About the day » Tuesday April 12, 1960Calender converter

• Brian Jay de Haan, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2020)
• Harold Dammis Meijnders, Calgary, Canada († 2000)
• Klazina Grootoonk († 2009)
• Beitske Laverman, leeuwarden († 1960)
• N.N. van Hoek, Breda († 1960)
• Julie Ann Baldridge, Vancouver, Clark, Washington († 2013)
• Paul Jacobs, Brunssum († 2020)
• Roman REICHERT († 1960)
• Cindy Lee Batt, Muskegon County, Michigan, United States of America († 1960)
• Pietsje BOOMSMA, Drachten Friesland Netherlands († 2007)

• Aaltje Welner (67)
• Albert Dekker (78), Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Goede (83), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anzonette Davis (78), Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Michels (79), Deurne
• Abeltje VAN KAMMEN (85), Drachten (Smallingerland) Friesland Netherlands
• Amanda Ella Presley (83), DeRidder, Beauregard, Louisiana, United States
• Adriaan van der Ree (89), Dordrecht
• Aagje Diroe (70), Amsterdam
• Aaltien Woltman (79), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1958 » Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgarian hurdler
• 1958 » Klaus Tafelmeier, German javelin thrower
• 1958 » Will Sergeant, English guitarist
• 1959 » Howard Stableford, English radio and television host
• 1961 » Charles Mann, American football player and sportscaster
• 1961 » Corrado Fabi, Italian racing driver
• 1961 » Magda Szubanski, English-Australian actress, comedian and writer
• 1962 » Art Alexakis, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1962 » Carlos Sainz, Spanish racing driver
• 1962 » Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler, founded Hustle

• 1943 » Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Lionel Logue, Australian actor and therapist (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1923)
• 1966 » Sydney Allard, English racing driver and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)
• 1968 » Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and dentist (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Arthur Freed, American songwriter and producer (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Josephine Baker, French actress, activist, and humanitarian (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Philip K. Wrigley, American businessman, co-founded Lincoln Park Gun Club (b. 1894)

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. Hans
16. Johan

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.
• February 13 » With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
• 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 21 » Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
• May 1 » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
• May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
• August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.

The temperature on April 12, 1960 was between 5.2 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.