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• Catrien Hamels
• Catharina Maria Johanna van Eekelen, Halsteren,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1983)
• Dieneke Jippes († 2020)
• Luc (Lucas Pieter) Taekema, Amsterdam († 2005)
• Martin Jan de Jong, De Krim († 2021)
• NN Mertens, Den Haag († 1960)
• Stephen Michael "Steve" Caglia, Fresno, Fresno, California, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Cornelis van der Lingen († 1970)
• Mattijssen, Breda
• Reinhard Hakkers, Hardenberg († 1960)

• Bastiaan van Noordennen (70), Schiedam
• Adrianus Snijders (68), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Wilhelmus Bosman (83), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Amélia Augusta Alves (87), Franca, São Paulo, Brasil
• Antonius Wilhelmus Tijhuis (44), Amsterdam
• Caspar Jacob Stuyling de Lange (65), Catania, Italië
• Abraham Bosman (71), Rotterdam
• Aaltje de Graaf (81), Winkel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Langens (57), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles H. Kelly (84), Springfield, Greene County, Missouri

• 1957 » Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician
• 1957 » Joan Benoit, American runner
• 1959 » Mare Winningham, American actress and singer-songwriter
• 1959 » Mitch Webster, American baseball player
• 1960 » Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament
• 1960 » S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan commander and politician († 1998)
• 1961 » Charles Wright, American wrestler
• 1961 » Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1962 » Helga Radtke, German long jumper
• 1962 » Jimmy Hood, Scottish engineer and politician († 2017)

• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)
• 1955 » James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)
• 1955 » Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1956 » H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1961 » George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)
• 1973 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (b. 1891)

• 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.
• April 8 » The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
• July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
• November 3 » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
• November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
• 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 May 16, 1960 was between 9.0 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.