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• Jacob Jelle Harmens van der Spoel, Katlijk, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland († 2000)
• Boy HARDMAN († 1961)
• Margot Donkersloot, Heerlen, LI Netherlands († 2017)
• Jolanda Schook, Winterthur († 2017)
• Kirk Ethan Miller († 1987)
• Peter Giljam, Bruinisse († 1984)
• Diana Greefkes († 2009)
• Maria Louise van der Horst, Schoonhoven
• Dorothea Maria Magdalena Kathmann, Rheden, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1985)
• NN Witte, Texel († 1961)

• Anna Zevenhoven (60), Leiden
• Antje de GRIES (47), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alpfonsius Gerardus Antonius Bouwmeester (0), Apeldoorn
• Aaltje Bats (80), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antje de Gries (47), groningen
• Arnoldus Wilhelmus Permentier (72), 's-Gravenhage Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Anthon Johannes Jacobus van Dijk (69), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alfonsius Gerardus Antonius Bouwmeester (0), Apeldoorn
• A.H. Heuten (67)
• Arentje VERSTIJNEN (86), Sommelsdijk

• 1957 » Alan Duncan, English businessman and politician, former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
• 1959 » Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator
• 1961 » Howard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer
• 1961 » Ron Brown, American sprinter and football player
• 1962 » Olli Rehn, Finnish footballer and politician
• 1963 » Paul Mercurio, Australian actor and dancer
• 1964 » Mark Hoban, English accountant and politician
• 1965 » Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer († 2006)
• 1965 » Patty Fendick, American tennis player and coach
• 1965 » Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1944 » Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Frank Findlay, New Zealand banker and politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1950 » Robert Natus, Estonian architect (b. 1890)
• 1952 » Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver and actor (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1970 » Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet Commander during the Winter War and the Eastern Front of World War II (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Paul Strand, American photographer and director (b. 1890)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Peter
4. Cornelis
5. Robert
6. Hendrik
7. John
8. Willem
9. Pieter
10. Gerrit
11. Ronald
12. Paul
13. Michael
14. Petrus
15. Wilhelmus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Yvonne
7. Catharina
8. Karin
9. Jacqueline
10. Wilhelmina
11. Ingrid
12. Monique
13. Adriana
14. Petronella
15. Marianne
16. Anita

• 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 11.6 million citizens.
• February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
• March 1 » United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• March 15 » At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
• April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
• April 23 » Algiers putsch by French generals.
• May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.

The temperature on March 31, 1961 was between 4.7 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.