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• Hendrikje Hagedoorn, Harderwijk
• Ria Rosez, Hamme
• Sijtske Aafke Boerema, Aduard († 1995)
• Franky Andre Cornelius Louwagie, Poperinge (B), 8970 († 2004)
• Sijtske Aafke Boerema, Aduard († 1995)
• Robertus Leonardus Gerardus Muytjens, Rothem († 2009)
• Willibrordus Godefridus Maria Wouters, Gilze en Rijen
• Wim Ross, Zevenaar,Zevenaar,Gelderland,Nederland († 1976)
• Timothy James Baas, Kalamazoo, Michigan († 1991)
• Maria de Geus († 1960)

• Arnoldus Loermans (80), Beuningen
• Antonius Henricus Broekman (23), Utrecht
• Anna Timmerman (48), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Bijleveld (64), Hoogeveen, Nederland
• Jantje Hoekman (72), Paasloo
• Anna Dekens (68), Alteveer (Onstwedde-Gr)
• Antonius Zaal (87), Amsterdam
• Aafke Jansd Miedema (81), Harlingen, fr.nld
• Adrianus Johannes Buschman (60), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arendina Willemina Slijkhuis (83), Voorst

• 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)

• 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.
• March 9 » Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• September 2 » The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
• November 1 » While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
• November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
• November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.

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.