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• Sandra Marie van Gorden († 1965)
• Eric Vanderwyk, Redwood City, California (USA) († 2012)
• Christopher Roy Nugteren, Balclutha, Sth Otago (Nw Zeeland) († 2013)
• Kevin Arthur Lewis, LaGrange, Bloomfield Township, LaGrange, Indiana († 1981)
• Albert Paul Claesen, Diepenbeek, België († 2018)
• Anjo Kerssies († 1991)
• Ronnie Arther Killian, Wash Co († 1988)
• Ronald Schooneveldt, Amsterdam,Noord-Holland,Nederland († 2015)
• Rachid Aït Lahyane Ait Lahyane, Rabat, Maroc († 2021)
• Johan C.B. Bos († 1968)

• Alida Johanna Wagner (92), Haarlem
• Aaltje van Leuveren (67), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin Boeskool (81)
• Andries de Vries * (86), De Wijk
• Charles Jasper Waite (60), Glendale,Arizona,Verenigde Staten
• Alida Johanna Wagner (92), Haarlem, Nederland
• Andries Christiaan Lohr (71), Los Angeles, California. U.S.A
• Antonia Maria Jansen (74), Elst (Gelderland)
• Andries de Vries (86), De Wijk
• Agatha Broers (86), Amsterdam

• 1959 » Joe Jusko, American illustrator and painter
• 1959 » Keith Clearwater, American golfer
• 1959 » Kenny Mayne, American football player and journalist
• 1959 » Mike Duxbury, English footballer
• 1960 » Karl Mecklenburg, American football player
• 1960 » Ralf Außem, German footballer and manager
• 1961 » Boney James, American saxophonist, composer, and producer
• 1961 » Christopher Ferguson, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1961 » Jeremy Farrar, British academic and educator; director of the Wellcome Trust
• 1961 » Pete DeCoursey, American journalist († 2014)

• 1943 » Charles Atangana, Cameroonian ruler (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861)
• 1953 » Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866)
• 1967 » Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1970 » François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Alan Brown, English soldier (b. 1909)
• 1974 » Gerd Neggo, Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)

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. 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. 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.
• January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
• February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
• April 21 » Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
• July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
• August 11 » Chad declares independence.

The temperature on September 1, 1960 was between 10.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.