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• Kevin Lynn HILT († 1960)
• cornelis johannes de PUIJKER, rotterdam († 2013)
• N.N. Blokvoort, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1960)
• Carla Beekelaar, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annie Harsevoort († 1965)
• Elisabeth Philomena Maria Verdegaal, Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Ingrid Bal, Rotterdam († 2001)
• Stephanus de Vos, Harmelen († 2018)
• Marion Wissink († 1960)
• Kenneth John Girard, Holy Cross Hospital Calgary Alberta Canada († 2006)

• * Martina Maria # Snelleman (79), 's Gravenhage
• Dirk van Houten (76), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Hulscher (78), Stellenbosch
• Derk Jan Samson (85), Olst, Olst-Wijhe, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Keij (72), Tiel
• Dirkje Jonkman (69), SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cynthia Ann Thomas (92)
• Carolus Antonius van Rijn (77), Noordwijkerhout
• Aarnout Lambertus Beekman, Zwolle
• Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer (78)

• 1958 » Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver († 1982)
• 1958 » Wade Boggs, American baseball player
• 1959 » Alan Brazil, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1959 » Eileen Davidson, American model and actress
• 1960 » Marieke van Doorn, Dutch field hockey player and coach
• 1960 » Michèle Laroque, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 » Dave McAuley, Irish boxer and sportscaster
• 1961 » Scott Norton, American wrestler
• 1962 » Brad Armstrong, American wrestler († 2012)
• 1962 » Chris Morris, English actor, satirist, director, and producer

• 1941 » Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and physician (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Count Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein, Austrian diplomat
• 1961 » Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
• 1961 » Peyami Safa, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1899)
• 1962 » Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1967 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1925)
• 1971 » Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. John
7. Hendrik
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. Karin
14. Marianne
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 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
• April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
• 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.
• May 16 » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
• May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
• July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.

The temperature on June 15, 1960 was between 6.6 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.