About the day » Friday August 12, 1960Calender converter

• Joachim Otto Hendrik Bor, Kesteren († 1964)
• Ida Elisabeth Eggen, Ulestraten († 1989)
• Marianne Jolande Temmingh, Purmerend († 2017)
• Pierre De Buyst († 2020)
• Daniel John Huelse, Waukesha, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Johannes Vinken, Hulsel († 2018)
• Sandra Ray van Boxtel
• Jan Morren, Putten († 2014)
• Levenloos Kleinveld, Den Helder († 1960)
• Jack Broos, Oudenbosch

• Antje Hendriks Hulshoff (80), Surhuisterveen
• Cornelia van der Heijden (44), Downsview, Ottawa, Canada
• Anna Cathrine Rasmussen (76), Alderdomshjemmet, Borre sogn, Prµst² amt
• Adriana Hageman (80), Alkmaar
• Charley Elmer Moore (66), Monroe City, Monroe, Missouri, United States
• Bregje van Noord (84), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Gorter (85), Grootegast
• Cornelis Jan Bazen (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clémence Colette VANDENBROUCKE (69), Tourcoing, 59200, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Berend Gorter (85), Doezum, gem. Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland

• 1957 » Amanda Redman, English actress
• 1957 » Friedhelm Schütte, German footballer
• 1958 » Jürgen Dehmel, German bass player and songwriter
• 1959 » Kerry Boustead, Australian rugby league player
• 1960 » Greg Thomas, Welsh-English cricketer
• 1960 » Laurent Fignon, French cyclist and sportscaster († 2010)
• 1961 » Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer
• 1961 » Roy Hay, English guitarist, keyboard player, and composer
• 1963 » Campbell Newman, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Queensland
• 1963 » Kōji Kitao, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 60th Yokozuna

• 1944 » Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1952 » David Bergelson, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

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. Johan
16. Hans

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 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• May 1 » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
• May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• June 23 » The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
• November 28 » Mauritania becomes independent of France.

The temperature on August 12, 1960 was between 9.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.