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• Marijke Wagenborg († 1988)
• Rudi VEN, Schoten († 1976)
• Sheryl Renee Snyder, La Grande, Union, Oregon, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Albertus koorneef, de lier Hoofdstraat 144 († 2001)
• Jacqueline Alexandra de Vries, Utrecht († 2008)
• Anita Fokker, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 2015)
• Ronald Jacobus Roos, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Johanna Maria Melinda van Leenen († 2005)
• Wim Tol († 2014)

• Berend DIJKHUIS (84), Losser, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Karel van Rijn (75), Delft
• Vegers (18), Breda
• Anton Lassche (63), Colorado, Verenigde Staten
• Augusta Hendrika van Gulik (34), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aaltje Antonia Meijer (67), Amsterdam
• Aagje van der Tholen (52), Rotterdam
• Barend Blom (32)
• Alida Cornelia Onink (82), Zoelen
• Arnolda den Dijker (58), 's-Gravenhage

• 1958 » Dave Henderson, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2015)
• 1959 » Gene Miles, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1959 » Paul Vautin, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1959 » Reha Muhtar, Turkish journalist
• 1960 » Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter († 1988)
• 1960 » Fritz Walter, German footballer
• 1960 » Veselin Matić, Serbian basketball player and coach
• 1961 » Jim Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 » Morris Iemma, Australian politician, 40th Premier of New South Wales
• 1962 » Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale, English businessman

• 1948 » Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1952 » Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician, president for 45 minutes on February 13, 1913. (b. 1856)
• 1966 » Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Vienna Circle member (b. 1884)
• 1967 » Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1967 » Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (b. 1892)
• 1967 » Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1907)
• 1968 » Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (b. 1945)
• 1970 » Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1972 » Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (b. 1889)

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 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
• April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
• 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.
• July 20 » Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
• August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
• October 4 » An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.

The temperature on July 21, 1960 was between 10.2 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.