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• Maria de Geus († 1960)
• Wim Ross, Zevenaar, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland († 1976)
• Jan de Niet, Scheveningen († 1990)
• Willibrordus Godefridus Maria Wouters, Gilze en Rijen
• Herwig Potvliege, Eeklo († 2015)
• Alfred Michel Elisabeth de Maat, Stoppeldijk, Zeeland, Nederland († 2004)
• Robertus Leonardus Gerardus Muytjens, Rothem († 2009)
• Peter van Engelenburg, Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1990)
• Monique Maria Theodora van Vegten, Breda († 2005)
• Sijtske Aafke Boerema, Aduard († 1995)

• Antonie van PEER (75), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Guit (82), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Dekens (68), Alteveer (Onstwedde-Gr)
• Anna Catharina Bijleveld (64), Hoogeveen, Nederland
• Antje Trijntje Dedert (70), De Lier, Nederland
• Pieter Bastiaan Boertje (68), Dordrecht
• Adrianus Johannes Buschman (60), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Henricus Broekman (23), Utrecht
• Jantje Hoekman (72), Paasloo
• Adriana Meijer (73), Poortugaal

• 1956 » Mark Dantonio, American football player and coach
• 1956 » Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs
• 1958 » Paul MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 » Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 » Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 » Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1961 » Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 » Rick Steiner, American wrestler
• 1963 » Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1963 » Terry Mulholland, American baseball player

• 1937 » Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (b. 1864)
• 1943 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1954 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)

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.
• January 21 » A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
• 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.
• April 26 » Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
• May 1 » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
• August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• September 5 » Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

The temperature on March 9, 1960 was between -2.8 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.