panningen
• Gary Thomas Revette († 2014)

• Adrianus van Berkel (88), Tilburg
• Anna Wilhelmina Spek van der (28), Rotterdam
• Anja Cornelia Wilhelmina de Bock (3), 's-Gravenhage
• Bart van Roekel (63)
• Adrianus Hendrkus Zandbergen (86), Noordwijk
• Annie Wilhelmina van der Spek (28), Rotterdam
• Agatha Adriana Zorn (85), 's Gravenhage
• Aleida Arendje Hoogers (47), Wezep, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Marinus Ulijn (71), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Kamp (78), Lutjebroek

• 1953 » Philip Anglim, American actor
• 1954 » Wesley Strick, American director and screenwriter
• 1956 » Didier Lockwood, French violinist († 2018)
• 1959 » Roberto Moreno, Brazilian race car driver
• 1960 » Richard Mastracchio, American engineer and astronaut
• 1962 » Sheryl Crow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 » Tammy Baldwin, American lawyer and politician
• 1964 » Ken Shamrock, American martial artist and wrestler
• 1964 » Sarah Palin, American journalist, politician and Governor of Alaska
• 1965 » Vicki Wilson, Australian netball player

• 1947 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
• 1948 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1949 » Axel Munthe, Swedish doctor (b. 1857)
• 1958 » Ernest Jones, Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1879)
• 1963 » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1963 » Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1932)
• 1967 » A. J. Muste, Dutch-American minister and activist (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b. 1889)
• 1973 » J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy colonel and politician, President of Madagascar (b. 1931)

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.
• March 9 » Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
• July 20 » Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
• August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
• October 29 » An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
• December 3 » The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.

The temperature on February 11, 1960 was between -1.0 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.