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• Mathieu Vanderstraeten, Hasselt, België († 1986)
• Johannes Lambertus Maria Weijermars, Wateringen
• Hendrik Mylanus, Assen
• Gerrit Gordijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1965)
• Tanja Lok, Utrecht († 2004)
• theresia maria johanna (annemie) engels, helden-panningen
• Brian Bagshaw († 2008)
• Leendert van Duijn, Noordwijk († 2023)
• Theo Kemna, Albergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1960)
• Stephen Russell Grainger, Eltham, Taranaki, New Zealand († 2018)

• Adriana Elizabeth van Rijn (82), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Albertina Rabello Debieux (73), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• * Thomas Vermeer (89), Apeldoorn
• Annetje Vermeulen (82), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Joannes Carolus van Olphen (53), 's Hertogenbosch
• Anna Maria Vlaming (69), Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Anna Arnold (67), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Brand (67)
• Anna Idzes Schaap (92), Sneek
• Adriana Geertruda Kleijberg (52), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1958 » Chrystine Brouillet, Canadian author
• 1958 » Matthew Ward, American singer-songwriter
• 1958 » Tony McKegney, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 » Adam Boulton, English journalist
• 1959 » Ali Campbell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Brian Propp, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1959 » Hugo Savinovich, Ecuadorian wrestler and sportscaster
• 1959 » Martin Rowson, English author and illustrator
• 1960 » Darrell Green, American football player
• 1960 » Jock Hobbs, New Zealand rugby player († 2012)

• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)
• 1966 » Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and theologian (b. 1929)
• 1966 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish architect and historian (b. 1909)
• 1967 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish air marshal (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1973 » Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)

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 21 » A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
• January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
• July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• August 13 » The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
• November 8 » John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States.
• November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.

The temperature on February 15, 1960 was between 0.1 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.