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• Marinus Johannes Elisabeth Maria van Roozendaal, Schijndel († 1977)
• Gerrit Jan Dijkkamp, Vaassen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2007)
• Jacobus Antonie Rang
• Hendrikus Jozef Gerardus Holterman, Raalte († 2014)
• Burgert Christian Kieser († 2018)
• Linda Maria Bernardina Janse, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Roger Joseph Kolkena, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States († 2018)
• Frans Heijnens, Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland († 2005)
• Jeffrey Scott Clark, Garland, Dallas, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1976)
• Josephus Bernardus Maria ter Grefte, Delden, Ambt († 1960)

• Catherine Augusta Slane (80), Dublin, Ireland
• Adrianus Kuivenhoven (67), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Archie Lee BELLOWS (86), Bonham, Texas
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• Charles Ezekiel Pope (86), Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States
• Casparus Adrianus Strates (83), Arnhem (GL)
• Andreas Adrianus van der Ouderaa (59), Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Gloude (75), Zierikzee
• Ada Gesina Bijvank (80), Wildervank
• Benjamin Minus Boers (67), 's Gravenzande

• 1954 » Cho Kwang-rae, South Korean footballer, coach, and manager
• 1955 » Bruce Willis, German-American actor and producer
• 1956 » Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia († 2009)
• 1958 » Andy Reid, American football player and coach
• 1960 » Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1962 » Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican-American baseball player († 2003)
• 1963 » Neil LaBute, American director and screenwriter
• 1964 » Jake Weber, English actor
• 1964 » Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1966 » Michael Crockart, Scottish police officer and politician

• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)
• 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1950 » Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)
• 1976 » Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (b. 1889)
• 1976 » Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 1977 » William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (b. 1888)

• 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 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
• January 30 » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
• May 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• September 14 » Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
• December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.

The temperature on March 19, 1960 was between 0.2 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.