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• Lammert Hijstek, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Vincent Noel Lauer, Kansas City, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Zalm († 1978)
• Lori Jolyn Janssen, Hudson, Lincoln County, South Dakota († 2007)
• Larry Dean de Vries, Eldora, Iowa († 2015)
• Gary Allen Truesdell, Bertha, Todd County, Minnesota, VS († 2009)
• Jeanet Keijzer, Volendam
• Wilma Rosalie van Dam, Amsterdam Noord-Holland Nederland
• Martis, Monnickendam (NH, NLD) († 1960)
• Ron Peereboom († 2008)

• Bernardus Josephus Frazer (67), Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Arij Struijk (79), Rotterdam
• Benedictus Springer (63), Paris, Val-d’Oise, Frankrijk
• Adrianus Timmermans (63), Kruisland, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Aize Uilkes Bruinsma (43)
• Aaltje van der Weide (85), Oosterhesselen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Timmermans (63), Kruisland, Nederland
• Albert Joseph (John) Bissmeyer I (70), Louisville, Jefferson Co., Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Pons (83), Petten, Nederland
• Adriaan Koene (74)

• 1959 » Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian film actor, Producer and Businessman
• 1959 » Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1959 » Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1959 » Ramón Díaz, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1959 » Ray Elgaard, Canadian football player
• 1959 » Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
• 1959 » Stephen Wolfram, English-American physicist and mathematician
• 1959 » Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist
• 1960 » Todd English, American chef and author
• 1960 » Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1946 » Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)
• 1951 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
• 1968 » Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (b. 1881)
• 1971 » Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)

• 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.
• January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
• February 13 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• June 20 » The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
• July 21 » Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government
• November 1 » While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
• November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

The temperature on August 29, 1960 was between 11.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.