About the day » Thursday March 24, 1960Calender converter

• Cecile Carina Blokesch, Amsterdam
• Marko Pot († 1998)
• Levenloos Bruin, Den Helder († 1960)
• Hendrikus Johannes Martin Küster, Delden, Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1978)
• Hendricus Gerardus (Henk) Boekhout, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland († 2009)
• Maria Cristina Kleine, Maastricht († 1987)
• Karen Spoelstra († 2022)
• Antje Janna (Anja) Krikken, Drachten, gem. Smallingerland Fr., Nederland († 1967)
• Jesus Enrique MORALES MUÑOZ, Volcan, Chiriqui, República de Panamá († 1984)
• Gunter Everaert, Aalst

• Andrew Falkenberg Scott (74), Remsen, Plymouth County, Iowa
• Arie Chardet (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Aarnout Hamelink (74), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Berendiena Bakker (83), Groningen
• Arie Crama (77), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloysius Josephus Verhaeghe (70), Roeselare
• Berendiena Bakker (83), Groningen, Gemeente Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Raven, Schoonebeek (Dalen), Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Kleine Staarman (47), Tilburg
• Alida Margaretha Klusman (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1959 » Derek Statham, English footballer
• 1959 » Emmit King, American sprinter
• 1959 » Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player
• 1960 » Annabella Sciorra, American actress
• 1960 » Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
• 1960 » Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist
• 1960 » Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model
• 1960 » Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress
• 1960 » Scott Pruett, American race car driver
• 1961 » Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach

• 1946 » Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
• 1950 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Mary of Teck (b. 1867)
• 1962 » Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1962 » Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
• 1968 » Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)
• 1971 » Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)

• 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.
• June 20 » The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
• July 4 » Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
• July 12 » Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
• October 12 » Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
• December 17 » Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.

The temperature on March 24, 1960 was between 2.7 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.