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• Cunera (Cuna) Wilbrink († 2017)
• NN Vos, Utrecht {UT} († 1960)
• Michaël Anna Clemens Nuijten, Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Cornelis Jan Guijt († 2013)
• Michaël Anna Clemens Nuijten, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Cornelis Jan Guijt, Katwijk († 2013)
• Geraldine Alvina Lusk, Ramsey County (Minnesota) († 2020)
• johannes joseph gertrudis marie (hans) geurts, helden-grashoek († 2006)
• Cornelis Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Geert Jacobs, Mortsel, België († 2021)

• Abraham Marinus Jongepier (84), Assen
• Anna Maria Van den Brande (88), Tongerlo, 3960, België
• Carolyn Maxine DELONG (32), Muskegon Muskegon County Michigan U.S.A
• Anna Maria Dijken van (77), Opheusden
• Adriana Dommisse (76), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha Wilhelmina Trimp (81), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Marinus Govers (78), Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Beert van de Streek (61), Waupun, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonia Teunissen (77), Tiel
• Adriana Eduardina Elisabeth Schoevers (75), 's-Gravenhage

• 1957 » Karine Chemla, French historian of mathematics and sinologist
• 1958 » Marina Silva, Brazilian environmentalist and politician
• 1958 » Sherri Martel, American wrestler and manager († 2007)
• 1959 » Andrew Hoy, Australian equestrian rider
• 1959 » Heinz Gunthardt, Swiss tennis player
• 1959 » Mauricio Macri, Argentinian businessman and politician, President of Argentina
• 1960 » Benigno Aquino III, Filipino politician, 15th President of the Philippines
• 1960 » Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 » Vince Neil, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1963 » Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer and politician

• 1956 » Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (b. 1862)
• 1957 » John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1957 » Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1959 » William J. Donovan, American head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
• 1960 » J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911)
• 1963 » George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (b. 1908)
• 1964 » Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1968 » Maurice Maillot, French actor (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1905)

• 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 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
• February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• May 23 » A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
• October 29 » An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
• November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

The temperature on February 8, 1960 was between -7.4 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (90%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.